NYKids Deep Dive
NYKids Deep Dive
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Hello and welcome to the NY Kids Deep Dive podcast where we engage in our principles to Inform, Inspire, and Improve New York State Schools through conversation with educators, leaders, researchers, and advocates for high-quality education from across the state. We invite you to join us in an exploration of practices, policies, and research so you can be part of making the changes you want to see in our educational system.
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The podcast emphasizes topics such as rural education challenges, innovative educational policies, and effective teaching practices, with episodes featuring discussions about improvements to rural school environments and insights from education reform advocates.
Hello and welcome to the NY Kids Deep Dive podcast where we engage in our principles to Inform, Inspire, and Improve New York State Schools through conversation with educators, leaders, researchers, and advocates for high-quality education from across the state. We invite you to join us in an exploration of practices, policies, and research so you can be part of making the changes you want to see in our educational system.
This latest blog shares highlights from our Deep Dive podcast episode with Dr. Jenay F. E. Willis from the University of Mississippi!
Dr. Willis is a researcher and scholar practitioner who draws from her own experiences as a Black woman from the Deep South. Her work applies critical lenses to explore the lived experiences of rural Black students and communities as they navigate college access, success, transition, matriculation, and graduation. Dr. Willis utilizes what she refers to as community-driven and shared power approaches to center individual’s identities in her practice.
In this episode, we take a deep dive into how these strategies can be engaged and discuss the learning opportunities involved in community-driven and youth-led research.
Our conversation covers issues including:
Dr. Willis’ background and what has driven her work today: from going to school in the rural South to teaching in an Urban district in the Northeast.
Research on youths’ experiences, in particular, with attention to the experiences of rural, Black students and communities.
Breaking down youth-led participatory action research (YPAR), which is a method that centers young people as the experts and applies their inquires to promote change in their communities. Dr. Willis shares her current projects with YPAR, including a research method called photovoice.
The meaning behind community-based research and how it supports Dr. Willis’ scholarship.
The opportunities and obstacles researchers face when it comes to implementing community-based research and highlighting youth voices.
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