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The YDSC Team
The YDSC Team
Director of School Culture: Zakiya Williams-Spears
Meet the Team
Meet the Team
Zakiya Williams-Spears is the founding Director of School Culture at WTES. Originally from Chicago, IL she is continuing a long family legacy of educators and community servants. Zakiya is entering her 11th year as an elementary educator and has served as a teacher, specialist, consultant and school administrator. When she is not working, 'wifing' or mothering her 2 year old son, Julian, Zakiya enjoys leading dance fitness classes and serving various online coaches with her educational consulting business, CulturEd Consulting.
She lives by the African Proverb "If you want to fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." She is honored to be a founding leader at WTES and looks forward to building, learning and growing with a group of highly motivated and talented educators.
The Cultural Digest
The Cultural Digest
Welcome to The Cultural Digest Archives! The Cultural Digest was first born during the 20-21 school year as a tool for teachers to remain aligned on key cultural aspects of our community including events, social-emotional learning priorities, and cultural celebrations and schoolwide priorities. This year, as our Youth Development and School Culture Department, has grown, so has our capacity to provide more meaningful and engaging learning experiences for our entire community.The Cultural Digest aims to serve all of our community members including faculty, staff, families, children, and the greater BP network.
We hope you all will use this document as a tool to engage in meaningful, culturally relevant conversations with your students and families. You will regularly find context from our social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum (Caring Schools Community) and ways to implement the objectives at home and at school. You will also review blurbs about the culturally relevant holidays that occur in that month, storybooks to share, engagement activities and more! We hope that providing this content will strengthen our home school-connection as we engage in similar conversations across our community.
Please explore each page. We carefully curated this document with love and intention. We hope you find it a valuable asset in your home and classroom community.
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