Episode 82: Just Breathe | Breaking Barriers: Tackling Gender Inequity in Schools

31 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Heather Hester discusses how schools can reduce trauma and bias by getting to know students better. The conversation centers on eliminating educator biases, creating safer environments, and transforming how schools operate to address gender inequity.

The way we're going to make kids more successful in school is by really getting to know them much better. And that also means eliminating some of our own biases. The way— everybody's got a story. Everybody.
Once you bring something like this, become aware of it, then you begin to see it in your behaviors and your actions, and that's how you can begin to shift.
The reason we're doing this is to make kids more successful in school.
So what is uncomfortable. Let's talk about that. And, and that's where we have to shift.
I'm very passionate about this, not just because I want to make school more successful for students, but I also want them to feel safe. Sometimes school can also be a traumatizing environment.
You know, you've, you've written about it, and this is something that's being studied. This is something that— holy cow, this can shift education in such an extraordinary way.