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Thursday, December 10, 2020

NASN School Nurse Chat: Supporting Grieving Students

 
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This week: NASN Executive Director Donna Mazyck discusses support for grieving students along with Michaeleen Burns, Chief Clinical Officer of Judi’s House, and Elizabeth McDermott, school nurse at Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C

About the NASN School Nurse Chat podcast:

The NASN School Nurse Chat, a podcast hosted by NASN Executive Director Donna Mazyck, highlights timely student and school health topics of interest to school nurses and other professionals focused on student health and well-being. For more information about the NASN School Nurse Chat podcast, contact Jon Lemich, NASN Grants and External Partners Coordinator, jlemich@nasn.org.

Thursday, October 15, 2020

RJN! discusses Racism in Kentucky, Brianna Taylor, and Education Justice with Jecorey Arthur

 
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This week: Jecorey Arthur is the youngest elected official in the history of the Louisville Kentucky city council. Racial Justice NOW! sits down with Jecorey to discuss racism, politics, and his work as an educator and musician.

About the NO JUSTICE NO PEACE:

The No Justice No Peace Podcast is about all things related to the ‘Education Justice Movement’, including school policing, culturally relevant curriculum, racial disparities in suspensions/expulsions, grassroots organizing, advocacy, policy change etc. The host is Racial Justice NOW! Executive Director, H.A. Jabar and features guests from around the nation and world. Racial Justice NOW! is dedicated to eliminating institutional and systemic anti-Black racism and has led numerous successful campaigns in the state of Ohio and in the DMV (D.C., Maryland, Virginia).

About Racial Justice NOW!:

RJN is a community based, grassroots org led by parents pushing back on dehumanization in education. Led by @hajabar #BlackParentsUNITE For more information check out: http://www.rjnohio.org/

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Montgomery County Maryland Considers removal of SRO Program

 
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This week: Racial Justice NOW! DMV Project Director, Carolyn Lowery, interviews Montgomery County, MD Councilman Will Jawando who supports removal of SROs from the school district. Jawando is a leader of police reform and outspoken on the need for policing changes.

About the NO JUSTICE NO PEACE:

The No Justice No Peace Podcast is about all things related to the ‘Education Justice Movement’, including school policing, culturally relevant curriculum, racial disparities in suspensions/expulsions, grassroots organizing, advocacy, policy change etc. The host is Racial Justice NOW! Executive Director, H.A. Jabar and features guests from around the nation and world. Racial Justice NOW! is dedicated to eliminating institutional and systemic anti-Black racism and has led numerous successful campaigns in the state of Ohio and in the DMV (D.C., Maryland, Virginia).

About Racial Justice NOW!:

RJN is a community based, grassroots org led by parents pushing back on dehumanization in education. Led by @hajabar #BlackParentsUNITE For more information check out: http://www.rjnohio.org/

Thursday, October 1, 2020

NASN School Nurse Chat: Mypoia – Screening and Referral

 
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This week: NASN Executive Director Donna Mazyck speaks with past NASN president and Delaware school nurse Beth Mattey and optometrist Dr. Michele Andrews about the school nurse role in vision screening, identification of myopia in students, and referral.

About the NASN School Nurse Chat podcast:

The NASN School Nurse Chat, a podcast hosted by NASN Executive Director Donna Mazyck, highlights timely student and school health topics of interest to school nurses and other professionals focused on student health and well-being. For more information about the NASN School Nurse Chat podcast, contact Margaret Cellucci, NASN Director of Communications at mcellucci@nasn.org.

Saturday, August 22, 2020

Question and Answer with new RJN! DMV Project Director Carolyn Lowery


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This week: Carolyn Lowery gives insights during a question and answer session about her 20 years of experience in organizing, advocacy and policy change. She shares insights from her past work and her plans for the work she currently leads in the Washington, D.C. metro area.

About the NO JUSTICE NO PEACE:

The No Justice No Peace Podcast is about all things related to the ‘Education Justice Movement’, including school policing, culturally relevant curriculum, racial disparities in suspensions/expulsions, grassroots organizing, advocacy, policy change etc. The host is Racial Justice NOW! Executive Director, H.A. Jabar and features guests from around the nation and world. Racial Justice NOW! is dedicated to eliminating institutional and systemic anti-Black racism and has led numerous successful campaigns in the state of Ohio and in the DMV (D.C., Maryland, Virginia).

