Get to know transformational teacher leaders Marlo Bagsik and Nina Finci in this beautiful conversation and new episode! Co-hosts Shane and Alcine explore with their guests what it means to “choose the margins” of our classrooms as they hear about Marlo and Nina’s development of a districtwide Humanizing instructional framework. Together, they unpack how to create the conditions for belonging as a core domain of Student Agency for students at the margins. And they conclude with a poignant moment of witnessing Marlo’s experience of collaborating with Shane, Sawsan, and Crystal to develop Pedagogies of Voice: Street Data and the Path to Student Agency, the sequel to Street Data which will be on the shelves the first week of August!

For Further Learning:

  • Pre-order your copy of Pedagogies of Voice: Street Data and the Path to Student Agency today HERE
  • Watch this powerful video of educators from across the country sharing their thoughts about about student and teacher agency.
  • Learn more about the Bridge Program, where Nina teaches
  • Learn more about the Youth Legacy Project by Carlos Hagerdon, where Nina first learned about the Heartifacts task
  • Visit your local library or bookstore to find some of Marlo Bagsik + Nina Finci’s favorite books that have help them teach and lead from the heart:
    • Everything We Never Had– Randy Ribay
    • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
    • The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
    • All About Love – bell hooks
    • Community at Work – Sam Kaner
    • Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning – Andratesha Fritzgerald