Episode #54: Teaching is a Love Supreme

This week we host a podcast about teaching from Christopher Rogers. Here is what he has to say about this episode:

“Over the Summer of 2014, we launched a meetup of self-identified Black male educators hosted at The Center for the Study of Race & Equity in Education. Through impassioned dialogue, we landed on what we all felt to be a generative inquiry into our motivations to become educators, recognizing the overwhelming number of educators who leave the classroom in their first five years. We investigated the interrelatedness between what brought us into teaching and why we continue to stay in teaching. We present this podcast as an exhibit of truthful self-interrogation of unfinished thoughts from a moment in these conversations. For this illustration, Coltrane’s A Love Supreme becomes the canvas for the journey, emphasizing our supreme love for our work.”

Featured Music:

“A Love Supreme” John Coltrane

“Sleeping Beauty” Sun Ra

Tags: annenberg school for communication, christopher rogers, pedagogy, race, university of pennsylvania