S6E3 - Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford: What improvers can learn from civil rights organizers

High Tech High Unboxed

Episode Notes

Stacey Caillier and Curtis Taylor talk to Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford about what Septima Clark, Ella Baker, and Bayard Rustin can teach us about continuous improvement.

Learn more about Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford’s work here

Brandi’s other episodes on this podcast:

• Dr. Brandi Hinnant Crawford, Improvement as a Tool for Our Collective Liberation (High Tech High Unboxed podcast)
• Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford & Dr. Luke Wood at Gates CoP NSI (High Tech High Unboxed podcast)

Articles, books, and people referenced in this episode:

“ImproveCrit: Using Critical Race Theory to Guide Continuous Improvement,” by Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, Ericka Lytle Lett, and Shamella Cromartie, appears in Continuous Improvement: A Leadership Process for School Improvement

Septima Clark, “Literacy and Liberation”

Robin D. G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Bettina Love, Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

Adrienne Marie-Brown, Octavia’s Brood

Decoteau J. Irby, Stuck Improving

The Interrelationship Digraph (Stacey’s favorite protocol)

Amanda Meyer has two articles on Unboxed, both very much worth reading! Improvement as a Journey and Swimming Against the Current: Resisting White Dominant Culture in Improvement Work

Khalifa, M. A., Jennings, M. E., Briscoe, F., Oleszweski, A. M., & Abdi, N. (2014). Racism? Administrative and community perspectives in data-driven decision making: Systemic perspectives versus technical-rational perspectives. Urban Education, 49(2), 147-181.

To learn more about QuantCrit, look out for this piece (once it is published): Castillo, W., & Gillborn, D. (2022). How to “QuantCrit:” Practices and questions for education data researchers and users. Manuscript under review.

Louis Gomez is a professor at UCLA

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