During an educators' meeting in Memphis, KeAsia Norman, a BIPOC educator and aspiring school leader said, “If a school isn’t actively engaged in the community, it’s just another building.” In this special live episode, host Jonathan Santos Silv

Investing in Education’s Future: Elevating BIPOC Educators (S2)

Mar 28th, 2023 57m 30s

Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with Teach for America leaders about the importance of investing in BIPOC educators and the work TFA is doing to remove the barriers that keep them out of the classroom.Changing Course is a podcast from Teach

Bonus

Investing in Native Leadership

Mar 14th, 2023 24m 28s

In this special bonus episode, we hear from guest host Kayla Camacho, a 2014 Teach For America Dallas-Fort Worth alum, and leaders across Teach for America’s network who are innovating culturally relevant methods for recruiting and supporting N

Nuestra Comunidad (Our Community): Elevating BIPOC Educators (S2)

Feb 28th, 2023 44m 40s

Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with Amanda Fernandez, CEO and Founder of Latinos for Education (L4E) in Boston, MA, and Jay Alvarez, a high school educator in Houston, TX, and participant in L4E’s Latinx Teachers’ Fellowship, about the impac

Healed Teachers Heal Students: Elevating BIPOC Educators (S2)

Feb 14th, 2023 44m 34s

Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with Dr. Wenimo Okoya, Founder of Healing Schools Project. Based in Newark, New Jersey, the non-profit intentionally centers the experience of BIPOC educators, believing that when interventions are built around

A Black Man’s Classroom: Elevating BIPOC Educators (S2)

Jan 31st, 2023 42m 42s

Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with leaders and educators from Brothers Liberating Our Communities (BLOC) in Kansas City, Missouri, about making teaching a sustainable career for Black men. Inspired by the work of Sharif El-Mekki from the Ce

Homegrown Leaders: Elevating BIPOC Educators (S2)

Jan 17th, 2023 40m 34s

Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with leaders and educators from Nashville Teacher Residency (NTR) in Nashville, Tennessee, to explore how the next generation of teachers may already be working within our schools.Nashville Teacher Residency

Trailer

Changing Course Season Two: Elevating BIPOC Educators

Jan 3rd, 2023 2m 44s

Changing Course, a podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio, is back with Season Two! Host Jonathan Santos Silva (South Dakota ‘10) will sit down with innovative nonprofits from across the country that are committed to attracting, traini

The Purest Form of Activism: Elevating BIPOC Educators (S2)

Jan 3rd, 2023 38m 57s

Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with leaders and educators from The Center for Black Educator Development in Philadelphia, PA, about how to create safe spaces that value and invest in young Black leaders. The Center is the first teaching acad

Bonus

Introducing: Untextbooked

Dec 14th, 2022 27m 41s

Bonus Episode in Partnership with UnTextbooked: Gavin Scott, currently a Sophomore at Columbia University, interviews Dr. Brenda Child, author of the book Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families 1900-1940 and his Great Aunt Babe. They

Seated at the Table

Jul 5th, 2022 58m 52s

In this special bonus episode, host Jonathan Santos Silva gathers students and educators from season one of Changing Course for a live roundtable discussion about the power of student-staff partnerships, the impact of diversity and authentic cu

Rooted in Relationship

May 17th, 2022 44m 17s

Host Jonathan Santos Silva rounds out the season with a return to his old stomping grounds in South Dakota, where he speaks with staff and students at Todd County Middle School about how practices from Lakota culture help foster an inclusive en

Better Together

May 3rd, 2022 48m 11s

Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with staff and student activists from West High School in Denver, CO, about how they mobilized to successfully reunite their school years after it was split in two.Changing Course is a new podcast from Teach F

Young Changemakers

Apr 19th, 2022 37m 4s

Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with the students and leaders of Kendall-Whittier Elementary in Tulsa, OK, about how students in the Tulsa Changemakers program are finding their voice and learning skills that are helping them make change in t

Culture, Community, and Care

Apr 5th, 2022 46m 13s

Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with the students and leaders of DreamHouse ‘Ewa Beach in Kapolei, HI, about how leadership engagement begins with embracing your identity as an individual and a community. Changing Course is a new podcast from

The Gift of Unlearning

Mar 22nd, 2022 45m 20s

Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with students and educators at The MET School in Providence, Rhode Island, about how designing a curriculum around a student’s unique passions and unlearning traditional academic expectations helps every studen

Microschool, Major Changes

Mar 8th, 2022 36m 58s

Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with the students and leaders of North-Phillips School of Innovation in Tarboro, N.C., about what it looks like to partner with and design a school based on the needs of its most important stakeholders: the stu

Trailer

Introducing: Changing Course

Feb 22nd, 2022 2m 41s

Introducing Changing Course, a new podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio. Host Jonathan Santos Silva will bring you conversations from six schools across the country that are reinventing education with students at the center. Each epi