Education BCDI-Seattle partners with PRAXIS Early Childhood Development Institute on education. Deborah Sullivan EdD, representing PRAXIS, is the Chair lf the BCDI-Seattle Education Committee. Documents on this site are those that Dr. Sullivan has cited as being relevant to the education of African American children.
To understand why BCDI-Seattle and PRAXIS have such a focus on the education of African American children, please download the PRAXIS ECE/BCDI-Seattle Education Fact Sheet
On November 20, 2010; PRAXIS Early Childhood Institute held a Curriculum Symposium on Children of African Descent. The documents below were discussed in that symposium.
Click here to download the curriculum overview packet from the symposium.
For many years, Dr. Zakiya Mwanatabu Stewart chaired the BCDI-Seattle Education Committee. Below are two of many documents produced by Dr. Stewart during her time with us.
Click here to download the table of contents and preface to Dr. Stewart's book- HELPING ORDINARY KIDS BECOME EXTRAORDINARY LEARNERS: Effective Strategies for Closing the Achievement Gap.
Click here to download Dr. Stewart's essay on The Importance of Cultural Immersionat Home for BlackChildren.
BCDI-Seattle believes that parents are an essential component of a child's learning. National Black Child Deveopment Institute developed the Parent Empowerment Project (PEP) to educate, motivate, and inspire parents to excellence as their child's first teacher.
Download this presentation on PEP by BCDI-Seattle President, Dr. Wanda Hackett.
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