On this episode, we are joined by educator and author Dr. Craig Boykin to engage in courageous dialogue aimed at subverting longstanding inequities pervading our schools. Dr. Boykin confronts uncomfortable truths impacting marginalized students. He pens transformative texts like “The IEP Trap” and “Right Motives, Wrong Methods” tackling education and special education pitfalls, polarizing tracking policies, and teaching tendencies that stifle empowered youth voices. 

What emerges is a nuanced portrait of an achievement gap born not from lack of effort but lack of access, resources, understanding, and human dignity from classrooms to administration and beyond. As Dr. Boykin highlights pathways to educational justice, he calls equally on student grit, structural reforms, and paradigm shifts embracing the brilliance in every learner. 

Educators, parents, students―all have a role in galvanizing school cultures where differences unite us and possibilities take root if nourished by equity. Allow Dr. Boykin’s words to instill hope while illuminating overlooked perspectives promising an educational future, we all deserve. 

Dr. Craig Boykin’s Contact Information: 

Instagram - @ged2phd 

TikTok - @ged2phd & @kingequityK12 

Facebook – Craig Boykin 

Twitter/X - @ged2phd 

Website – CraigBoykin.com 

"Facts Are Leaking" written by William Jones & G.L. White. Song performed by G.L. White.

"Bringing Parents and Educators Together" performed by Timothy White.

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Scholastically Speaking sign off performed by Timothy White.