Podcasts

Explore our collection of podcasts featuring conversations about education, equity, and innovation.

Freedom Friday

It’s Freedom Friday, and you’re still not free, but hopefully you’ll be a bit closer after an hour with Chris Stewart, CEO and Chief Advocate for EdPost, and Sharif El-Mekki, CEO for Center for Black Educator Development.

Building the Black Educator Pipeline

Ed Post and the Center for Black Educator Development combine forces to deliver the essential podcast on developing a strong Black educator pipeline to ensure our students have the representation they deserve.

Always Learning

The podcast where curiosity never retires and knowledge is always in session. Engaging with thinkers, creators, and educators who remind us that our capacity to learn is boundless. Let’s not forget that learning is not confined to youth; it’s a lifelong journey.

Across Colors

Across Colors is a limited series from Ed Post on how parents and educators from across the country are pushing to make schools better and more equal places for children to learn and grow. Hosted by Tanzina Vega.

Teach the Babies

Season one of Teach the Babies with Dr. David J. Johns examines the impact of one arguably among the most consequential Supreme Court cases, Brown vs the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

Ed Post Conversations

We’re tired of the same old ideas in education, and so are you. Our diverse range of guests bring fresh ideas and stories that challenge, surprise and inspire.

School Disrupted

School Disrupted is a ground-breaking podcast by Spelligent that challenges the flaws of the one-size-fits-all education model. Hosted by Toni Barton, this first of its’ kind series features thought-provoking conversations with prominent educators, caregivers, and students to discuss the untold reality of our current schooling system and how it is failing students who don’t “fit in a box” or are unique in ability.

Leader to Leader

In Leader to Leader, host Darryl Cobb, President of the Charter School Growth Fund, sits down with exceptional school leaders from the charter school community, unpacking not only their successes, but also the profound personal stories that compel them to lead.


Recent Podcast Episodes

S2E2: Black Liberatory Education (ft. Ansharaye Hines & Brandon White)

Ansharaye Hines of the Center for Black Educator Development and Brandon White of UnboundEd discuss the LeCount-Catto Curriculum they created and the importance of a Liberatory Education for Black students.

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S2E1: Let’s Celebrate and Elevate Black Teachers! (ft. Dr. Greg Carr)

Dr. Greg Carr joins Shayna Terrell on the Building the Black Educator Pipeline Podcast to discuss #TeacherAppreciationWeek and uplifting Black teachers.

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Episode 41: How Oakland Is Tackling the Reading Crisis (ft. Lakisha Young, Dirk Tillotson, and Kareem Weaver)

Episode 41: How Oakland Is Tackling the Reading Crisis (ft. Lakisha Young, Dirk Tillotson, and Kareem Weaver)

In this episode, you’ll hear from Oakland activists Lakisha Young, Dirk Tillotson, and Kareem Weaver about the Literacy for All campaign, which is describe

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Episode 40: Demanding a Family-Centered Response to Coronavirus (ft. Parent Activists Anise and Yolanda)

In this episode, you’ll hear from Anise Walker and Yolanda Corbett about the state of education in Washington D.C. during COVID-19 and the challenges that

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Episode 39: The Impact of COVID-19 on Latino Families (ft. Lorena Lopera)

In this episode, you’ll hear from Lorena Lopera about why Latino communities are among the hardest hit by COVID-19 and about the steps that need to be take

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Episode 37: Unexpected Homeschool Mom

In this episode, you’ll hear from Lane’s wife, Kerline, about what it has been like to suddenly be a homeschool teacher because of COVID-19. You’ll hear ab

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Episode 36: Getting Free Internet to Families Who Need It Most (ft. Dirk Tillotson)

In this episode, we speak with activist Dirk Tillotson about how, due to a lack of internet access, low income students are being denied an education durin

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Episode 35: Talk Less (ft. Howard Fuller)

Dr. Howard Fuller is a civil rights icon, education reform advocate, and an academic. He is the former superintendant of Milwaulkee Public Schools and a co

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Episode 34: The Secret Shame of Progressive Cities (ft. Chris Stewart)

In this episode, Lane and Ikhlas sit down with Chris Stewart and Tanesha Peeples to discuss the new brightbeam report: The Secret Shame: How America’s Most

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Episode 33: No Country For Black Men (feat. Dr. Kimberly Underwood & Dr. Eddie Moore Jr.)

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Kimberly Underwood and Dr. Eddie Moore Jr. about the lack of black male educators in American classrooms. You’ll learn a

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Episode 32: The Strength To Let Kids Struggle (feat. Dr. Sonja Santelises)

In this episode, we talk to Baltimore City Schools CEO Dr. Sonja Santelises about the phenomenon she calls “educational redlining”. Sonja explains how diff

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Episode 31: Go Yonkers! Go Philly! (feat. Tracy Fray-Oliver & Derek S. Mitchell, Ph.D.)

In this episode, we speak with recipients of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Networks For School Improvement Grants about how they are using the mo

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