The sisters chat with Jalean Peek, Melannie’s granddaughter and Audrey’s great niece who is 12 years old. They discuss a variety of topics on how a tween navigates the world.
Essential Question: How is fighting for equity in schools a universal struggle?
Sometimes you attend a conference and one of the most powerful takeaways is a connection with someone from another part of the world. When Hope was partnered with Naketa during a pair-share exercise, she knew this was a conversation that needed to be recorded and shared with a wider audience. This week’s episode is truly a GLOBAL conversation. On December 21, Annie braved floods to record in our Tacoma studio. Our amazing guest, Naketa Ikihele woke up bright and early to record with us on her summer vacation (from her car!). Hope tried not to laugh too loudly at 1 am as she recorded in her sister’s dining room in the Philippines.
Naketa Ikihele is a primary school educator, and coach/consultant with Kia Mahira in Auckland, NZ. To start the show, she introduces herself with a traditional opening common in Maori culture that honors her family, tribe, and land. Throughout the episode, we compare NZ and US education systems, specifically focusing on how teachers fight for diversity and equitable educational opportunities for all students. Naketa shares insight into governance and the effort to revitalize cultural pride in indigenous children. She also describes how NZ systems approach challenges such as the recruitment of teachers and supporting vulnerable students. One highlight is when Naketa shares that developing partnerships with parents is starting with a simple question “what do you dream for your child?”
For further study:
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Government program New Zealand Now
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Webber and MacFarlane’s research The Transformative Role of Iwi Knowledge and Genealogy in Maori Student Success
You can follow Naketa’s work by visiting her websiteKia Mahira or on Twitter @Naketa_NZ
Champagne & Real Pain:
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Champagne: 2019 is basically over. Good riddance.
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Real Pain: People comparing Donald Trump’s impeachment trial to Jesus’ trial before Pontius Pilot
Do Your Fudging Homework:
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Hope: read one of the links we posted & make room in your mind
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Annie: learn more about global poverty from the “We Day” website
Last Sunday we recorded the first-ever Nerd Farmer Live episode at the Swiss in downtown Tacoma–if you didn’t make it you missed out. In the conversation, we focused on the most important stories facing the city and the state in the coming year. A special shout out to all the Channel 253 Members that came through.
Cast of Characters:
- Will James, KNKX on homelessness in Tacoma
- Laurie Jinkins, Speaker of the House, on the 2020 State Legislative Session
Speaker Jinkins broke some news that evening, stating one of her first actions this session is going to be to address the situation over Rep. Matt Shea and his involvement with violent, far-right organizations. We’ll have more on that story in the coming year.
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David Fischer, Executive Director of Tacoma Arts Live, sits down to look back at the year in Tacoma arts and then look ahead to First Night! First Night buttons are $14 through December 30 and then $18 on December 31. Kids 11 and under are free.
Links
Yesterday, Channel 253 attended the press conference announcing the sale of Reign FC to Olympique Lyonnais (OL). After the press conference, we huddled in the Mauro Rosales Suite at Estadio Cheney to digest the day’s news.
Disclaimer: I think it’s important that men engage seriously with women’s sports, that said we realize this podcast is three dudes talking about women’s soccer, but we didn’t feel like going “Hey, Megan (Oyster or Rapinoe) you wanna go talk soccer in a suite with us…” like a bunch of creeps.
Cast of Characters:
- Andrew Hammond, Tacoma News Tribune, Flounder B-Team
- Steve Ketelsen, Flounders B-Team
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We had some big news today in Tacoma! Andrew and Steve were pleased to join with the Nerd Farmer Podcast at the official press conference held at #EstadioCheney. Olympique Lyonnais (uh-lim-PEEK lee-yuh-NAY), arguably the best football organization on the planet for equity and quality, have acquired majority ownership in Reign FC. Bill & Theresa Predmore maintain a minor share as well as day-to-day executive operation of the club and the Reign Academy, respectively.
What did the B-Team and the Nerd Farmer think of the festivities today? As Aerosmith used to say (sorry millenials) Just Press Play…
Especial thanks to Aaron Artman and @CaseyCatherwood of @RainiersLand for your welcome and the recording space in the Mauro Rosales Suite on the 2nd Floor.
