īook donations are welcome and can be sent to 5005 Business Park North, Bakersfield CA, 93309. So that we can find your videos on social media, use hashtag #CAPKRAA on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube posts. The National Education Association (NEA) originally created Read Across America (RAA) to celebrate the birthday of Dr. Upload the video(s) to Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, or Facebook by Friday, February 25 th.Record a 3 to 5-minute video of yourself reading.Grab a book of your choice to donate or choose from our available selection of at our 5005 Business Park North office.Email Carolyn Coffey at to schedule the date and time of your reading.
Show proof of COVID vaccination or exemption.New Study Published on Racism and Dr.CAPK Head Start invites you to be a part of our 2022 Read Across America event! This year you may bring a book to one of our centers and read outside to children, or you can read virtually over Social Media! Participating in Person? Thread from The Conscious Kid in the #DisruptTexts slow chat Seuss and Toward Diverse Books (School Library Journal)
Is the Cat in the Hat Racist? Read Across America Shifts Away From Dr. The Cat is Out of the Bag: Orientalism, Anti-Blackness, and White Supremacy in Dr. *If you’re unaware of the issues with Dr. Seuss books, this post from Teach for the Change on Instagram is a good starting point. If you are looking for alternatives to traditional purposes for Dr. If you’re trying to share with students and getting blocked by enterprise Google settings, try using this published to the web version for sharing. It is not open for making a copy to protect the integrity of the work & ensure you will see any changes. You can then save as a shortcut to your Drive. You can also access the Google slideshow using this link. READ ACROSS the Diverse Regions of AMERICA You can shop this list & others to support independent bookstores + my work at my Bookshop page! Last year, I selected 5 titles for each of the 5 regions of the United States (Northeast, Southeast, South, West, Midwest) you could use to truly represent and Read Across the Regions of America.įor this year, I updated the title selection to ensure each has a copyright-compliant read aloud video available. To help in efforts to have a more diverse & inclusive focus for students, two years ago I shared a list of 50 inclusive picture book read aloud alternatives. Because we cannot refuse to move on from the past and bypass our responsibility to represent the entirety of what America is about today. Because we cannot allow racist or stereotyped imagery to be part of what we promote through our read aloud choices. So it’s time to move away from a day and week celebrating Seuss and into a focus on inclusive choices that more kids can relate to.īecause we cannot let nostalgia guide our decisions. Seuss can be both a beloved author AND ALSO problematic. Yet many schools still cling to the tradition without using a critical lens to consider what message the year after year celebration of just one author sends to students.
Seuss and to “Celebrating a Nation of Diverse Readers” – moving away from a singular focus on, and raising up of, one white male author who has a history of racist imagery* and toward a year-long celebration of the diversity that makes our country what it is. Seuss had his birthday on March 2nd thus original planners of the holiday wanted it to be near. Read Across America Day is held annually on a school day closest to March 2nd each year. Three years ago NEA changed the focus of Read Across America away from Dr. Read Across America Day for the year 2023 is celebrated/ observed on Thursday, March 2.
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