Episode 32: Navigating the “Groan Zone” of Pedagogical Transformation with Marlo Bagsik and Nina Finci

Get to know transformational teacher leaders Marlo Bagsik and Nina Finci in this beautiful conversation and new episode! Co-hosts Shane and Alcine explore with their guests what it means to “choose the margins” of our classrooms as they hear about Marlo and Nina’s development of a districtwide Humanizing instructional framework. Together, they unpack how to create the conditions for belonging as a core domain of Student Agency for students at the margins. And they conclude with a poignant moment of witnessing Marlo’s experience of collaborating with Shane, Sawsan, and Crystal to develop Pedagogies of Voice: Street Data and the Path to Student Agency, the sequel to Street Data which will be on the shelves the first week of August!

 

For Further Learning: 

• Pre-order your copy of Pedagogies of Voice: Street Data and the Path to Student Agency today HERE
• Watch this powerful video of educators from across the country sharing their thoughts about about student and teacher agency.
• Learn more about the Bridge Program, where Nina teaches
• Learn more about the Youth Legacy Project by Carlos Hagerdon, where Nina first learned about the Heartifacts task
• Visit your local library or bookstore to find some of Marlo Bagsik + Nina Finci’s favorite books that have help them teach and lead from the heart:
  • Everything We Never Had- Randy Ribay 
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
  • The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison 
  • All About Love – bell hooks 
  • Community at Work - Sam Kaner
  • Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning – Andratesha Fritzgerald