86: Developing Anti Racist UDL w/ Tesha Fritzgerald

<p><em>Transcripts can be found via our website, humanrestorationproject.org.</em></p><br><p>In today's conversation we're joined by Tesha Fritzgerald,. Tesha is an urban education expert who currently serves as a district level leader in an urban school district in Ohio. She is a Martha Holding Jennings Foundation Scholar who has a passion for UDL and culturally responsive teaching, which has led her to publishing her recent book, Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success.</p><br><p>I invited Tesha on to talk about pairing UDL and antiracist teaching, with a specific focus on:</p><ul><li>Demanding excellence in progressive, human-centered classrooms.</li><li>Clarifying what UDL actually is.</li><li>Clarifying how UDL and antiracism can coexist, when UDL has been critiqued for upholding a traditionalist lens.</li><li>And actions we can take to build anti-racist, UDL-driven classrooms.</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>GUESTS</h3><p><strong>Tesha Fritzgerald, </strong>an urban education expert who focuses on UDL, culturally responsive teaching, anti-racist teaching, and author of Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success</p><p><br></p><h3>RESOURCES</h3><ul><li><a href="http://castpublishing.org/books-media/antiracism-universal-design-learning/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success</a> by Tesha Fritzgerald</li><li><a href="https://www.buildingblocksofbrilliance.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Building Blocks of Brilliance</a> (Tesha Fritzgerald's website)</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/FritzTesha" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Follow Tesha on Twitter</a>!</li><li><a href="https://longviewoneducation.org/making-room-for-asset-pedagogies/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Article: Making Room for Asset Pedagogies</a> by Benjamin Doxtdator</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>FURTHER LISTENING</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.bradshreffler.com/po