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Featured Literacy Advocate: Author, Counselor, and Community Leader Tre Hadrick!

5/30/2022

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Tre has a new book in his series Cheesestakes & Clippers.

His books focus on community and financial literacy and entrepreneurship.

Tre also hosts an AMAZING Vlog focusing on literacy and does tremendous work to create access for young people to engage in reading.

Check him out at @mrlitedu and support his efforts to create opportunities through literacy.
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We Are Here Lit!: with Carole & Jeffery Boston Weatherford

4/2/2022

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We Are Here Lit! interviews Award-Winning Author Carole Boston Weatherford in honor of Women's History Month! We will celebrate her space in children's literature as an author who has given voice to Black historical people and places for all to learn. We also learn about her influence on her son Jeffery who is a Poet, MC, and Illustrator.
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Relationship Building & Relevance Outside of the Classroom

12/14/2021

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The following titles in this post build student identity, engagement, and literacy practice in classrooms.

How can these ideas be transferred to libraries and community literacy programs?

Both books by Prof. Muhammad and Educator Escoto Germán provide methods literacy advocates and librarians can use to connect young people's cultural identities to history and center children's voices in the literacy and learning process.

Librarians can also use these titles to enhance outreach and relationship building with diverse patrons. Both books can provide strategies to ground diverse programming and collection building.

What were some of the things you've picked up and used from these books in your practice.

Titles:

Muhammad, Gholdy, Love, Bettina L., writer of foreword, and Scholastic Inc., publisher. Cultivating Genius : an Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc., 2020. Print.

Germán, Lorena Escoto, and Paris, Django, writer of foreword. Textured Teaching : a Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2021. Print.
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Youth Advocacy & Gentrification in #kidslit…

10/31/2021

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I recently finished the middle-grade book ‘Take Back the Block’ by Chrystal D. Giles and the picture book ‘Alejandria Fights Back! ¡La Lucha de Alejandria!’ by by Leticia Hernández-Linares, The Rise-Home Stories Project, Robert Liu-Trujillo , and Carla España (Translator) and wanted to put some additional books to support this topic.

‘Take Back the Block’ features the protagonist, middle schooler, Wes Henderson, along with his community dealing with a real estate developer offering to buy the neighborhood where Wes grew up.

Black and Latinx youth advocacy and community are involved in both books as they also use their local library to source information to advocate for their communities.

Also, included are the following titles to learn and discuss this topic from elementary through high school:

-Everything Naomi Loved by Kate Yamasaki and Ian Lendler (elementary)
-Like Home by Louisa Onome (middle/high school)
-Halsey Street by Naima Coste (middle/high school)

Included in the Linktree (in bio) are additional lesson plans, video clips explaining gentrification, and a Boyz N The Hood clip for context geared towards a high school student prompt.
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