About Racial Justice NOW!:

RJN is a community based, grassroots org led by parents pushing back on dehumanization in education. Led by @hajabar #BlackParentsUNITE For more information check out: http://www.rjnohio.org/

Sunday, August 2, 2020

SchoolHouse: Mississippi Roots of Education Justice (part 1)

 
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This Month: Mississippi organizers and education justice advocates reflect on the long struggle to end Mississippi’s school-to-prison pipeline and discuss police-free schools, abolition, and the radical imagination necessary to win education justice in Mississippi.

About the SchoolHouse: Equity in Education podcast:

SchoolHouse is a podcast created by the Communities for Just Schools Fund and hosted by Allison R. Brown, Alexis J. Smith, Jaime Koppel, and Thena Robinson Mock. SchoolHouse shares stories about how young people, their families and communities, and other advocates and activists are working in and around schools to make them healthy, safe, and equitable places for children to be. In SchoolHouse, we will learn together about the global implications of local movements for change in our schools.

About CJSF:

The Communities for Just Schools Fund (CJSF) is a nationally-focused donor collaborative. CJSF provides resources in support of community-led organizations that are working to ensure positive and supportive school climates that affirm and foster the success of all students. CJSF’s community partners organize young people, parents and caregivers, educators, and other community members to advocate on behalf of students who are disproportionately impacted by the over-use of exclusionary school discipline practices, including suspensions, expulsions, and arrests in schools. They organize community members to stand up for positive, healthy, and supportive school climates that produce better academic and social outcomes for the students who enroll than school climates with a heavy police presence, zero tolerance school discipline policies, and over-reliance on exclusionary discipline methods. CJSF’s community partners educate students, parents and caregivers, school officials and teachers, police departments, and community leaders on highly beneficial alternatives to suspension, expulsion, and school-based arrests. For more information, email us at info@cjsfund.org and sign up for our newsletter at www.cjsfund.org.

SchoolHouse: Mississippi Roots of Education Justice (part 2)

 
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This Month: Mississippi organizers and education justice advocates reflect on the long struggle to end Mississippi’s school-to-prison pipeline and discuss police-free schools, abolition, and the radical imagination necessary to win education justice in Mississippi.

About the SchoolHouse: Equity in Education podcast:

SchoolHouse is a podcast created by the Communities for Just Schools Fund and hosted by Allison R. Brown, Alexis J. Smith, Jaime Koppel, and Thena Robinson Mock. SchoolHouse shares stories about how young people, their families and communities, and other advocates and activists are working in and around schools to make them healthy, safe, and equitable places for children to be. In SchoolHouse, we will learn together about the global implications of local movements for change in our schools.

About CJSF:

The Communities for Just Schools Fund (CJSF) is a nationally-focused donor collaborative. CJSF provides resources in support of community-led organizations that are working to ensure positive and supportive school climates that affirm and foster the success of all students. CJSF’s community partners organize young people, parents and caregivers, educators, and other community members to advocate on behalf of students who are disproportionately impacted by the over-use of exclusionary school discipline practices, including suspensions, expulsions, and arrests in schools. They organize community members to stand up for positive, healthy, and supportive school climates that produce better academic and social outcomes for the students who enroll than school climates with a heavy police presence, zero tolerance school discipline policies, and over-reliance on exclusionary discipline methods. CJSF’s community partners educate students, parents and caregivers, school officials and teachers, police departments, and community leaders on highly beneficial alternatives to suspension, expulsion, and school-based arrests. For more information, email us at info@cjsfund.org and sign up for our newsletter at www.cjsfund.org.

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Solidarity: One World and COVID-19



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This month: In this episode of Solidarity Is This, learn about the ways in which activists in South Africa and Northern Ireland are addressing the inequities laid bare by the pandemic. Deepa is in conversation with Phumeza Lungwana and Nicola Browne.

About the Solidarity Is This podcast:

Solidarity Is This is a podcast created and hosted by Deepa Iyer who is with the Center for Social Inclusion and a 2017 Soros Equality Fellow. Each month, we explore how individuals and institutions are experimenting with and exploring multiracial solidarity. We will learn how to practice transformative solidarity in a rapidly transforming racial landscape and in the midst of heightened discrimination targeting communities of color. For more information check out: http://www.solidarityis.org/

About Deepa Iyver:

Deepa Iyer is a South Asian American activist, writer, and lawyer. Deepa is currently the Senior Fellow at the Center for Social Inclusion where she provides analysis, commentary and scholarship on equity and solidarity in America’s changing racial landscape. In November 2015, The New Press published Deepa’s first book, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future. Scholar Vijay Prashad has written that Deepa “brings the head of a lawyer and the heart of a community activist to bear on her remarkable book…It is a window into the struggles of the margins that allow the mainstream to remain humane.” Deepa’s book was selected by the American Librarians Association’s Booklist magazine to be one of the top 10 multicultural non-fiction books of the year. For more information check out: http://deepaiyer.com/

Sunday, June 21, 2020

NASN School Nurse Chat: Taking Your Seat at the Table!



