Episode 16: How to Avoid “Pacing for Privilege” Detours featuring Dr. Elizabeth Denevi

Episode 16: Avoiding “Pacing for Privilege” Detours featuring Elizabeth Denevi

This episode offers a conversation with educator and advocate, Dr. Elizabeth Denevi about capturing the energy of last year's racial reckoning as we move into 2021. With students returning to school for the second semester of mostly online learning, the challenge of maintaining momentum for meaningful change in our school communities is real. Denevi is a founder of Teaching While White, a resource center focused on anti-racist teaching and learning.

Denevi unpacks the ways institutions often derail good intentions with "pacing for privilege" and other practices that may not be recognized as racist.

She explains how acknowledging and addressing harms to students, attempting truth and reconciliation and even securing Black families' donor dollars (often left on the table) by creating giving circles are all strategies that can benefit schools by turning anti-racist intentions into actions.

SHOW NOTES

To find out more about Elizabeth Denevi’s work visit Teaching While White

Read more about “Avoiding Racial Equity Detours” in Pacing for Privilege by Paul Gorski

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