Episode 158: EDI Podcast, Series 2, Episode 1: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy - Part 2 With Dr. Korey Boyd

SHAPE America's Podcast - Professional Development for Health & Physical Education Teachers

Kicking off Series 2 of SHAPE America’s Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Podcast, Sean is joined by Dr. Korey Boyd for the second part of their conversation! Sean and Korey discuss a variety of topics including Korey’s career and roles at Springfield College, culturally relevant pedagogy, race & more. Korey Boyd is an assistant professor in the School of Physical Education, Performance and Sport Leadership at Springfield College in Massachusetts. His primary role at Springfield College is teaching undergraduate and graduate Secondary methods courses in the Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) initial leisure program. His philosophy of PETE follows similar logic and produces the following axiom: Produce better thinkers, not better thinking. Boyd’s research focuses on evidence-based teaching practices in physical education that work toward achieving racial equity and cultural relevancy in PE pedagogy. He conducts and publishes research focused entirely on the links between race and teaching physical education. For the video version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9P8KlRrgKY For more episodes and resources: https://www.shapeamerica.org/prodev/edi-podcast