TPP 278: Supporting Black Gifted Students, with Dr. Joy Lawson Davis
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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I will never say that we should be eliminating gifted programs in order to create equity in our schools. What we should do is change the way that we identify students for gifted services, change the way teachers are trained, change the way we collaborate with families and with those parents of those students. change the way we, you know, we do everything in the name of educating our brightest students. They are everywhere.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber. This is the last episode of this season and of 2021. And I'm excited to close out with an incredible guest. I'm talking with Dr. Joy Lawson Davis, an award-winning author, professional learning trainer, independent consultant, and equity activist. Dr. Davis's areas of expertise and focus are culturally responsive teaching, equity and access in gifted education programs, and meeting the needs of diverse gifted learners. Joy is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Education Gifted Education, a sought-after keynote speaker and trainer for organizations, school districts, and state agencies across the nation and internationally.
She is the author of Bright, Talented, and Black, a guide for families of African American gifted learners, gifted children of color around the world, diverse needs, exemplary practices, and directions for the future. And during this interview, you'll hear us talk about her recently released books, Empowering Underrepresented Gifted Students, Perspectives from the Field, and Culturally Responsive Teaching in Gifted Education. As you can probably tell, Dr. Davis is a very busy person, and this is a jam-packed conversation with a lot of resources for parents and schools. We talked about special gifts that Black gifted children have that are often missed, the biggest roadblocks in traditional education models for Black gifted students, and how schools can support the Black families in their community and make their programs more inclusive.
I also asked Joy her perspective on the very timely issue of racial disparities in public gifted school programs, as well as her ideas for white families who want to join the fight for equity in gifted programs. I hope this conversation leaves you feeling a sense of urgency mixed with a powerful boost of inspiration and motivation. Also, I did take a lot of notes during this episode and Dr. Davis shared a ton of resources. So I encourage you to visit the show notes page. You'll also find a list of key takeaways, a transcript and a podcast player with the episode broken down into chapters. So if you want to go back and re-listen to a specific piece of the conversation, you can easily find it. This week's episode can be found at TiltParenting.com slash session 278.
A quick reminder that if you're feeling stressed and overwhelmed with changing schedules, family and in-law dynamics, big expectations, and tricky kid energy, and you could use a giant reset button so you can wipe the slate clean and start fresh, check out my new mini course, The Emergency Reset. I created this to help you get out of a negative parent-child cycle and prevent you from getting dragged back into that cycle moving forward. Learn more at TiltParenting.com slash emergency reset. Lastly, as I said at the head of the episode, this is the last new episode for 2021. I'll be back with brand new episodes starting February 1st, 2022. And I've already started interviewing people for the next season.
I can tell you right now, it's going to be a good season. I've got episodes coming up with Mona Delahook, with Maria Kennedy, Anne Louise Lockhart, Natasha Daniels, and much more. I cannot wait to share it with you. And of course, if you missed the show between now and February 1st, I encourage you to go back into the archives and listen or re-listen to some oldies but goodies. I hope you have a restorative, spacious and beautiful holiday break, whatever you celebrate, however you're spending it.
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