Our Core Values
Our Core Values
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“Knowledge is like a garden, if you don't cultivate it you cannot harvest it.” - African Proverb
“Knowledge is like a garden, if you don't cultivate it you cannot harvest it.” - African Proverb
Center and amplify the brilliance that students, teachers, and communities hold.
Model the use of restorative literacies to heal, renew, restore, and expand students’ relationship with themselves, their communities, and their learning identities.
Anchor lessons with the multidimensional reading model, culturally responsive instruction, and interdisciplinary literacy including the use of the Disciplinary Literacy Essentials.
Create opportunities for students to access, understand, and explore enabling texts and STEM careers.
Our Key Outcomes
Our Key Outcomes
The Boys College Summer Literacy Institute (BCSLI) is designed to advance literacy learning for boys throughout Oakland and Wayne Counties. This multidisciplinary program serves both teachers of grades 3-5 and students. School teams participate in an intensive professional learning with Dr. Alfred Tatum, a leading expert in the research of the literacy development of African American boys.
Boys College teacher leaders work to implement the MDRM model with students who have completed 3rd-5th grades. Lessons leverage exponential reading and writing across all academic disciplines.
Key Outcomes for Students
Engage with enabling texts that span the social and natural sciences
Increase their daily reading volume and stamina
Build textual lineages
Create outlets and environments to showcase their knowledge through writing
Collaborate with peers using cause-based readings and discussions
Key Outcomes for Teachers
An understanding of the core tenets of Multidimensional Reading Model (MDRM) and its relationship to Culturally and Historically Responsive Education (CHRE)
A practical model to build upon the literate lives of Black boys by utilizing teaching practices that will advance literacy and knowledge development
An expanded understanding of how discipline-specific reading, writing, and inquiry support reading development
Create and teach literacy lessons utilizing the MDRM
An understanding of MDRM and its alignment to the Essential Instructional Practices.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Core Values and Key Outcomes | Parent Welcome Letter | Student Interest Survey |Parent Information Survey
Lesson Prototype | Unit Planning Resources | Teacher Orientation Slides | Oakland Schools Media Release Form
Wayne County RESA Media Release Form | Registration | Google Classroom |SMORE
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