86: Developing Anti Racist UDL w/ Tesha Fritzgerald

Human Restoration Project

Transcripts can be found via our website, humanrestorationproject.org.

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.

I invited Tesha on to talk about pairing UDL and antiracist teaching, with a specific focus on:

• Demanding excellence in progressive, human-centered classrooms.
• Clarifying what UDL actually is.
• Clarifying how UDL and antiracism can coexist, when UDL has been critiqued for upholding a traditionalist lens.
• And actions we can take to build anti-racist, UDL-driven classrooms.

GUESTS

Tesha Fritzgerald, 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

RESOURCES

• Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success by Tesha Fritzgerald
• Building Blocks of Brilliance (Tesha Fritzgerald's website)
• Follow Tesha on Twitter!
• Article: Making Room for Asset Pedagogies by Benjamin Doxtdator

FURTHER LISTENING

• Planning Period Podcast - Episode 147: Tesha Fritzgerald
• 73: School and the Carceral Network w/ Dr. Connie Wun

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