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Nikolai Pizarro has been listed as a resource by Harvard's Kennedy School along side some of her favorite resources, The Conscious Kid and Woke Kindergarten. She is noted as saying, "Being mentioned along side them is truly an honor!"
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Episode 1.33 decentering school with Nikolai Pizarro
Meghan is talking with Nikolai Pizarro of @raisingreaders on the concept of decentering school, to center connection and relationship. this discussion touches on educational trauma, the pressure to uphold the school system and the values it thrusts into families.
Consent-Based Everything: Ep 9. Literacy & Liberation (and consent!) with Nikolai Pizarro
Fran chats to Nikolai about centering literacy in our homes and taking back the tools to support our children with learning to read and write. We talk about perceptions around literacy in both unschooling and schooling spaces, and Nikolai speaks to literacy as a tool for liberation. We also talk about the importance of relationship and trust, of non-coercion, and of decentering school as a movement for all families (unschooled, homeschooled and schooled!).
Confetti All around: EPISODE 12: "In Defense of Childhood" with guest Nikolai Pizarro
Cynthia has learned so much about centering the home with love and connection through Nikolai's work and her example in friendship. This is a friendly conversation that is impactful and expansive. Nikolai gives her favorite tips for centering connection with your child this summer.
NotYourOrdinaryParts: Episode 13. Decentering Schooling to Center Humanity w/ Nikolai Pizarro, Author, Educator, Advocate
In this episode Nikolai debunks the idea that the school system prepares us for "the real world" and also touches on the pressure and stress that the school system as a whole put on students and families that seems to have been normalized. This was a very eye-opening conversation!
Let' em go BAREFOOT: Raising Readers- Home as Epicenter with Nikolai Pizarro
From an MBA to Literacy Advocate, Nikolai Pizarro believes deeply in the power of community. She embodied self-directed education early and flew under the radar in school by learning advanced math with a neighbor that eventually landed her acceptance to the University of Chicago much to the surprise of one high school teacher in particular.
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Homeschool Yo Kids: Raising Readers... with author & advocate Nikolai Pizarro
Join two former public school teachers on this episode as Raising Readers Founder, Nikolai, shares the importance of connecting with learners first, understanding the intricate details of brain science, the need to get through our 'state of alert', and the extraordinary assignment of being a 'parent'.
The Distance: Coronavirus Dispatches- Schooling with BIPOC-Led Pandemic Pods & Micro Schools
From an MBA to Literacy Advocate, Nikolai Pizarro believes deeply in the power of community. She embodied self-directed education early and flew under the radar in school by learning advanced math with a neighbor that eventually landed her acceptance to the University of Chicago much to the surprise of one high school teacher in particular.
Teaching Tomorrow Podcast: 83. Literacy as liberation with Nikolai Pizarro of Raising Readers
How can education be a way to create more belonging and contribution for young people? Today, I have the delight of sharing Nikolai Pizarro of Raising Readers.
Out Of Line: Building Literacy And Raising Readers
Nikolai Pizarro joins Annie and Candis in this episode to talk more about why her program Raising Readers is reclaiming literacy instruction as something to do in the home. Her literacy course called Home As Epicenter is equipping parents and caregivers on how to help their young people decode language. Nikolai encourages parents and caregivers to learn the science of reading so they may extend the work of the schools into community at home.
Black Lives Matter at School Week Early Childhood Symposium 2021
Disrupting Anti-Black Racism in Early Childhood Education: Center, Abolish, Liberate
Nikolai Pizarro, Guest Panelist
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Hosted by the Center on CENTER ON CULTURE, RACE & EQUITY
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NPR
"Many of our students will thrive because the public school system is fundamentally inequitable, and now they're outside of oppressive systems and able to learn more freely," says Nikolai Pizarro, founder of the BIPOC-led pandemic pods and micro-schools Facebook group.
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The Washington Post
Parents unhappy with school options assemble learning ‘pods’ | Carolyn Thompson and Adriana Gomez Licon
Atlanta, Georgia, parent Nikolai Pizarro de Jesus has homeschooled her 12-year-old son since he was in kindergarten and has been busy in recent weeks helping families organize more socio-economically accessible pods by matching them with homeschooling families who wouldn’t necessarily need to hire a teacher.
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The New York Times
Pods, Microschools and Tutors: Can Parents Solve the Education Crisis on Their Own?| Melinda Wenner Moyer
Consider also hiring a teacher who is Black, Indigenous or a person of color (B.I.P.O.C.), and asking them to implement a social justice-themed curriculum, said Nikolai Pizarro, an educator, author and mother in Atlanta who runs the Facebook group BIPOC-Led Pandemic Pods and Microschools.
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Wall street Journal
Can You Form a School Pod Without Fueling Inequality? These Groups Are Trying | Yoree Koh
Parents and educators are trying to create inclusive and equitable pandemic pods, which have become a flashpoint in the national debate over race and privilege
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