This is a guest episode from Taking Off the Mask, a podcast that provides men a space to have conversations about life, challenges, joys, heartbreak, dreams, failures, and whatever is ready to be revealed.
Three seventh grade teachers from Cedarbrook Middle School, in Pennsylvania, spent the year recording conversations with students, and turned it into a podcast. Their three episodes are honest, they’re raw, and they capture this scary, uncertain year better than anything else we could have come up with. This is the first episode in the series and it was written and edited by Seventh grade social studies teacher Isaac Stanford.
In this special guest episode from This Teenage Life, students talk about how it feels to do “school” on zoom, what’s working, what isn’t working, and why they want to be able to pursue their own passion projects.
Jean and Alec talk to members of South Central LA’s La Junta Collective about how to point out when colleagues say something harmful, who should be doing that work, and how that helps kids to know they are safe in school.
In this episode, Alec and middle school teacher Jean Catubay interview fellow-middle school teacher Julie Ruble about how she talks to her students about challenging, relevant stuff without anyone getting hurt.
In this episode, Alec talks to LeDerick Horne about what teachers can do to support kids with special educational needs (and their families) in the midst of this craziness.
