COSEBOC

Our May eNews offers a refreshing and impactful summer opportunity for men of color who work with middle and high schools. Discovering Rituals, Understanding Manhood (D.R.U.M.) introduces teams of male educators to the Rites of Passage experience and prepares them to incorporate the D.R.U.M. framework into their own program for boys and young men of color.

“This [course] is needed throughout the schools in our district. Many are struggling to connect to Black boys, and this would be tremendously helpful.”
~Course Participant

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Spring is a time to contemplate summer plans and our April eNews shares that COSEBOC is excited to offer you and your team the opportunity to elevate your educational aspirations with one (or all) of our Professional Development offerings. Read more!
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COSEBOC Standards Course for Schools Educating Boys of Color is the foundational course that we recommend as a starting point for all teams. School teams ranging from Pre-K to high school will use the standards to identify strengths and challenges in seven core areas and will develop action plans as part of the course. bit.ly/3PkaVod

COSEBOC offers a professional development series for teams of educators and/or community members, featuring three signature courses, promoting equity and excellence for all students, particularly by focusing on the education and empowerment of boys and young men of color. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3xCpSve

This we honor Zora Neale Hurston, celebrated Harlem Renaissance writer. Learn about this brilliant, enigmatic, visionary, gifted, contradictory, and determined woman in the PBS in-depth biography, Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space, and discover how her groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century. https://to.pbs.org/4aJqq0z

Celebrating on the birthday of Maya Angelou, memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. A literary and cultural icon, she is perhaps best known for her book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and her oft-cited poem “Still I Rise,” part of which she recites in this trailer, https://bit.ly/43JUXJo

Celebrating with one of our own, Robin Harris! Robin is a lifelong educator and avid believer that learning takes places outside of the four walls of a classroom. Here at COSEBOC she is Professional Learning Facilitator for our foundational course, COSEBOC Standards for Educating Boys of Color. More about Robin here: bit.ly/3vmjnw5

Our March eNews is a celebration of Women’s History, underscoring how we could not do this challenging work at COSEBOC without our sister partners. So today we set a framework of gratitude for these pillars of our organization, and the many others prior to their time. Who are you celebrating this month? Read it here: https://conta.cc/4aqiFwy

Celebrating with one of our own! Extending our lens from the past to the present, and from well-known to lesser-known women heroines, today we introduce another of our very own Professional Development Facilitators, Gene Thompson-Grove! Gene works with educators to create school cultures that support transformational learning. With over 40+ years of experience leading seminars on educational/racial equity and creating intentional learning communities, Gene is gifted at designing and facilitating adult, collaborative learning experiences. COSEBOC is deeply grateful for what she brings to our vision, mission and - yes - to our COSEBOC family!
More about Gene: https://bit.ly/4946Vij

From the NYTimes: A century ago, a dinner party in New York set in motion one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century. It was barely covered at the time, but the NYTimes explored archival material and have reconstructed much of it. In the years after the dinner party, Black writers published more than 40 volumes of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. https://nyti.ms/3VyxCbT

59 years ago today, March 21, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. began the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama with 3,200 civil rights demonstrators beginning a historic march that changed the tide of history. https://bit.ly/43IJpXb

Celebrating internationally celebrated artist Joan Baez. Of Scottish (her mother) and Mexican (her father) descent, Baez's distinctive vocal style and political activism had a significant impact on American popular music. She is woven into the fabric of consciousness as one of the first musicians to use her popularity as a vehicle for social protest, singing and marching for human rights and peace. Documentary trailer: bit.ly/3wY7rAR