Drena🌻

School Psychologist 💙Boy Mom. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽. Aspiring writer ✨

[Drena🌻 @brainVShart]

FOR GOOOOOOOD!

[ʇuᴉɐS📍 @saint_cloudy]

You also realise he was so real for saying this

[Drena🌻 @brainVShart]

Had my first parent refuse consent for services because she doesn’t want her child in a “self-contained” class. He’s going into 4th grade and still struggling with letter sounds despite average cognitive functioning. I am crushed and feel so defeated.

[Drena🌻 @brainVShart]

@ADM_Principal And we love ADM! Thank you 💕

[Jeannie Pressley @ADM_Principal]

ADM appreciates our School Psychologists!
#ADMHawksRise
#SSDShiningStars

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.

Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees... Fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood... and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!

Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak!

It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” —James Baldwin

[J. Tanner Curry @jtannercurry]

This week we celebrate @CherryvaleElem s amazing assistant principal, Mrs. Healey! She is an outstanding leader who is a team player and always puts children first. Thank you for all that you do for our school! #TalonsUp

[Drena🌻 @brainVShart]

As a person who can’t cook, I hate when somebody say “watch the stove” cause what exactly am I watching for and what do I do when I see it??!! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[Drena🌻 @brainVShart]

Lord, have mercy. I am so tired. 😔

[Black School Psychologists Network, Inc. @TheBlackSPs]

SURPRISE, #BSPNFamily! BSPN is hosting our 1st annual Black School Psych Summit in Atlanta, GA, on April 27th-28th, 2023! Register today! https://t.co/dbGIKlwRXq

TWO history makers, Dr. Deborah Crockett and Dr. Celeste Malone, are joining us as our keynote speakers! #BSPS2023

[Art Of Philosophy @Deep_philo]

We can try to find happiness in a love relationship, yet it is best to learn how to find happiness firstly within ourselves.

If we cannot be happy when we are single, it is wrong to ask someone else to come into our life to make us happy.

[Drena🌻 @brainVShart]

Idek atp man…

[DeMarcus A. Jenkins @Markie_Jay06]

Ironically, I WAS doing well, and then your email found me. 🌚

[Drena🌻 @brainVShart]

And I cannot stress this enough…. You HAVE TO know your history.

[African American Policy Forum @AAPolicyForum]

Thanks to all who joined our #UnderTheBlacklight event tonight. We hope you got as much from the conversation as we did!

The event can be re-watched in its entirety here (without video issues!). Please watch and share: https://t.co/EurJfUKgOo

[Outkast @Outkast]

Spaceships don't come equipped with rearview mirrors 🚀

[PlanetVenus @PlanetVenus365]

Please join us in congratulating Lynette Shaw on her graduation! It is with immense pleasure that we congratulate you!

[Sonya Douglass, EdD @drsonyadouglass]

@DrVEvansWinters It was so good seeing you, Dr. Venus! 💕Reflecting on meeting in an airport shuttle years ago and our respective journeys in the academy since is humbling and something to be proud of. Grateful to share these special moments with sisters like you.💫