The LEARN Framework Podcast

By: Dr. Dwayne D. Williams
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  • Summary

  • Thousands of educators across the country read popular books on culturally responsive teaching and attend hours of training on the topic, yet cannot design culturally meaningful practices. This happens because most books and training materials focus on theories related to White privilege, social justice, implicit bias, and other concepts–but fail to teach educators how to design and redesign their instructional practices in culturally meaningful ways. Unlike these resources, The LEARN Framework Podcast provides practical steps for stakeholders who have goals to create culturally meaningful practices but need help figuring out where to start. The primary tool we use to coach educators through the design process is the LEARN framework, which comprises five action steps to develop culturally meaningful activities. In this podcast, school psychologist and host Dr. Dwayne D. Williams shares five steps to designing culturally meaningful practices, essential tools to design and redesign instructional activities in culturally meaningful ways, and examples of culturally meaningful evidence-based activities any teacher can employ in any classroom. Dr. Williams also interviews teachers and administrators applying LEARN’s five design principles to illustrate the design process.
    2023 - 2024 The LEARN Framework Podcast
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  • The #1 Most Effective Activity For Reviving Equity and Culturally Responsive Teaching

    The #1 Most Effective Activity For Reviving Equity and Culturally Responsive Teaching
    Mar 6 2024

    In this episode, Dr. Williams reveals the #1 activity equity coaches and directors can employ to revive equity and culturally responsive teaching in their buildings!
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    30 mins
  • A Need for Revival: Reviving Equity and Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Classroom

    A Need for Revival: Reviving Equity and Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Classroom
    Jan 17 2024
    In this episode, we introduce our new and first podcast series–The Need for Revival: Reviving Equity and Culturally Responsive Teaching in Schools. In 2020, when Derick Chauvin murdered George Floyd, school districts responded by hiring equity coaches, providing antiracism training, and offering strategies for culturally responsive teaching. Inspired to take action, many educators joined Facebook groups and other social media platforms aimed at designing culturally meaningful and equitable practices. Motivated by the time, educators worked during the summer on equity efforts without pay to prepare for the school year. Now, in 2024, school districts cannot pay some teachers enough to engage with equity work; some educational leaders have decided not to use the word “equity” in their language as a strategy to get teachers to attend meetings related to diversity, equity, and inclusion; and teachers who were fired up to engage with equity and culturally responsive teaching in 2020 now work in isolation in their classrooms apart from equity teams and communities. What has happened since 2020? What has caused teachers to become jaded with equity efforts? In this podcast episode, I discuss what happened. I introduce our first podcast series aimed at helping equity directors, coaches, and leaders, in general, revive equity efforts in their buildings. If you want to enhance your equity efforts in your building, you DO NOT want to miss this series! Learn how this series will help you revive equity and culturally responsive teaching in your buildings. We need a real revival!
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    23 mins
  • The #1 Contradiction Educators Experience With Culturally Responsive Teaching

    The #1 Contradiction Educators Experience With Culturally Responsive Teaching
    Nov 2 2023

    What is the #1 problem educators experience with culturally responsive teaching–the #1 contradiction that prevents us from designing culturally meaningful practices? 

    In this podcast episode (less than 10 minutes), I reveal the #1 problem, the #1 contradiction that prevents educators from designing culturally meaningful activities. I explore why the problem exists, then I share how The LEARN Framework transforms this problem. 

    If you are a K-12 educator, you have–

    • experienced this problem, 
    • know colleagues who have experienced the problem, and 
    • have friends who have discontinued “the work” because of the problem. 

    In fact, you may have discontinued equity work because of the problem. 

    Check out the podcast and reflect on whether you have experienced this problem–or if you are currently experiencing the problem. If you provide professional development on culturally responsive teaching and equity, consider how this problem burns educators out. Pause and reflect on how to transform this problem so that educators can start designing culturally meaningful activities with confidence. Consider how the LEARN framework is  key to transforming the #1 problem that prevents us from designing culturally meaningful practices!
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    10 mins

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