Four previous GR Project guests come back to speak openly and directly about how they are thinking about moving forward after the latest Oakland teachers' strike. The group discusses timescales for change, alignment of action to those timescales and how to balance the need to survive with the desire to thrive.…

Paula Mitchell has incorporated hands on learning from the beginning of her 25+ year career as an Oakland educator. Paula believes in fostering equity and providing access to high quality educational STEAM programs to historically underserved and underrepresented populations through a focus on culturally responsive making and authentic inclusion fo…

Stitcher iTunes Google LaShawn Routé Chatmon is the founding Executive Director of the National Equity Project, leading the organization’s transition from the Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools (BayCES). Under her leadership, the National Equity Project has become one of the leading voices in a movement to change the conversation and approach…

iTunes Soundcloud Amber Childress is a marketing techie, public speaker, and community advocate. She was raised in Oakland and has spent the majority of her life in the East Bay, attending Oakland public schools and Mills College. From her school-age years through adulthood, Amber has benefited from programs like Upward Bound, A Better Chance, and …

iTunes Soundcloud Dr. Susie Wise is the founder of the K12 Lab Network at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (a.k.a. the d.school at Stanford). She founded the K12 Lab in 2007 to investigate the role that design thinking could play in the education sector. This work helped catalyze a national movement to use design thinking as an approach to pr…

iTunes Soundcloud In this episode, we talk with Cliff Hong, who has been the Principal of Roosevelt Middle School in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) since the 2010-11 school year. Before that, he worked as an Assistant Principal at Edna Brewer Middle School in OUSD. Cliff taught middle and high school for six years in the South Bronx, Sy…

iTunes Soundcloud Mirella Rangel is a Xicana mother living and working in Oakland, and a daughter of immigrants who organizes for a more connected world where people value themselves, others and the earth. She is currently Director of Community Organizing for GO Public Schools, and has worked for the past 20 years in and around Oakland schools as a…

iTunes Soundcloud Dr. César A. Cruz- From marching 76-straight miles, to hunger striking for 26 days, César has dedicated his life to fighting for justice. He was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México and migrated to the U.S. at a young age with a single mother and grandmother. He grew up in South Central L.A. and moved to the Bay Area to study. Cés…

iTunes Soundcloud Seth Hubbert is the Executive Director of Tech Exchange, a nonprofit that provides equitable technology access and support to the East Bay through refurbishing donated computers. Before joining Tech Exchange, Seth served as an educator for 10 years. Beginning in the classroom as a Teach for America Physics and Chemistry teacher in…

iTunes Soundcloud Claire Shorall, Manager, Computer Science, works on implementing a district-wide vision to ensure Oakland Unified School District's students receive high quality CS education. She supports curricular and teacher professional development and partners with public, private, and nonprofit entities to expand work-based learning and ext…

iTunes Soundcloud Kennan Scott is an urban father, husband, planner and PLTW engineering teacher at West Oakland Middle School. He is laser-focused on creating the next generation of tech leaders and critical thinkers. The Founder of @CODEdAcademy, in this episode, Kennan talks about his own education upbringing, his experience as a black engineer …

iTunes SoundCloud Charles Cole III Strap in and get ready for a non-stop tour of Charles Cole III's life and life's work. Charles focuses on the advancement of all youth of color, but, more specifically black males. This passion comes from his own experiences growing up without proper support. His life's goal is to better the communities he grew up…

Download on iTunes Dr. BRIAN STANLEY Dr. Brian Stanley is an Oakland resident, the Executive Director of the Oakland Public Education Fund and a member of the Oakland Unified School District's Executive Cabinet. In our very first podcast, we speak at length with Brian about a wide range of topics including how the research he did for his Ph.D. info…