Unhinged Collaboration
What ideas about collaboration in K12 education are no longer relevant? How might we reimagine what our teams need and how might we cultivate more inclusive teams in schools?
Episodes
Abby Covert, an information architect, discusses the significance of language and the role of information in our lives. She explains that information is unique to each individual and is the result of data and content processing in our brains. Abby emphasizes the importance of understanding mental models and how they shape our perception of information. She also highlights the role of language in organizations and the need for clari...
Dr. Amanda Rose Villarreal discusses the concept of safe spaces and the limitations of the term. Our conversation introduces the idea of spaces of acceptable risk, where participants are encouraged to take risks and be vulnerable. Villarreal emphasizes the importance of transparent communication and shared responsibility in creating these spaces. They also explore the role of consent in collaboration and creativity, drawing paralle...
Educator and leader, Angeline Aow shares the origin story of WomenEd DE and how her involvement with WomenEd has evolved over the years. She discusses the importance of shifting focus from fixing women to fixing systems and the need for inclusivity and intersectionality in professional learning communities. Angeline also explores the impact of middle age on professional learning and the value of teacher agency and choice. She empha...
Kwame Sarfo-Mensah is our special guest this week. He tells about the origin story of his phenomenal show Identity Talk as well as what he's gained by hosting it.
Chapters:
00:00
The Evolution of Identity Talk
03:27
Creating a Collaborative Space
06:48
Lifting Up Unsung Heroes
10:33
Changing the Way We Approach Conversations
31:43
Podcasting for Personal and Professional Growth
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On today are the co-founders of ODIS. The mission of ODIS is: "Our goal at ODIS is to create a movement within all international schools (not just IB) and the expat community at large to expand the scope of international education beyond current Western values, to be intersectional and inclusive of all marginalised groups."
Co-founders Clara and Xoài explain the history of their collaboration and consider how that history influe...
Tricia shares a bonus episode where she was invited to speak with the new show out this year:
The Benjamin Franklin International School Podcast (BFIS podcast)
This is a small school podcast with a difference. We aim to showcase our school’s future-oriented vision for learning.
Our goal: acting as agents of change in an educational world that must adapt to be ready for a fast-moving now and a fast-moving future. We’ll showcase our ...
NEASC is proud to present this five-part podcast series created by and for educational leaders on themes of key importance including artifici...
Chloé Locatelli is a PhD candidate in the Digital Humanities department at King’s College London. She completed her Gender Studies' Masters with the Erasmus+ Programme at Universidad de Granada and University of Bologna. Her doctoral research looks at constructions of femininity in sextech and their posthuman potential. She is interested in sextech, ‘sex robots’, affi...
In this compelling episode we welcome the insightful Dr. Jin Lee, a scholar whose research transcends boundaries, both geographically and academically. Dr. Lee, whose life weaves through South Korea, the United States, and Australia, along with a profound presence in online spaces, brings a unique perspective to our understanding of media and cultural dynamics.
With a keen focus on marginalized communities, Dr. Lee's work sheds lig...
In this riveting episode, we sit down with the co-host of the groundbreaking podcast, ‘Bot Love’ Anna Oakes. The show has taken the podcasting world by storm, delving deep into the intertwining realms of love, human relationships, and the influence of AI-driven chatbots. But what's the story behind 'Bot Love'? Our guest takes us on a journey back to the podcast's inception, sharing the unexpected twists and revelations they faced w...
Dr Blodgett is a senior researcher in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI (FATE) group at Microsoft Research Montréal. She's broadly interested in examining the social and ethical implications of natural language processing technologies; she developed approaches for anticipating, measuring, and mitigating harms arising from language technologies, focusing on the complexities of language and language technol...
Nicole Pacent is an actress and producer, known for Westworld (2016), Criminal Minds (2005) and Call Me Kat (2021). Nicole was also on the award winning series Anyone But Me, and has been a long time advocate for the LGBTQ+ community through the podcast series The Coming Out Pod.
Fellow fans of Nicole's work can catch her soon in Los Angeles in a new production called Castle in the Sky which is set in Prohibition Era LA, and takin...
Arjun Subramonian is a Computer Science PhD student at UCLA with Prof. Yizhou Sun and Prof. Kai-Wei Chang. My research focuses on inclusive graph machine learning and natural language processing, including fairness, justice, and ethics.
Ready to learn more about them?
Check out more links about Arjun's work
Twitter: @arjunsubgraph
Queer in AI National AI Advisory Committee briefing
Also mentioned at the beginnin...
Welcome to Season Two of the Unhinged Collaboration Podcast, where we dive deep into the intersection of technology, feminism, and meaningful scholarship. In this episode, your co-hosts Tricia and Kathleen sit down with a visionary thinker and trailblazer, Dr. Ketchum, Director of The Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab.
In this captivating conversation, we explore how Dr. Ketchum's perspective on designing spaces and shaping co...
We are coming back on September 1st, and our overarching question hopes to explore the role that technology plays in helping us reimagine collaborative processes.
On this final episode of season one we grapple with an AMAZING question from a listener:
"How do we lead up?"
Resources discussed in the episode:
Persuasion: Part 1 an episode of the Hidden Brain Podcast
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
Join us for a summer of play with Replika, learn more about it here.
Watch our for Season 2 starting this coming September
On this episode of the podcast Deb Mashek, PhD and Kathleen discuss some of this insight inside Dr. Mashek's book: Collabor(h)ate: How to build incredible collaborative relationships at work (even if you’d rather work alone)
Also discussed in this episode is the Mashek Matrix which can be found here.
To learn more about Dr. Mashek, please check out
www.myco.consulting
or connect with her on LInkedIN
Ready to bring a critical lens to your concept of 'niceness'?
"In The Price of Nice, scholars explore Niceness in educational spaces to highlight how this seemingly benign quality reinforces structural inequalities. The chapters show that Niceness functions both as a shield to save educators from having to do the hard work of dismantling inequity and as a disciplining agent for those who attempt or even consider disrupting structur...
On this episode of the podcast we explore the interconnectedness of SEL and DEI with Tamisha Williams. We get a special behind-the-scenes understanding of the work Tamish does, and how her modeling hopes to inspire fellow educators to find sparks of joy throughout their day.
Ready to learn more about our special guest?
Explore resources from Tamisha Williams here.
As mentioned explore her 'Start From Within' series.
On this episode we learn all about the incredible work The Care We Dream of from Dr. Zena Sharman.
Click here to learn more about our guest.
We discuss the values and the story of collaboration behind this text as well as ways to nurture our own imagination.
Learn more about the reading guide that accompanies The Care We Dream of here.
Learn more about Dr. Sharman's other work here.
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