In this episode, guest host Amber Joy chats with Courtney Bell, a high school teacher in North Minneapolis who was a candidate for the 2018 Minnesota Teacher of the Year Award. In a recent article by the Star Tribune, Bell talks about her work teaching sociology to high school students in North Minneapolis. Bell discusses how she encourages her high school students to see themselves as budding sociologists, keeps them engaged in sociological research methods, and uses lessons from sociology to build what she calls emancipatory education.

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