Ashley Cullum Kemp

📚 6th Grade ELA 📚

[DWA•NESHA @Duanecia]

The emphasis on educational equity has largely focused on under resourced communities. I would like to venture into how dangerous it is for affluent schools to underprepare their students for the world. No access to culture, Blackness, an in-depth history of racism and oppression

[Ashley Cullum Kemp @Aecullum]

@likaluca Genesis Begins Again by @storiestolife

[Evan Seymour @evangelist84]

Hey followers, friends & family!! Could use your help. Please reply here with the handle(s) of Black influencers I should touch base with about the #BlackInfluencerDatabase. Need to be folks who’ve been paid for their work. Micro, Nano, Macro...all welcome. Thanks y’all!! ❤️

[Tatiana Mac @TatianaTMac]

White people:
We gotta talk about burn out. You aren’t conditioned to be thinking about race this much because of your privilege. We need you to do all you’re doing today, tomorrow, and until the end of time.

Let’s talk about ways to focus on current & systemic change.

👇🏽

[Truss Leadership @trussleadership]

Why I am exhausted right now, as a black person in the United States of Amerikkka (thread)...

[Truss Leadership @trussleadership]

To my white educators: Today, you’re posting about social justice, buying antiracist books, following brown folks, and temp changing your profile pictures. (thread)

Here’s what I need you to do tomorrow:

[Cult of Pedagogy @cultofpedagogy]

One thing you can do today to support racial justice: Follow the news with an equity lens. Do this is by creating a Twitter list populated with IBPOC and others who regularly post on equity issues. Steps and recommendations in the next few tweets.

#onethingforracialjustice

[Project LIT Community @ProjectLITComm]

#BlackLivesMatter

[Jennifer Serravallo @JSerravallo]

How many times today have your literacy skills come in handy to advocate for yourself or someone you care about, understand what someone else is trying to express, learn something new, earn a living, tell your truth, be entertained. It's nonstop.Literacy is just about everything.

[Dr. Brandon Abdon 📖 ✏️ @DrBrandonAbdon]

Truth
#NCTE18 #CEL18

[Jarred Amato @jarredamato]

Important questions that educators need to ask: Why am I doing this? What is this celebrating? Can I take the risk to do the opposite? @chrisemdin #NCTE18 #ProjectLITchat

[National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) @ncte]

"The art of teaching is the art of the remix; it's the art of reimagining." @chrisemdin #NCTE18

[Ashley Cullum Kemp @Aecullum]

If you signed up for this job (teacher) and didn’t know you were an activist, you better switch jobs. @chrisemdin #NCTE18

[Ashley Cullum Kemp @Aecullum]

For students, the only person better than them is already embedded in them. @chrisemdin is 🔥🔥🔥#NCTE18

[Ashley Cullum Kemp @Aecullum]

The best part of #NCTE18 is nerding our with my bff and @eStemPCS rockstar partner-in-crime @emilyshester Can’t wait to share and collaborate with @eastvillagejhs and @eStemDTJHS ELA teachers. #projectlit #booklove

[Ashley Cullum Kemp @Aecullum]

@KyleneBeers, @pennykittle, and @KellyGToGo help us create critical readers, engaged writers, and compassionate people. #teachergoals #NCTE18

[Ashley Cullum Kemp @Aecullum]

I love that a student is telling teachers how to be the change we wish to see in the world. This is the way it should be. #raisingstudentvoices #NCTE18

[Ashley Cullum Kemp @Aecullum]

The kids are not the future. They are here today. Thank you Xiuhtezcatl Martinez! #NCTE18

[Ashley Cullum Kemp @Aecullum]

@thelivbits was such a great way to kick off the day! Kids can definitely teach us. #NCTE18

[National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) @ncte]

“There’s something wonderful and affirming about reading about your own reality....And it is equally important to read about people who are not like you.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie #NCTE18