{"id":1097,"date":"2021-03-23T09:55:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T13:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2021-03-30T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:22:37","slug":"40-addressing-anti-black-racism-in-education-with-alexis-dawson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2021\/03\/23\/40-addressing-anti-black-racism-in-education-with-alexis-dawson\/","title":{"rendered":"50. Addressing anti-Black racism in education with Alexis Dawson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How might we learn from the recent human rights annual report published by the TDSB? Today on the show I speak with education activist and parent advocate Alexis Dawson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the recent<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdsb.on.ca\/Portals\/0\/docs\/HRO%20Report_March%202021.pdf\"> TDSB Human Rights Report<\/a> revealed that \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">race or race related grounds is the most frequent ground of complaint received by the Human Rights Office making up 54% of all complaints,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexis Dawson was an obvious person I wanted to talk to. She is the current Community Co-Chair of the Black Student Achievement Community Advisory Committee, she is a school council co-chair at her children\u2019s school, the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former TDSB Ward 9 Trustee, a DEI consultant, and an all around thought leader in our community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We speak to the data in this report that shows \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that students who self-identify as being Black, Indigenous and Indigenous Spirituality practicing students and gender non-conforming students are much less inclined to feel that school rules are applied to them fairly,\u201d (p. 5) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and we go beyond this document to better understand recent moments Alexis has personally experienced that highlight the importance of dismantling anti-Black racism and hatred in all its forms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a powerful, honest, and important conversation about the present tense, but also the future of our schools. Please welcome to the show Alexis Dawson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Things Mentioned in this Episode:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexisDawsonTO\">Alexis Dawson on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdsb.on.ca\/Portals\/0\/docs\/HRO%20Report_March%202021.pdf\">TDSB Human Rights Report 2018-2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1HTeDDNGqiNe7z3nUVO6pFsF1NwiFDluL\/view?usp=sharing\">BSACAC Expression of Interest Form<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How might we learn from the recent human rights annual report published by the TDSB? Today on the show I speak with education activist and parent advocate Alexis Dawson.\u00a0 When the recent TDSB Human Rights Report revealed that \u201crace or race related grounds is the most frequent ground of complaint received by the Human Rights &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2021\/03\/23\/40-addressing-anti-black-racism-in-education-with-alexis-dawson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;50. Addressing anti-Black racism in education with Alexis Dawson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":1098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teaching-tomorrow-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}