✍🏿What’s Your📖Story?
What’s Your Story?: Breanna Fulton: Representation and Affirmation
“What’s Your Story?” is a guest post feature on BCBA’s Our Stories Matter blog. It’s for indie/self-published authors.
Read an👇🏿excerpt:
In August 2014, I stood in my first classroom prepared to teach my students everything I could. What I didn’t know at the time was how much I would learn from them. I have always been an avid reader and naively thought that my students would be the same. However, as a 4th-grade reading teacher, I constantly heard my students tell me that they did not like to read. One day I stopped the entire lesson and asked the students a simple question, “Why not?” I needed to know why they were not invested in reading, and the responses were startling. Students shared that they did not like reading because they hardly ever identified with the characters, and people had told them that they would never be good readers, and as a result, they had internalized it.
I rushed home and reflected on the day. As I sat and thought about the books we studied during the quarter, I quickly realized that not one of them contained a black or brown character. My school population is 99% African American, and students were not being exposed to characters that represented them….Continue reading
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