Season 3, Episode 4 | Gimme My High School Experience

We continue our Season of Pleasure with this conversation with high school students Aleya, Kyree and their college instructors Beylul and Jill, who learn and teach at the Early College Academy Program with Coolidge High School and Trinity University in Washington, D.C. They share about the abundant pleasure that emerges when we learn in community, seek to see ourselves and each other in our teaching, and root ourselves in education as the practice of freedom. If pleasure can happen in the classroom, what does this look and sound like?

We invite you to share your reflections. What can pleasure look and feel like in spaces of education? What is bringing you pleasure and rest this month? Send your thoughts to us at us@dancingondesks.org, leave an audio message, or slide into our DMs on IG @dancingondesks.

Participate in Black Lives Matter Week of Action this Feb. 5-8, 2024. Find out what’s happening in your area at: https://www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com/woa.html

Transcript Finalized March 1, 2024

INTELLECTUAL INHERITANCE

• Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire

• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, Zaretta Hammond

• Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Asking a Different Question, Gloria Ladson-Billings

• Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Peter Liljedahl

• Saul Wiilliams at NuBlu NYC, @trishesmusic (TikTok)

• Meet the Robinsons, Walt Disney Pictures (2007)

• My School DC - Coolidge HS

• “Israel kills dozens of academics, destroys every university in the Gaza Strip,” via Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor

• Myleik Teele’s Podcast, #174: Let It Be Easy: Reducing the Addiction to Struggle

MUSIC

• Dancing on Desks theme song composed and arranged by Mara Johnson and Elliott Wilkes

• “Can’t Go Back” prod by rémdolla (Yebba x Sampha type beat)

• “Change the World” prod. Bailey Daniel (Outkast type beat)

• “Soul Cry” prod by Kulture Kat

• “Loving You Mine” prod by Jonah Bru

• “Tone” prod by rémdolla

• “Sanctuary” prod by rémdolla jazz slow

• “Opal” prod by rémdolla

• ”110” prod by roku beats

• “Evenings in Cali” prod by loopy

• “Nineteen” prod by marvin

• “Tea” prod. by Metz Music