Representation in the Classroom

Funded Aug 21, 2019

We at Coastal Georgia Comprehensive Academy are grateful for your support of our village-based classroom setting. You helped us make our important Inclusive initiative a smashing success! Because of your generosity we were able to read books to our students that the students could relate to. For the first time students were able to listen to books whose characters look and sound like them. In such books as, As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds and One Crazy Summer by Rita Garcia-Williams the students were able to relate to the language and situations that the characters found themselves encountering. Inclusiveness is vital in the lives of our young ones. It's an imperative part of their self-esteem. Additionally, starting in January we will be novel studies on multiple books that your generous donations have bestowed my classroom with.

We used the books that we are reading to identify figurative language as well as pulling out sentences as mentoring sentences.

Thank you again for your kindness and generosity.”

With gratitude,

Ms. Carter