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Empowerment Starts Here

Oct 31, 2017

In this episode (Ep12), Empowerment Starts Here with Angela Dye (the host). With the Case of the Social Change Organization, Angela offers a 4-part construct for organizations promoting social change. She reasons that organizations committed to social change should have a clear and active aim, should be treated as a...


Oct 24, 2017

In this episode, the informant takes a look at what it means to know. Mary Diez looks at the actual nature of knowing and the conscious role of the learner as the knower.
She explores schooling as a warehouse for children, where we focus more on managing students based on grade levels and she talks about the readiness...


Oct 17, 2017

In this episode (Ep10), Empowerment Starts Here with Dr. Paul Thomas in the Case of Critical Literacy.

As you listen, you will hear Dr. Thomas interrogate the difference between intention and impact as relating to messages we speak. You will also hear him question the joys that come from traditional rhetoric and the...


Oct 10, 2017

In this episode, Empowerment Starts Here with Peter Anderson.  In it, Peter talks about why he went gradeless; what he learned about the schooling industry once grades were removed from his practice; and how his gradelessness revealed his whiteness and his protected place of power in an inequitable world.

At the close of...


Oct 3, 2017

In three segments, the host (flying solo) talks about authentic leadership. First, she explains the inspiration to authentic leadership as a concept. Next, she provides a concrete construct for authentic leadership as well as speaks passionately about what it is not (taking a jab at false revolutionary workers)....