Episode Resources:Prudence Carter and Kevin Welner, Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even ChanceCarol Burris and Delia Garrity, Detracking for Excellence and Equity&nbsp;Jeannie Oaks, Keeping Track&nbsp;American Progress report, ​​<a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/closing-advanced-coursework-equity-gaps-students/">Closing Advanced Coursework Equity Gaps for All Students</a>Learning for Justice, <a href="https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/summer-2019/getting-on-the-right-track-how-one-school-stopped-tracking-students">&nbsp;“How one school stopped tracking students”&nbsp;</a>Parent organizations:<a href="http://integratedschools.org/%20Schools">Integrated Schools</a>

Episode 25: Despite the Best Intentions

Over 80% of teachers in the U.S. are white. But most don’t know that their whiteness matters. TWW seeks to move the conversation forward on how to be consciously, intentionally, anti-racist in the classroom. Because &quot;white&quot; does not mean a blank slate. It is a set of assumptions that is the baseline from which everything is judged; it is what passes for normal. This means if you are not white or don’t adhere to those assumptions, you are abnormal or less than. TWW wants to have conversations about those assumptions: what they are, how they impact our students, and how we can confront our assumptions to promote racial literacy.