Adrian Douglas is a teacher in Metro Atlanta. He is advocating for students who are struggling readers to get more support in his class. He is only $1,162 dollars away from his fundraising goal. I’m featuring his project to support our work as Black male educators to close the achievement gap for children struggling in public schools. This year, my…
Author: Jason B. Allen
Dads Are Making It Cool for Black Boys to Read Books in the Barbershop
Fathers Incorporated is committed to making high school graduation a reality for Black boys in Metro Atlanta communities. Their initiative is both innovative and full of swag—perfectly designed to reach Black boys. Currently their Real Dads Read initiative has 27 libraries in barbershops around the city of Atlanta. Due to the success of this initiative in bridging the gap between…
Thanksgiving for Karlton Is Every Day He’s Able to Go to School
There are so many children and families who depend on the school lunch programs to survive. We truly overlook the impact homelessness has on school aged children. Our school nutrition program workers don’t overlook nor do they overlook our homeless children. As a school leader l learned that the cafeteria staff members are our schools’ unsung heroes. Many don’t look…
More Black Male Educators Can Help Support Our LGBTQ Students of Color
Atlanta is often referred to as being the home of gay social life in the South. However, gay Black boys still go through a public lynching every day at schools across Georgia. Unfortunately the sexual orientation of Black boys is a still barrier in schools that inflicts a lot of self-esteem and social acceptance issues. Black boys dealing with self…
What Cops Can Learn From Black Male Educators
Black male educators have some tactics to teach cops that would actually build positive relationships between cops and Black boys. Building relationships with Black boys begins with how we engage with them. This Isn’t the Movies A family friend took a substitute job recently in Atlanta and said it reminded him of the movie, “Boyz n the Hood.” He actually…
Schools Need More Black Male Counselors
There are 2% of Black men in the education field; imagine the number of Black male counselors there are in schools. Ken Kemp, Black Male counselor in Atlanta, Georgia, is featured in this post to share the importance of his work as a Black male counselor and the positive impact it has on Black boys. We hope this will encourage…
When Your Former Student Calls You His Superman, You Can Pretty Much Retire Happy
Well, this was cool and unexpected. A mentee of mine read my recent blog post about my former student Maleek, and was actually moved to submit the letter below about the impact I made on him and other students when I worked at their school. I don’t know if what I did was so special, but I think it really…