Ethics In Education Network

05/29/2026

🎧 NEW EPISODE!

Educating for The World We Want: Learning to Citizen with Green School Bali

We share brief presentations from the fourth “Global Saturday Salons” that Ethical Schools is sponsoring with three international partners. Dr. Benjamin Freud is the Strategic Lead for Regenerative Education at the Green School Bali, Manon Tiange is a Grade 12 student mapping labor invisibility and systemic inequality in Bali, and Scarlett Gonella is a Grade 12 student investigating plastic pollution and advocating for clean water access in Indonesia. They talked about an educational culture rooted in contribution to community. Learners are trusted to ask difficult questions, collaborate across generations, and imagine reform at the highest levels.

This salon series is called Learning to Citizen: Tales of Youth Voices, Agency, and Care. Our goal is to honor learners and teachers who are already doing the work practicing care, enacting citizenship, and learning how to regenerate their worlds.

🖤 Discover more and join us on May 30th to learn with members of The Brotherhood Sister Sol at edfortheworldwewant.net

✔️ Listen now on our website:
https://ethicalschools.org/2026/05/educating-for-the-world-we-want-learning-to-citizen-with-green-school-bali/

🟢 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/07Gd95vzvYnb1FktKBZ2Wd?si=lyQrpn_xRY6_ySxczfg4MA

🍎 On Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/educating-for-the-world-we-want-learning-to-citizen/id1459925807?i=1000769562941

▶️ On YouTube:
https://youtu.be/DBeAtN-doXc?si=D9ARfPD-GzVKHgBG

We share brief presentations from the fourth "Global Saturday Salons” that Ethical Schools is sponsoring with three international partners. Dr. Benjamin Freud is the Strategic Lead for Regenerative Education at the Green School Bali, Manon Tiange is a Grade 12 student mapping labor invisibility an...

05/22/2026

What happens when Black and Latinx young people in Harlem grow 35+ varieties of fruits and vegetables, run their own farmer's market, design composting systems, construct gardens, organize for community wellbeing, and call themselves the Gaia Renaissance Collective?

Citizenship happens.

On May 30th, we will host our 5th Global Saturday Salon with members of The Brotherhood Sister Sol's (BroSis) Environmental Program.

📣 Learning to Citizen: Tales of Youth Voices, Agency, and Care
📅 Saturday, May 30, 2026 | 11:30 AM EDT | on Zoom

🖤 BroSis is a Harlem-based organization that has spent more than 30 years at the forefront of racial, economic, educational, environmental, and gender justice. Through "unconditional love, wraparound support, and programming that invites Black and Latinx young people to examine their roots, define their stories, and awaken their agency", BroSis embodies exactly what it means to learn to citizen.

Meet the voices joining us:

🔹 Nando Rodriguez — Senior Manager for Environmental Programming at BroSis. Nando first joined BroSis as a youth member in 1995 and never left. As a high schooler, he designed an original composting bin that BroSis members still use today. He now coordinates all environmental programming, including the youth-run Hamilton Heights Farmer's Market, which sells over 4 tons of fresh food to local residents each season.

🔹 Camila Salcedo — 16-year-old sophomore at Thurgood Marshall Academy and 4-year BroSis member.

🔹 Elias De Leon — 17-year-old junior at Kipp Charter School and 3-year BroSis member.

Come with us to meet agency where it lives and to honor learners already doing the work.

✅ Pay what you can. Register at edfortheworldwewant.net

05/19/2026

🎧 Listen now: Literature as identity-affirming, teaching as liberatory

Dr. Chantal Francois and Dr. Jen McLaughlin Cahill, co-authors of Identity-Affirming Literacies in Schools, discuss their time at the school they call Pearl Street Collaborative, a progressive secondary school on Manhattan’s Lower East Side that prioritizes teacher inquiry and collaboration. Schedules include time for teachers to meet frequently with grade and content colleagues. Drawing on the work of Freire and Lilia Bartolomé, Drs. Francois and McLaughlin Cahill used literature to support students’ identities, including by integrating an LGBTQ+ focus into English classes.

🏳️‍🌈 Listen on our website: https://ethicalschools.org/2026/05/literature-as-identity-affirming-teaching-as-liberatory/

🟢 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6cYIQ2MrptEBGyYAKaFvGm?si=_VZpz0xmTCyGLQ3SFPXMzQ

▶️ Listen on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REaRcdK16AU

Dr. Chantal Francois and Dr. Jen McLaughlin Cahill, co-authors of Identity-Affirming Literacies in Schools, discuss their time at the school they call Pearl Street Collaborative, a progressive secondary school on Manhattan’s Lower East Side that prioritizes teacher inquiry and collaboration. Sched...

05/03/2026

We're so excited to share this one with our community! 👇

On Saturday, May 9 at 9AM EDT, the Global Saturday Salon series returns with Learning to Citizen: Tales of Youth Voices, Agency, and Care.

The speakers? Two remarkable Grade 12 students from Green School Bali — Manon Tiange and Scarlett Gonella — presenting real research projects on labor invisibility in Bali and the link between water insecurity and plastic pollution in Indonesia. They're joined by Dr. Benjamin Freud, Head of Upper School and Strategic Lead for Regenerative Education at Green School Bali.

This is exactly the kind of conversation the Ethical Schools community was built for — young people exercising genuine agency, asking hard questions, and doing something about it.

📌 Free to attend | Pay what you can
📌 Zoom | May 9 | 9AM EDT
Register here → edfortheworldwewant.net

Tag an educator who needs to see this. 👇

04/29/2026

🌱 SAVE THE DATE 🌱

Big conversations are coming… and this one centers the voices we most need to hear.

