Education, history, and equity in full context.
The Teacher's Forum treats K-12 education as more than classroom practice. David Harris guides measured conversations and occasional addresses about DEI backlash, Black history, AI literacy, and the responsibilities educators carry inside contested institutions.
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The Teacher's Forum approaches education as a public trust. It is a serious, humane show about teaching, identity, history, and the systems that shape school life. David Harris leads with broad, inviting questions and gives guests space to tell the longer story. The pace is measured. Recent episodes show a consistent concern with what happens when equity work meets institutional resistance. A conversation with Daniel Harris focuses on DEI backlash, belonging in predominantly white institutions, and the choice between complicity, complacency, and change. Another episode turns a Black History Month keynote into a broader meditation on resilience, resistance, responsibility, and historical memory. The show does not treat Black history as a ceremonial subject. It treats it as a living inheritance, one that asks educators to tell the truth when truth itself is being contested. In the episode with Jeffrey Riley, artificial intelligence becomes both a practical classroom tool and an equity question. The discussion moves from teacher anxiety to AI literacy, personalized reading levels, feedback, and the future skills students may need. The Martin Luther King Jr. episode with Ernest Crim III is especially direct about memory and power. It challenges flattened versions of King, considers capitalism and integration, and asks what honest teaching requires in an age of backlash. Other recent episodes center identity-conscious education, difficult conversations about race, Black educators, public schools, and the cost of telling the truth. The show is not chatty or ironic. It favors context, reflection, and moral clarity. Its classroom warmth keeps the heavier material from becoming abstract. Listeners hear educators and guests thinking aloud about responsibility, not just describing problems. The Teacher's Forum suits people who want education talk anchored in history, equity, and lived consequence.
Made for: For educators, families, and civic-minded listeners who want serious conversations about K-12 schools, identity, and public responsibility. It especially suits listeners interested in equity work, Black history, DEI backlash, and the future of teaching.
What sets it apart: The show connects classroom practice to historical memory and institutional power without rushing the conversation. Its strength is the steady movement from personal experience to larger questions about belonging, resistance, and responsibility.
Welcome to "The Teacher's Forum" hosted by David Harris, a veteran educator with 32 years of experience in private, public, and charter schools. This podcast is your platform to hear the voices of educators from the United States and around the world, with a special focus on educators of color, who are often overlooked in crucial education discussions today. Join us as we dive into important topics, and experiences of K-12 educators, and get a chance to hear from David’s former students, as they share their stories, insights, and experiences. Be sure to tune in and let's celebrate the dedication and...
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A steady conversation about DEI backlash and the choices still available to educators.
The Teacher's Forum approaches DEI backlash through a question that feels both institutional and personal: what happens when people are asked to enter teaching and learning spaces while setting parts of identity aside.
A serious discussion of King, public memory, and the unfinished causes behind the dream.
Martin Luther King Jr. comes through as a public figure whose memory has been softened by ceremony, while David Harris keeps attention on the sharper parts of the work: segregated public life, voting rights, jobs, equity, justice, and the unfinished cause behind the dream.
Daniel Harris, founding director of the Equity Exchange and 30-year director of the Community and Equity Leadership Center at John Burroughs School in St.
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David Harris interviews Providence Day School teacher Brian Lee about financial literacy for educators, students, and communities of color.
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