Teachers across Georgia are now delivering education in ways they’ve never been trained for or prepared to do as a sole means of educating Black students. Not only is there a huge equity issue widening the digital divide, but there is also a lack of culturally inclusive curriculum in our public schools. Coupled with the stress of creating virtual lessons,…
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BOOK Challenges Us to Provide Better Educational Outcomes for Black Boys by Bringing More Black Male Teachers into Early Learning Classrooms
Johnathon Hines was previously featured in a blog I wrote for EdLanta in October. We celebrated his accomplishments for becoming the first Black male Pre kindergarten teacher awarded Teacher of Year. So what’s next? The question I posed to Greg Clay, one of the leaders for the Men of Book, a subgroup of the organization BOOK, Inc. BOOK is an…
Family Engagement in Schools Is An Untapped Resource for the Success of Black Boys.
There’s a popular neighborhood saying, “family over everything”, which ironically is quite the opposite of what it actually happening with modern day American families in school Districts across the Nation. Pew Research Center stated in a recent article that “Two parent families are on the decline in America!” This statement is proven by the high rates of divorce, prison entry and death…