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Reading for Joy Workshop

Reading for Joy: Using Books to Promote Children's Cross-Racial Understanding

Tues., June 1, 2021
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM EDT
Online Event

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A free, hands-on workshop dedicated to finding and using books to expand kids’ empathy, respect, and connection across differences.

About this event
How can you use books to raise antiracist kids? Educators and children’s literacy specialists Renata Love Jones and Nicholl Montgomery led a free, interactive workshop dedicated to finding and using books to expand kids’ empathy, respect, understanding, and connection across differences. They shared why celebrating joy, especially Black Joy, is important for all kids, and how it applies more broadly to cross-cultural understanding.
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Participants walked away with a better understanding of how to choose and use books to help expand their children’s antiracist development, conversation starters for kids, a list of recommended books and places to find them, and additional Black Joy, genius, and love resources, including a music playlist.
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Renata Love Jones, PhD, is an assistant professor of language, literacy and culture in the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education at Georgia State University’s College of Education & Human Development. Jones’s research broadly explores literacy education and development for racialized and multilingual children. Jones taught language and literacy in K-12 contexts for more than a decade.

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Nicholl Montgomery is currently a PhD candidate and teaching fellow in the Curriculum and Instruction department at Boston College, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate literacy courses. Before attending Boston College, Montgomery taught middle school and high school English for Boston Public Schools. She plans and facilitates the It’s a Family Affair book club at Frugal Bookstore with Monique Harris.
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