{"id":97946,"date":"2026-03-03T17:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=97946"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:47:19","slug":"sharif-el-mekki-on-growing-educators-of-color-through-pleasure-duty-and-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/03\/03\/sharif-el-mekki-on-growing-educators-of-color-through-pleasure-duty-and-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharif El-Mekki on Growing Educators of Color Through Pleasure, Duty and Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettingsmart.com\/podcast\/sharif-el-mekki-on-growing-educators-of-color-through-pleasure-duty-and-honor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sharif El-Mekki on Growing Educators of Color Through Pleasure, Duty and Honor<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from gettingsmart.com by Shawnee Caruthers and Sharif El-Mekki, Founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aspiring educators should have the requisites to spend time in their community as a part of their education.<\/li>\n<li>Educators should be asking: how do we build cultures of cooperation and collaboration?<\/li>\n<li>Investigate your intellectual genealogy to see where you are getting the ideas you have to question assumptions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>His mantra, \u201cWe Need Black Teachers\u201d is more than a rallying cry, but a deep desire to give voice to the over 8 million black learners that need to see themselves in their classrooms and community.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharif El-Mekki on Growing Educators of Color Through Pleasure, Duty and Honor\u00a0&#8212; from gettingsmart.com by Shawnee Caruthers and Sharif El-Mekki, Founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development. Key Points Aspiring educators should have the requisites to spend time in their community as a part of their education. Educators should be asking: how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,86,343,347,46,74,20,66,89,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-development","category-change","category-education","category-education-reform","category-k-12-related","category-leadership","category-strategy","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97947,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97946\/revisions\/97947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}