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Episode 6: Ross Gay, Nandi Comer, and Playing Games With Students

This episode is all about making space for joy in a classroom by playing games and gathering to cultivate imagination. I tell a story about…

Oct 23, 2021

Episode 6: Ross Gay, Nandi Comer, and Playing Games With Students

Oct 23, 2021

Episode 5: Ross Gay, Visionary Elbows, and The Amazing Aunt Butter

This episode is all about the Black teachers, in school, on the court, at home, who make space for us to become our most complete selves. I…

Aug 13, 2021

Episode 5: Ross Gay, Visionary Elbows, and The Amazing Aunt Butter

Aug 13, 2021

Black Teacher Matters Episode 4

You can’t play your position if you don’t know the game, and that’s why chess is just one of the legacies that was passed down to me and I…

Aug 4, 2021

Black Teacher Matters Episode 4

Aug 4, 2021

Black Teacher Matters Episode 3: Crystal Wilkinson, Making Space, and The Innocence of Black Girls

In this episode of Black Teacher Matters, I tell a story about contending with my own Whiteness to make space for a Black girl in my…

Jan 11, 2021

Black Teacher Matters Episode 3: Crystal Wilkinson, Making Space, and The Innocence of Black Girls

Jan 11, 2021

Alexs Pate, Innocence, and Getting to the Good

Way back in my first year of teaching in 2008, I was having standoffs over handshakes, Barack Obama was just the president-elect, and I…

Dec 18, 2020

Dec 18, 2020

Black Teacher Matters

Have you been lucky enough to have a Black teacher be a part of your education? Looking back on my schooling, I was struck by how many…

Nov 30, 2020

Black Teacher Matters

Nov 30, 2020

Jesus is so Black

Well, how Black is he?

Nov 19, 2016

Jesus is so Black

Nov 19, 2016

Marching for Justice, Keeping Daddy Out of Jail

Leaving the house sometimes, I imagine what it would be like if I never came back. What if the run of good luck that has kept me from the…

Aug 12, 2016

Marching for Justice, Keeping Daddy Out of Jail

Aug 12, 2016

Abdel Shakur

Abdel Shakur

Abdel Shakur is a writer, educator, and advocate for Black teaching excellence. He hosts the Black Teacher Matters podcast.

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