{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fd9a77154-9cf1-47ac-93ee-87af94904576","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Challenging Topics: Where to Begin? - PPD076\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/d9a77154-9cf1-47ac-93ee-87af94904576\"></iframe>","title":"Challenging Topics: Where to Begin? - PPD076","description":"<p>Teaching is not easy for so many reasons. Educating young people can pose many challenges for a multitude of reasons. In this episode, Chris and AJ facilitate a discussion that centers around where to begin when covering challenging topics and having difficult conversations with students.</p><h2><strong>Featured Content</strong></h2><p>On Sunday, June 7, 2020, we hosted a live broadcast on our&nbsp;<a href=\"https://podcastpd.com/youtube\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>YouTube channel</strong></a>&nbsp;to facilitate a conversation about where, to begin with challenging topics and conversations in your school.</p><p>Select Topics:</p><ul><li>Racism</li><li>Curriculum</li><li>How to have conversations with students</li></ul><p>We were joined on-air by the following awesome people who contributed to the conversation:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/_mcfernandez\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Fernandez</a></li><li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/Joshua__Stamper\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Stamper</a></li><li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/SarahSajohnson\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Johnson</a></li><li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/frede52\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Freddy Nunez</a></li><li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/dkreiness\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Kreiness</a></li><li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/ojfade\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fade Ojeikere</a></li><li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/herhymeswithme\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Toney Jackson</a></li><li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/mrsd122\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jill Dobrowansky</a></li><li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/alspiegel\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Al Speigel</a></li></ul><p>Resources:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/10-ways-to-talk-to-students-about-sensitive-issues-in-the-news/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">10 Ways to Talk to Students About Sensitive Issues</a></li><li><a href=\"https://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2020/06/15_classroom_resources_for_discussing_racism_policing_and_protest.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">15 Classroom Resources for Discussing Racism, Policing, and Protest</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/learning/lesson-plans/first-encounters-with-race-and-racism-teaching-ideas-for-classroom-conversations.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">First Encounters With Race and Racism: Teaching Ideas for Classroom Conversations</a></li></ul><h2><strong>What We\u2019re Listening To</strong></h2><ul><li><strong>AJ:</strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/865261916/a-decade-of-watching-black-people-die\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Code Switch (NPR) \u2013 A Decade of Watching Black People Die (5/21/2020)</a>&nbsp;\u2013 The last few weeks have been filled with devastating news \u2014 stories about the police killing black people. At this point, these calamities feel familiar \u2014 so familiar, in fact, that their details have begun to echo each other.</li><li>In July 2014, a cellphone video captured some of Eric Garner\u2019s final words as New York City police officers sat on his head and pinned him to the ground on a sidewalk: \u201cI can\u2019t breathe.\u201d On May 25 of this year, the same words were spoken by George Floyd, who pleaded for release as an officer knelt on his neck and pinned him to the ground on a Minneapolis street.</li><li><strong>Chris:</strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/869046127/american-police\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Throughline (NPR) \u2013 American Police (6/4/2020)</a>&nbsp;\u2013 Black Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an epidemic. A truth many Americans are acknowledging since the murder of George Floyd, as protests have occurred in all fifty states calling for justice on his behalf. But this tension between African American communities and the police has existed for centuries. This week, the origins of American policing and how those origins put violent control of Black Americans at the heart of the system.</li></ul><p><br></p><hr>","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/087de128-b76d-44fb-b940-a581b20938fe/1591799882392-e307864a9ee7e65e7b0c7ece7ab5d30c.jpeg"}