#Btr news
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March, 2020 - #BrownTeensRead goes virtual! The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the world. In seconds, businesses shuttered, shelter-at-home orders were proclaimed and schools closed. More than ever, the world went online.
Immediately, #BTR made adjustments to implement social distancing but make sure that teens worldwide could still access books, each other and phenomenal experiences through books and the Internet. |
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February, 2020 - In partnership with Growing Your Roots 2020, the Austin Public Library and the San Francisco Public Library, #BrownTeensRead facilitated: Oral Fixations, Family Histories Retold, a teen genealogy workshop! Participants created interactive genealogy journals, wrote compelling docu-histories about people from the 19th century and presented their work!
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January, 2020 - In partnership with Core Elements, Inc., #BrownTeensRead facilitated a teen genealogy workshop! Participants dramatically presented docu-histories about people from the 19th century!
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December, 2019 - In partnership with Core Elements, Inc., #BrownTeensRead facilitated a teen genealogy workshop! Participants created interactive genealogy journals and wrote compelling docu-histories about people from the 19th century!
profiled
August, 2019 - Founding Director, delmetria millener, was featured in Voyage Dallas. Read about her journey and how #BrownTeensRead went from a class project to a nonprofit organization! Click image to read article!
approved!
May, 2019 - #BrownTeensRead is designated 501(c)3 by the IRS!
jump roping for literarcy
May, 2019 - In partnership with #Brown Teens Read, Giving Keys of Hope sponsored a Jump Roping Literacy Challenge. For every 15 minutes that the teens jumped rope, the African American Environmentalist Association would plant two trees and donate a small library to a classroom. The challenge lasted 12 hours. After, #BTR sponsored dinner and dancing.
musings & mayhem
April, 2019 - Brown teens had a blast at the play, Twelfth Night. Students had to take a scene and recreate it as a rap, song, monologue, or other creative piece!
late night literature circles
April, 2019 - Brown teens gathered at a local high school to read, discuss, reflect and make connections on culturally responsive literature. This literature circle was engaging, interactive and fun! They wanted to finish the entire book in one night! Oh yeah, almost forgot...there were snacks!
happy birthday dr. seuss!
March, 2019 - #BrownTeensRead bookclub members had a blast hosting a birthday party event for Dr. Seuss. Teens visited CareCenter Ministries to read, eat Dr. Seuss-themed cupcakes, dance and socialize with elementary and middle school youth. They also got a chance to read with The Cat in the Hat and participate in contests and prizes to celebrate Dr. Seuss's 95th birthday!
#BTR's ice cream social kick-off event
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February, 2019 - In order to introduce #BrownTeensRead at-large, we hosted a kickoff Ice Cream Social event! Teens had a blast networking, winning prizes, playing book-themed games and of course, eating traditional and dairy-free ice cream!
#brownteensread wins LEF Grant opportunity
October, 2018 - #BrownTeensRead Wins Again! For the second year in a row, #BrownTeensRead has won the LEF Educators Grant! The funding received made it possible for #BTR to become a nonprofit organization, host a kickoff event to introduce #BTR to the community and host their first read-in!
things get real: from class project to academic movement
September, 2018 - Some things just make sense. #BrownTeensRead Reading Awareness Project started as an assignment for a Business English class. But, as the students shuffled along, their teacher detected a problem: many teens of color admit that they do not read, and even more disheartening, do not like to read! It was making our project difficult because in order to develop their project, they needed to read in order to gather research and statistics. But, they just did not like reading.
After consulting with other English teachers, delmetria, or ms. d., learned that teens across the board do not like reading! Tragic! So, to address that problem, she created a solution! #BrownTeensRead! While many of our initial concepts for the project remain the same, our focus has bent toward getting teens to read more, and to get educators to be more culturally responsive when choosing reading material for their English classes.
Now, as advocates for a balanced narrative of teens who do love reading and writing, we aim to appeal to more teens of color to read and write, not just for the classroom, but for their own enjoyment!
After consulting with other English teachers, delmetria, or ms. d., learned that teens across the board do not like reading! Tragic! So, to address that problem, she created a solution! #BrownTeensRead! While many of our initial concepts for the project remain the same, our focus has bent toward getting teens to read more, and to get educators to be more culturally responsive when choosing reading material for their English classes.
Now, as advocates for a balanced narrative of teens who do love reading and writing, we aim to appeal to more teens of color to read and write, not just for the classroom, but for their own enjoyment!
