203: What Happens When Two Schools Experience the Street Data Process?

The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast

Jennifer Gonzalez

Education, Teaching, Instruction, Classroommanagement, Educationreform

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In episode 178, we learned about an approach to school change called Street Data. I believed so strongly in this methodology that I asked the two authors of Street Data, Jamila Dugan and Shane Safir, if they would allow me to produce a video series documenting teachers in two schools as they worked their way through the Street Data process, so that other teachers could learn from it.

In today's episode, I talk with Jamila and Shane about the project, and we hear from teachers Amanda Liebel and Araceli Leon about their experiences.

The video series is now available at cultofpedagogy.com/streetdataseries.

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0:00.0	This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to Episode 203 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.
0:05.6	In this episode, we will return to the book Street Data and hear about our new video series,
0:11.6	which documents two groups of educators who spent the last year working through the street data process at their own schools.
0:30.7	About a year and a half ago, in Episode 178, I did an interview with two educators,
0:36.4	Shane Saffer and Jamila Dugan about their new book Street Data.
0:40.1	The book is about the approach they had developed for helping schools transform.
0:44.9	As soon as I read the book, I knew it was something I wanted all schools to hear about.
0:50.2	Because for the first time, I felt like I had stumbled on something that could actually solve some of the biggest problems we have,
0:57.9	with really meeting our students' needs, equitably and authentically.
1:02.5	What I absolutely love about the street data approach is that it's kind of messy.
1:07.9	It offers no quick fixes.
1:10.3	Unlike so many other solutions that we propose for fixing the big, deep, complex problems that plague our education system,
1:18.7	street data is completely different.
1:20.7	Because at its core, it relies on sitting down with the students and other stakeholders at the margins,
1:27.5	those who typically never get a voice, and simply listening to them to learn what they need in order to be more successful at school.
1:36.3	And successful means something different in the street data lexicon.
1:41.9	Instead of focusing on test scores, grades, and other metrics that we typically use to measure success,
1:48.3	their criteria for success are much more holistic, with student well-being as the ultimate goal.
1:54.3	And I don't know if there has ever been another time in history when it's been more apparent that our students are not well.
2:01.9	I was so blown away by the street data approach that after we finished our interview in October of 2021,
2:08.7	I proposed that we take it further.
2:10.7	As much as I felt that their book could really reach educators and change so many schools in ways that they really needed to be changed,
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