Educational advocates Nekima Levy Armstrong, Tanesha Peeples, Garris Stroud, Dirk Tillotson, and Zachary Wright have started a petition to the Federal Communications Commission advocating for all families to have free internet access. The COVID -19 pandemic has placed a stronger sense of urgency from public school districts to find ways to support academic instruction as school districts are being closed…
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Video Games Help Engage Black Boys in STEAM
In preparation for the GA Milestone test, I used the popular video game, Fortnite, with my Black male students to engage them in argumentative writing. Video Games Helped Engage My Black Male Students! I learned that many of the Black boys spent most of their time after school hours playing video games. So I took the opportunity to engage them…