As the summer winds down and millions of students return to school, “History. Culture. Trauma.” podcast hosts Ingrid Cockhren, PACEs Connection CEO, and Mathew Portell, director of communities, continue with their series of education-related podcasts.
This Thursday’s encore edition features Anthony Conwright, a writer and long-time educator who has focused on humanities, critical race theory, Juneteenth, and giving students voice and choice in the classroom.
“In recent years, COVID-19, school shootings, the identity of LGBTQIA+ students, institutional racism, critical race theory, teacher burnout and parent's rights have transformed America's schools into traumatizing places and cultural battlegrounds. As a result, students, teachers and administrators are experiencing poor mental health, traumatic stress and burnout,” said Cockhren.
To determine how our nation's schools have come to this point and what they can do about it, Cockhren and Portell discuss the school experience of parents, students, teachers and administrators from a trauma-informed perspective. Podcasts in this series will focus on a variety of topics, including historical trauma and solutions for the problems that the education community is grappling with.
As a journalist and reporter, Conwright has contributed essays to the Huffington Post and other outlets, including The Nation, The New Republic, and Mother Jones.
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