Reading the World

So valuable! Thank you.

This, like gutting USAID, is not about waste. It is a boldface grab for money and power.

RTW is proud to support Love Behind Bars and sponsor the Miss Kodiaga Women Prison fashion and talent show.
RTW will bring books for the seven children born in and living with their mothers here.

Methodically. But with relevance for the learner.
This is where the science and art of teaching can shine.
There is no one way. Wouldn’t it be nice…
Instead, we weave a readymade and vetted program into present curriculum and evident student needs. Personalize it.
Monitor it.
Adapt and adjust.

RTW brought instructional supplies to Arise & Shine in Kenya this week. Storybooks (English & Swahili), posters, puzzles, & paper. Teacher Jacqueline entertained the learners reading "Manu the Monkey." They made important connections between background knowledge and new vocabulary.
Then we danced!

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At Arise & Shine in rural Nyamila, RTW provided classroom book sets so every learner can participate.
In this class of 38 last year, the students shared three books. Now everyone reads!

Until we use the language we really mean, no amount of culturally responsive teaching will work. Whiteness supersedes culture in application.
No knock on you, @larryferlazzo.bsky.social; I have used and written the same.
But it is time to change and call the work what it is: antiracist teaching.

Literacy is a moral imperative, not a right of privilege. Where a child is born should not determine access to educatoin

Reading the World provides education services to school deserts, places where kids have limited or no access to education.
Help us help them. Five dollars pays for school supplies for one kid. Five hundred pays for a classroom. Make your pledge today! readingtheworld.com

Donate to Support Access to Education in Africa, organized by Kris Nystrom Reading the World addresses school deserts, places where kids have limited or no ac… Kris Nystrom needs your support for Support Access to Education in Africa

Kids are dying to go to school. RtW provides education services to school deserts, such as in Ghana where 11 students drowned last year crossing a river to get to school.

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Kids are literally dying to go to school.
RtW provides education services in school deserts.
Your donation can make a difference.

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