Lisa Lavender

Birmingham City Schools

[Bhampolice @BhamPolice]

✏️Back to School Supply Drive✏️

Now- July 25th

The Birmingham Police Department’s Community Outreach and Public Education Division along with Birmingham Crossplex,, and I AM BHAM is hosting a Back-to-School supply drive.

[Avondale Elementary School @SchoolAvondale]

https://t.co/mYG37fUfno

[Birmingham City Schools🎓 @BhamCitySchools]

All schools and offices are closed Wednesday, June 19 in observance of Juneteenth.

[Birmingham City Schools🎓 @BhamCitySchools]

All Birmingham City Schools buildings and schools will be closed on Wednesday, January 17, 2024 due to inclement weather.

We will resume our regular schedule on Thursday, January 18. Intersession will be held on Thursday, January 18 and Friday, January 19.

[Lisa Lavender @lslavender]

Summer literacy and numeracy camp at Avondale Elementary. “Learning is Our Superpower”

[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!”

[Lisa Lavender @lslavender]

Join me in supporting Junior League of Birmingham at Little Black Dress Initiative 2023. https://t.co/xAIrPZ97tl #ASKMEWHYIWEARBLACK

[Lisa Lavender @lslavender]

This week I will wear black to raise awareness of the work of the Junior League of Birmingham. Join me today by donating at my link: https://t.co/RiXaiyinHu @JLBirmingham @BBGardens

[Birmingham City Schools🎓 @BhamCitySchools]

Happy New Year, everyone! Winter Intersession starts this week, from January 3 - 6, 2023. Additionally, students resume classes on Monday, January 9, 2023.

[Lisa Lavender @lslavender]

Congratulations Ms. Harris! Avondale Elementary School Teacher of the Year!

[Lisa Lavender @lslavender]

AES Curriculum Night was a success! #atavondalewesoar

[Avondale Elementary School @SchoolAvondale]

Congratulations to our math derby participants. We are extremely proud of them! Our first place winners will move on to compete in the district’s math derby. Go Eagles! #atavondalewesoar

[Lisa Lavender @lslavender]

Why Modeling the Use of Standard English Is Important for Classroom Teachers https://t.co/zYpCKekoEu

[Avondale Elementary School @SchoolAvondale]

We had a blast at our Fall Festival and Art Show! #atavondalewesoar @BhamCitySchools