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This week: NASN Executive Director Donna Mazyck & NASN Nursing Education & Practice Specialist Jade Bland-Slaffey speak with Virtual NASN2020 Closing Keynote Speaker Liz Dozier about the power of the school nurse’s voice and how to make your seat at the table count.

About the NASN School Nurse Chat podcast:

The NASN School Nurse Chat, a podcast hosted by NASN Executive Director Donna Mazyck, highlights timely student and school health topics of interest to school nurses and other professionals focused on student health and well-being.

Thursday, June 18, 2020

SchoolHouse: Global Education Justice in a Dual Pandemic of Virus and Racism



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This Month: (CJSF) hosts a town-hall style discussion of the global movement for education justice in this coronavirus moment. Organizers from South Africa, Puerto Rico, Toronto, and Honduras share their perspectives about the education justice movement.

About the SchoolHouse: Equity in Education podcast:

SchoolHouse is a podcast created by the Communities for Just Schools Fund and hosted by Allison R. Brown, Alexis J. Smith, Jaime Koppel, and Thena Robinson Mock. SchoolHouse shares stories about how young people, their families and communities, and other advocates and activists are working in and around schools to make them healthy, safe, and equitable places for children to be. In SchoolHouse, we will learn together about the global implications of local movements for change in our schools.

About CJSF:

The Communities for Just Schools Fund (CJSF) is a nationally-focused donor collaborative. CJSF provides resources in support of community-led organizations that are working to ensure positive and supportive school climates that affirm and foster the success of all students. CJSF’s community partners organize young people, parents and caregivers, educators, and other community members to advocate on behalf of students who are disproportionately impacted by the over-use of exclusionary school discipline practices, including suspensions, expulsions, and arrests in schools. They organize community members to stand up for positive, healthy, and supportive school climates that produce better academic and social outcomes for the students who enroll than school climates with a heavy police presence, zero tolerance school discipline policies, and over-reliance on exclusionary discipline methods. CJSF’s community partners educate students, parents and caregivers, school officials and teachers, police departments, and community leaders on highly beneficial alternatives to suspension, expulsion, and school-based arrests. For more information, email us at info@cjsfund.org and sign up for our newsletter at www.cjsfund.org.

Sunday, June 14, 2020

NASN School Nurse Chat: Tackling the Bullying Culture in Schools and on the Job



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This week: NASN Executive Director, Donna Mazyck and NASN Nursing Education and Practice Specialist, Jade Bland- Slaffey speak with NASN2020 General Session Speaker and Bullying Expert, Donna Clark Love about bullying cultures in our schools and on the job.

About the NASN School Nurse Chat podcast:

The NASN School Nurse Chat, a podcast hosted by NASN Executive Director Donna Mazyck, highlights timely student and school health topics of interest to school nurses and other professionals focused on student health and well-being.

Sunday, June 7, 2020

NASN School Nurse Chat: Preparing for the Mental State of Students in the Reopening of Schools



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This week: Speaker, author & Upliftologist ™ Adebisi Adebowale discusses student mental health and digital technology usage in the times of COVID-19. She explores the impact it will have when schools reopen & provides nurses with community outreach tips & strategies.

About the NASN School Nurse Chat podcast:

The NASN School Nurse Chat, a podcast hosted by NASN Executive Director Donna Mazyck, highlights timely student and school health topics of interest to school nurses and other professionals focused on student health and well-being.

Friday, March 27, 2020

Solidarity: In the Time of an Epidemic



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This month: Deepa Iyer is in conversation with community healer, Kevin Fong, about what we can learn from the pandemic and how we respond with compassion and solidarity.

