A Black History Spotlight
By Simply Motivated
February 1, 2021
Simply Motivated/ The Expressive Queen is running back our Black History Spotlights this Black History Month 2021 . We will give tribute and pay homage to our leaders in the black community throughout the month with a short overview of their accomplishments and talents.
With today being a “snow day” for some schools in northeast Ohio today, I feel it proper to firstly pay homage to someone who was very dedicated in her role in education. Marva Collins (1936-2015) was an educator who, in 1975, founded the Westside Preparatory School in an impoverished area of Chicago. The school first opened on the second floor of her home whose students consisted of Marva’s own children as well as neighborhood children. Her school named Westside Preparatory School offered black children from low-income families the possibility to receive a proper education. She wrote several books and trained over 100,000 teachers to help inner city students learn. What can be thought of as her greatest accomplishment is that her methods of teaching helped to boost students grades so much that her methodology has been hailed by many including President Ronald Reagan.
Thank you Mrs. Marva Collins for putting such a high rank on our children’s education no matter what their past or background looked like.