On today’s show, the National SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) Project. For over 30 years, this unique teacher-led professional development program has cultivated multicultural teaching and learning across the globe and around the U.S. On this episode, we hear the voices of four SEED folk: veteran facilitators and National SEED Staff members Dr. Willa Cofield and Nancy Rucker Livingston, as well as SEED founder Dr. Peggy McIntosh, and Emily Style, who co-directed SEED for its first 25 years. By asking SEED leaders to examine their own school and life experiences while they study classic and contemporary scholarship, the National SEED Project has equipped teachers in 42 U.S. states and 15 other countries to challenge inequitable systems and establish more inclusive classrooms for more than three million students. (Image: my dandelion doodle, inspired by the National SEED Project logo.)
FEATURED GUESTS
Dr. WILLA COFIELD joined SEED in 1989. She has written that the civil rights movement awakened in her a new feeling of personal power and a determination to work for change. She vowed “always to be involved in the effort to liberate the hearts and minds of oppressed people.”
NANCY RUCKER LIVINGSTON joined SEED in 1994, which she compared to “coming home”: “SEED has provided a way for me to stand upon the shoulders of my elders to continue their work of creating a more just and equitable world.”
