Cultivating the Genius of Black Children : : Strategies to Close the Achievement gap in the Early Years

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Call Number: 371.829 Su, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Education / General / Sullivan, Debra Ren-Etta
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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Part 1: Background and context -- What do we know about how black children learn? -- Incorporating learning styles and preferences -- Cultural intelligence and teacher efficacy -- Part 2: Putting it into practice -- Key elements of appropriate learning environments for children of African descent -- Changing the teaching and learning environment -- Changing relationships with black families and communities -- Story time: one teacher's journey -- Working within existing models -- Epilogue: closing thoughts.
"There has been much attention given to the achievement gap between white and minority students, especially African American children. Through research and years of experience, the author breaks down the cultural influences on children's learning styles and provides a practical approach to helping black children thrive in the classroom. For black children, which Sullivan defines as those of African descent, there is a disconnect between learning preferences and learning environments that must be bridged before the achievement gap can be closed. This hands-on resource is filled with effective strategies and best practices to help early childhood educators expand their "toolbox" for supporting children. Increasing cultural intelligence will allow us to work across the many differences in our classrooms. As our schools become more diverse, cultural competency will be an increasingly important skill for teacher's efficacy and children's success. By cultivating the individual genius of each child and meeting children where they are today, we can invigorate the education system and provide children high-quality early education experiences."-- Provided by publisher.
"There has been much attention given to the achievement gap between white and minority students, especially African American children. Using research and years of experience Cultivating the Genius of Black Children is able to break down the cultural influences on learning style and provides a practical approach to helping Black children thrive in the classroom. By cultivating the individual genius of each child and meeting them where they are today we can invigorate the education system and provide children high quality early education experiences"-- Provided by publisher.

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Expanding your lens of success submitted by ldibble on October 13, 2020, 8:22am What I love about this book, is that even though it calls out strategies that the author recognizes as valuable for students of color that she also maps it to the intellectual aspects as well as the cultural ones. We begin to see how culture and human brain patterns merge and diverge based on our environment, temperament, and the attention of significant others. The next thing that I loved about the book was the concept of success and how we all may have a different definition of what that looks like among subjects, lessons, school, and life and how those are all intertwined as well. t made me question more vigorously what are the essentials that need to be mastered to be able to thrive in the world at large.