About this episode

Dr. Jabari Mahiri discusses the importance of cultivating teacher voice with Dr. Lora Bartlett, focusing on the challenges faced by the teaching profession in a post-COVID world.

Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/4z5d77bu In this episode of Equity Leadership Now!, host Dr. Jabari Mahiri speaks with Dr. Lora Bartlett, Associate Professor of Education at UC Santa Cruz, about the new book Going the Distance: The Teaching Profession in a Post-COVID World, co-authored with Allison Thompson, Judith Warren-Little, and Riley Collins. Dr. Bartlett highlights that the teaching profession was already in crisis before the pandemic and the arrival of COVID-19 acted as a form of "the...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Jabari Mahiri

Guest: Dr. Lora Bartlett

Topics covered

• teacher voice
• education crisis
• post-COVID teaching
• equity in education
• teacher profession

Keywords

• teacher voice
• education
• COVID-19
• teaching profession
• equity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UC Santa Cruz

Books & works: Going the Distance: The Teaching Profession in a Post-COVID World

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