Ep 130: Working with Students In Urban Setting Featuring Dr. Richard Milner

This episode of the Making After School Podcast features my interview with Dr. Rich Milner, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development. We discuss the unique challegenes of working with students living in urban setting and how to address the opportunity gaps that many if these students encounter

Guest

Dr. H. Richard Milner IV. Dr. Milner is President of the American Educational Research Association, the largest research organization in the world. He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Education. He is a researcher, scholar and leader of urban education and teacher education. Centering on equity and diversity, he has spent hundreds of hours observing teachers’ practices and interviewing educators and students in urban schools about micro-level policies that shape students’ opportunities to learn.. 

During This Podcast you will learn information regarding the following

1. A Description of urban education, what do we know regarding the subject, and what other information do we need to know
2. Recommendations concerning how educators should support students of color, students living in poverty line, and those whose first language is not English.
3. The difference between the term  “opportunity gaps.” and “achievement gap”
4. The Teachers Race Talk Survey,one of the first survey instruments focused on teachers’ reported beliefs about race and discourse.
5. The three types of urban education

Resources

Dr. Richard Milner

rich.milner@vanderbilt.edu

Mike Wilson

mwilson@hcde-texas.org