Learning to Citizen: Tales of Youth Voices, Agency, and Care
📅 Saturday, May 9, 2026
🌍 A global virtual salon (pay-what-you-can)
💻 Hosted by Educating for the World We Want, an initiative that Ethical Schools is sponsoring with three international partners

What does it mean for young people to practice citizenship right now?

These upcoming salons brings together youth and educators from around the world to explore how learning, care, and action intersect in real communities. From environmental challenges to social systems, these are stories of agency in action.

✨ If you care about:
• Student voice
• Ethical & democratic education
• Real-world learning
• Youth-led change

…you’ll want to be part of this.

👉 Registration is now open! https://www.edfortheworldwewant.net/

Help us spread the word and let's reimagine education together!

04/19/2026

How do we ensure students feel safe to disagree with their teachers while maintaining a social justice-focused classroom?

In our latest episode, Dr. Anthony Johnston returns to discuss his new book, “Introduction to Secondary Teaching.” We explore the intersection of teacher wisdom, evidence-based research, and the ethical challenges of grading and cultural capital.

Whether you’re a veteran educator or just starting out, this conversation offers a fresh look at the "wisdom of practice."

👉 Listen to the full episode and find the transcript here: https://ethicalschools.org/2026/04/upskilling-teachers-elements-of-social-justice-focused-teaching/

🔊 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4VgsEOvUpPS8e0Tdy9heKa?si=nBdXli3CTQSDcpAR7xMDDw

🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/upskilling-teachers-elements-of-social-justice/id1459925807?i=1000762247396

▶️ Listen on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/UDT2ZMeTiDU?si=4qcbmJDrJmMboRBd



https://ethicalschools.org/2026/04/upskilling-teachers-elements-of-social-justice-focused-teaching/

Upskilling teachers: Elements of social justice-focused teaching

04/08/2026

In our most recent Global Saturday Salon, Deb L. Morrison (University of Washington/IPCC) shared a powerful framework to approach Climate Literacy: The Sun Diagram. There are many "rays" or entry points into this work that help us move from false hope to pragmatic hope.

Deb also invited us to challenge the individualistic systems that got us here, and that includes an educational system built around individual achievement. “Learning is a collective activity and we learn in and with each other, in and with the land and the waters of our regions”, as she put it.

🔊 Listen to the episode "Global Conversations: Nature, Place, and Education, Salon 3" with Deb L. Morrison, Kerry Kirk Pflugh, and Tom Roderick wherever you get your favorite podcasts.

> Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5jnjjN6z2rvyzmDZNeHf6b?si=ngS6vIQhSGKDtNOPxrBtlQ

> Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/global-conversations-nature-place-and-education-salon-3/id1459925807?i=1000757320255

> Listen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HigP_ALdMrk?si=gmJR0GY3cK-dw6RE

🍃 You can also find all resources shared by Deb at https://www.globalconversations.net/news/salon-3

03/28/2026

We share brief presentations from the third of the “Saturday Salons” that Ethical Schools is sponsoring with three international partners. Kerry Kirk Pflugh is the executive director of the New Jersey School of Conservation. She also comes with extensive background experience at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Tom Roderick is the author most recently of Teach for Climate Justice: A Vision for Transforming Education. He was also the Founding Executive Director of the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility. Deb L. Morrison is a Learning Designer and Advisor at the University of Washington and a Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report 7. They talk about how educators can respond to the urgent environmental crises we face.

> Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5jnjjN6z2rvyzmDZNeHf6b?si=ngS6vIQhSGKDtNOPxrBtlQ

> Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/global-conversations-nature-place-and-education-salon-3/id1459925807?i=1000757320255

> Listen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HigP_ALdMrk?si=gmJR0GY3cK-dw6RE

> Learn more and join us at globalconversations.net

https://ethicalschools.org/2026/03/global-conversations-nature-place-and-education-salon-3/

We share brief presentations from the third of the “Saturday Salons” that Ethical Schools is sponsoring with three international partners. Kerry Kirk Pflugh is the executive director of the New Jersey School of Conservation. She also comes with extensive background experience at the New Jersey D...

03/20/2026

Is "School Choice" as simple as it sounds?

In our latest clip, Dr. Ujju Aggarwal discusses her research into the school choice system. Despite the promise of more equity and access, many families found that the process actually denied them both. From high-stakes school tours to unwritten "contribution" expectations, the reality of "choice" is far more complex than it appears.

Listen to the full episode: 🔗 https://ethicalschools.org/2026/03/school-choice-who-does-the-choosing/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/62kH9SsK6lzPAUp55U5wK8?si=YI_QTe7WQ2qs-cxMxpIysg

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/school-choice-who-does-the-choosing/id1459925807?i=1000754860867

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Oo5wt7mWofA?si=UNfWMOWasoRg7u88

03/12/2026

New Episode! We welcome back Dr. Ujju Aggarwal (The New School) to discuss her book "Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education". In Unsettling Choice, Dr. Aggarwal focuses on the intersection of public education and gentrification. The book is based on her work with mothers at a Head Start center in NYC. We discuss the race and class discrimination the parents faced and whether exclusion is inherent in school choice programs.

🎧 Listen to the full conversation with Dr. Aggarwal here:
https://ethicalschools.org/2026/03/school-choice-who-does-the-choosing/

- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/62kH9SsK6lzPAUp55U5wK8?si=y4xmBObsS36iickgErBo3g

- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ethical-schools/id1459925807

- YouTube: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ethical-schools/id1459925807

We welcome back Dr. Ujju Aggarwal, assistant professor at The New School, to speak about her book, Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education. In Unsettling Choice, Dr. Aggarwal focuses on the intersection of public education and gentrification. The book is based on he...