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Time for Teachership with Lindsay Lyons, Episode 197

In this episode, we explore how educators can rethink systems, reclaim joy, and design learning experiences that center humanity, purpose, and possibility. This conversation invites us to move beyond compliance and toward meaningful, liberatory practice—inside and outside the classroom.

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Leading Equity Podcast with Sheldon L. Eakins

In this episode, we dive into a powerful conversation on education, leadership, and reimagining systems in ways that center humanity, purpose, and community. This dialogue challenges us to think differently—and act more intentionally.

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Why Knowledge Matters Podcast with Yanik K. Mueller

In this episode, we explore how place-based learning deepens student engagement, honors local culture, and strengthens community connections. This conversation highlights how learning rooted in place transforms classrooms into spaces of relevance, belonging, and real-world impact.

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Have a Life Teaching Podcast with John Shembari

This episode explores how place-based learning can be intentionally used to connect curriculum to local history, community knowledge, and real-world contexts. Through practical examples and educator insight, the conversation highlights how grounding learning in place increases relevance, student voice, and meaningful engagement.

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Videos

“Education is reparation. This is how we amend these prejudices.” - Dr. Ibrahima Seck, Director of Research for the Whitney Plantation Museum

This video highlights a powerful educator learning experience at the Whitney Plantation, where teachers partnered with PBLPath to deepen historical understanding of slavery in Louisiana and design meaningful, standards-aligned place-based learning projects. Through firsthand engagement with history, educators explored how the past informs present systems and shaped project ideas that center student voice, community impact, and future storytelling.

Kuleana Eval (SD)

A quick snapshot of Kuleana in San Diego—capturing key moments, reflections, and takeaways from the experience in the field. Short, real, and focused on what worked and what was learned.

People Like Me - Kaimuki High School

A focused field-based evaluation capturing key insights, learning moments, and reflections from the Kuleana experience—grounded in place, practice, and real-time observation.

Having the Hard Conversations Around Equity

A concise field-based evaluation highlighting learning moments, observations, and reflections from the Kuleana experience, grounded in place and practice.

Integrating Curriculum Around Social Justice – English and U.S. History

This video showcases practical ways to integrate social justice themes into English and U.S. History curriculum, offering real examples, reflections, and strategies to make learning more relevant, equitable, and impactful.

Connecting Math to a Community Concept

This video demonstrates how math learning can be linked directly to community contexts, showing real teaching strategies that make abstract concepts meaningful and relevant for students. It highlights authentic connections between mathematics and place-based understanding.

A New War, A New World: Today

This video presents a powerful student-created reflection on global conflict and context, offering insight into how young voices grapple with contemporary issues and connect them to learning and meaning.

Connecting Curriculum to Community Assets

This video showcases how educators connect curriculum to local community assets, highlighting place-based learning practices that deepen relevance, student engagement, and real-world application.

Restoring the Land - Integrated Science

This video explores how engaging with history goes beyond passive viewing, highlighting the importance of active reflection and deeper learning to meaningfully connect the past with present experience.

Striving for Social Justice - Humanities

This video captures students engaging critically with history and place, demonstrating how inquiry, reflection, and real-world context deepen understanding and student voice in learning.

More Than That

This video was created by Lakota students at Todd County High School on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation to challenge harmful stereotypes about Native Americans perpetuated by a national news report. Titled More Than That, the student-led project gained over a million YouTube views and led to the students speaking nationally about reclaiming their narrative through storytelling.

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