Jason Terrell, Executive Director of Profound Gentlemen, shared a powerful message with Black male teachers on #iAmABlackMaleEducator blog. As the organization is preparing for it’s annual conference for Black male teachers, EdLanta is sharing Jason’s view on the Beloved Community Dr. King envision and our role in building it. Imagine you awoke this morning in a community governed on the…
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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…
Black Male Teachers Improve the Lives of Black Boys
We don’t hear from the experts who are making student achievement happen daily in schools. In my experience, Black male teachers are the experts we seldom see or hear from in public school classrooms that are saving the lives of Black boys one life at a time. We’re bringing the solutions to the crisis public schools are facing with educating…
We’ve Got to Love Our Black Boys in Healthier Ways
We’ve got to love our Black boys, all of our boys in healthier ways.