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“Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark.” -Jay Danzie

#BlackBrainsMatter

While there isn’t evidence of State Departments of Corrections using third (or second or fourth) grade reading scores to predict the number of prison beds they’ll need in the next decade, there is an undeniable connection between literacy skills and incarceration rates.

A student not reading at his or her grade level by the end of the third grade is four times less likely to graduate high school on time – six times less likely for students from low-income families.

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"Mr. Roy Curry, my 9^th grade Lit teacher, had the audacity to tell me I was smart. And I had the courage to believe him. I can’t imagine what my life would be like if he had not invested in me and my success." -from my TFA School Leaders to Learn From talk

A 2009 study by researchers at Northeastern University found that high school dropouts were 63 times more likely to be incarcerated than college grads.

Dr. Howard Fuller once said “Our ancestors fought for us to sit at the counter and our kids (rubs skin to reference color) can’t even read the menu.”

14% of African American boys are proficiently reading in 4^th grade. You do the math. That means 86% of them are projected to be incarcerated at some point in their life.

"It’s a state of emergency! We know school doesn’t currently work for kids in today’s society. Why do we continue to educate them in this fashion? The only thing I can think of is…we’ve always done it this way. This is how we’ve always done school." -from my TFA School Leaders to Learn From talk

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