About the Solidarity Is This podcast:

Solidarity Is This is a podcast created and hosted by Deepa Iyer who is with the Center for Social Inclusion and a 2017 Soros Equality Fellow. Each month, we explore how individuals and institutions are experimenting with and exploring multiracial solidarity. We will learn how to practice transformative solidarity in a rapidly transforming racial landscape and in the midst of heightened discrimination targeting communities of color. For more information check out: http://www.solidarityis.org/

About Deepa Iyver:

Deepa Iyer is a South Asian American activist, writer, and lawyer. Deepa is currently the Senior Fellow at the Center for Social Inclusion where she provides analysis, commentary and scholarship on equity and solidarity in America’s changing racial landscape. In November 2015, The New Press published Deepa’s first book, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future. Scholar Vijay Prashad has written that Deepa “brings the head of a lawyer and the heart of a community activist to bear on her remarkable book…It is a window into the struggles of the margins that allow the mainstream to remain humane.” Deepa’s book was selected by the American Librarians Association’s Booklist magazine to be one of the top 10 multicultural non-fiction books of the year. For more information check out: http://deepaiyer.com/

Thursday, February 27, 2020

NASN School Nurse Chat: Rare Diseases



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This week: NASN Executive Director Donna Mazyck, Executive Director of the Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation Kim Hollander, and school nurse & adjunct nursing professor Gloria Barrera discuss the school nurse’s role in supporting students with rare diseases.

About the NASN School Nurse Chat podcast:

The NASN School Nurse Chat, a podcast hosted by NASN Executive Director Donna Mazyck, highlights timely student and school health topics of interest to school nurses and other professionals focused on student health and well-being.

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Is there a new COINTEL Program for U.S. Public Schools Part 3 of 4



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This week: H.A. Jabar continues the series on the big data era, predictive analytics, algorithms and Behavioral Threat Assements in public schools and in Maryland. He interviews CEO of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, Adam Jackson from Baltimore, Maryland.

About the NO JUSTICE NO PEACE:

The No Justice No Peace Podcast is about all things related to the ‘Education Justice Movement’, including school policing, culturally relevant curriculum, racial disparities in suspensions/expulsions, grassroots organizing, advocacy, policy change etc. The host is Racial Justice NOW! Executive Director, H.A. Jabar and features guests from around the nation and world. Racial Justice NOW! is dedicated to eliminating institutional and systemic anti-Black racism and has led numerous successful campaigns in the state of Ohio and in the DMV (D.C., Maryland, Virginia).

About Racial Justice NOW!:

RJN is a community based, grassroots org led by parents pushing back on dehumanization in education. Led by @hajabar #BlackParentsUNITE For more information check out: http://www.rjnohio.org/

Sunday, January 26, 2020

Solidarity: Not In Our Name, Resisting Hindu Fascism



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This month: Learn how to be in solidarity with resistance efforts in Kashmir and India today. Deepa Iyer is in conversation with Yashica Dutt (Dalit journalist and writer) and Nouf Bazaz (Kashmiri activist and professor).

About the Solidarity Is This podcast:

Solidarity Is This is a podcast created and hosted by Deepa Iyer who is with the Center for Social Inclusion and a 2017 Soros Equality Fellow. Each month, we explore how individuals and institutions are experimenting with and exploring multiracial solidarity. We will learn how to practice transformative solidarity in a rapidly transforming racial landscape and in the midst of heightened discrimination targeting communities of color. For more information check out: http://www.solidarityis.org/

About Deepa Iyver:

Deepa Iyer is a South Asian American activist, writer, and lawyer. Deepa is currently the Senior Fellow at the Center for Social Inclusion where she provides analysis, commentary and scholarship on equity and solidarity in America’s changing racial landscape. In November 2015, The New Press published Deepa’s first book, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future. Scholar Vijay Prashad has written that Deepa “brings the head of a lawyer and the heart of a community activist to bear on her remarkable book…It is a window into the struggles of the margins that allow the mainstream to remain humane.” Deepa’s book was selected by the American Librarians Association’s Booklist magazine to be one of the top 10 multicultural non-fiction books of the year. For more information check out: http://deepaiyer.com/

Friday, January 24, 2020

Is there a new COINTEL Program for U.S. Public Schools Part 2 of 4



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This week: H.A. Jabar continues the series on the big data era, predictive analytics, algorithms and Behavioral Threat Assements in public schools and in Maryland. He interviews CEO of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, Dayvon Love.

About the NO JUSTICE NO PEACE:

The No Justice No Peace Podcast is about all things related to the ‘Education Justice Movement’, including school policing, culturally relevant curriculum, racial disparities in suspensions/expulsions, grassroots organizing, advocacy, policy change etc. The host is Racial Justice NOW! Executive Director, H.A. Jabar and features guests from around the nation and world. Racial Justice NOW! is dedicated to eliminating institutional and systemic anti-Black racism and has led numerous successful campaigns in the state of Ohio and in the DMV (D.C., Maryland, Virginia).

About Racial Justice NOW!:

RJN is a community based, grassroots org led by parents pushing back on dehumanization in education. Led by @hajabar #BlackParentsUNITE For more information check out: http://www.rjnohio.org/