Advocacy Bites

Advocacy Bites

A Podcast about two accidental education advocates, what they've learned and how you can get involved in making your corner of the world a better place, whether you have one minute or one hour.

Episodes

April 14, 2025 26 mins

Susan and Renee welcome a special guest to give us the scoop on SEL: what it means, what it looks like in schools, and why it makes extremists mad.

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Susan and Renee talk about party politics (again) and the kind of fight they’re looking for in party leaders.  

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Susan talks about the latest threats to 504 and Renee highlights our Trans kids as well as our school boards actions.

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Susan gives a breakdown of the Public School's Forum annual Eggs and Issues Event.  Renee gives tips to help us all deal with the overwhelm of bad bills hitting us all at the same time.
 
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Renee and Susan discuss what you can do to stay motivated when it comes to advocacy. 

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January 13, 2025 20 mins

Susan and Renee go over what's on the line in 2025.

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December 16, 2024 25 mins

Renee and Susan celebrate the holidays with an episode about what’s been making them think and bringing them joy recently.

Books: Author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice; and The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
Author Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad
Show: Star Trek Discovery, Severance 
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December 2, 2024 28 mins

Susan and Renee review over some ideas for getting started as an Every Day Advocate.  

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November 18, 2024 20 mins

Renee and Susan process the 2024 election.

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November 4, 2024 18 mins

Renee talks about how a right-wing candidate engineered a controversy at the school board to make herself a free campaign ad. 

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October 21, 2024 27 mins
Renee and Susan discuss a variety of news/issues that have popped up, including the North Carolina legislature's determination to expand vouchers, the recovery from Hurricane Helene, the bad proposed Constitutional amendment on our ballot, and new (and, it turns out) highly orchestrated attacks on our public schools and trans kids.  
 
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October 7, 2024 20 mins

Susan and Renee discuss what it means when candidates talk about “school safety.” 

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September 23, 2024 21 mins

Renee and Susan talk about the important of judicial races this year.  

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September 3, 2024 28 mins

Susan and Renee discuss the Republican plan for federal education policy.

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August 20, 2024 25 mins

 Susan and Renee look at Oklahoma and Louisiana and discuss the trend of religious instruction in public education as well as the changes in Title IX.

 

 
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Renee and Susan discuss two of the most pressing budget items waiting on approval.  While there was a little put forth for child care after the recording, the lack of a long term plan remains.  
 
 
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July 8, 2024 29 mins

Susan and Renee talk about non-profits and the press handling of extremists.  

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June 24, 2024 21 mins

Renee and Susan revisit the ongoing efforts to ban books in school and local libraries.

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June 10, 2024 23 mins

Susan and Renee discuss how meaningful and important it is when all different kinds of people are involved in advocacy and leadership. 

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May 13, 2024 23 mins
Renee and Susan discuss the final report of this year's Futurama Committee (spoiler alert: there's a lot of "we should think about" and almost no "we should do" in the report).
 
Show notes: Committee report:  86920 (ncleg.gov)
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