Also best wishes to cast member Cat Peterson and friend-of-show Tashi Langton for their upcoming bundle of joy, as well as the new addition to the extended Ketelsen family in Olympia.
Regular featured cast:
@AHammTNT Andrew Hammond
@nate_bowling Nathan Bowling (emeritus & occasional)
@podfish Steve Ketelsen
@muffintopmodel Tim Hamilton
@cm_peterson Cat Peterson (hiatus)
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Whether you’ve shopped around for a therapist in a moment of crisis only to find that none in Tacoma are taking new clients, or have struggled to get a family member a bed in a behavioral health hospital, if you’ve bumped up against our mental health care system it’s easy to feel like it’s broken.
We spoke to Hope Sparks president Joe LeRoy, Comprehensive Life Resources CEO Kim Zacher, and The News Tribune columnist Matt Driscoll about the challenges that plague this system, and a few efforts underway to make it easier to access for those in need of help.
We could easily have made six episodes out of this topic, and maybe we will in the future: This is an important conversation.
Links
Pierce County HSRI Report – Revised 2018
Kids Mental Health Pierce County – Statement of Community Needs
Tacoma Pierce County Health Department Health Equity Info & Social Determinants of Health
WA State Behavioral Health Workforce Assessment
Healthcare Workforce Development Recommendations
Help Me Grow Pierce County Data Summary Report
Kids’ Mental Health Pierce County
Elevate Health – Pierce County ACH
Help Me Grow Pierce County
Beacon Health Options – Pierce County Crisis Info
He jumped in front of a train after being turned away by Tacoma’s new psychiatric hospital
The sisters dive into a bunch of topics, including the Peace Queen Documentary to be broadcast on KTBC, the black beauty shop experience, potluck etiquette, Kwanza/Christmas, and Census 2020.
Links
EQ: How should we handle holidays in the classroom, are they uniquely special abroad, and what do we have to be thankful for this year?
We review our generally warm feelings about this time of the year, but acknowledge our very Christian upbringings. We delve into why it’s not okay to force Christmas imagery in the classroom even if you are “properly teaching it” or trying to be “exclusive”. We blame Tom Rademacher for restarting the war on Christmas (aka white middle class women) with this tweet:
If you don’t get the reference, check out this article from Snopes on the history of the struggle.
Annie and I reflect on why so many Americans “need” to compare everything to Christmas (Christian) traditions. Go read Stop Calling Hanukah the Jewish Christmas. Finally we toast (pass out hypothetical cookies) to our dear friends and family. We are free with the goal for all the shady folks making the holidays about consumerism and Elf on a Shelf.
Do Your Fudging Homework:
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Hope: Teaching Tolerance series : anti-bias guide to the holidays
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Annie: make your New Years’ Resolution outwardly focused this year and consider what you can do to make the world a better place. List your favorite social justice causes and dedicate extra attention to them this year.
Zahava Stadler is the Director of Policy for EdBuild. Zahava believes that child poverty and community economic health are at the root of the largest problems facing American public education, and she is excited that EdBuild is refocusing the policy conversation on these fundamental issues.
Zahava leads policy research and analysis at EdBuild. Before joining EdBuild, she worked with the School District of Philadelphia on its strategic planning process, completed an Education Pioneers fellowship at TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project), and conducted graduate research on issues of educational equity, student disadvantage, and school finance. She began her career in education at Innovative Schools, a nonprofit organization in Wilmington, Delaware, working with school districts and charter schools on human capital issues.
Zahava holds master’s degrees in public administration and education policy from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton University.
The Rundown
4:00 What are the borders of school districts and what do they mean for school funding.
7:30 Where does the money come from in different districts?
13:00 How is Vermont doing so well?
21:30 Student Based vs Resourced Based Systems
26:00 School District Secession
28:30 The Memphis Story
The Wind Down
46:30 Watching, Listening, Reading
49:00 Katy Downs Question
The Socials
Twitter @ZahavaEdBuild
Twitter: @EdBuild
Going Further
Fractured: The Accelerating Breakdown of America’s School Districts
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America