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TIME to Change the “SINGLE” story about minorities!

TIME to Change the “SINGLE” story about minorites!

Good day fellow bloggers,

the link I posted today is to an article in the NY Sunday Times regarding the poor number of children’s books featuring colored protagonists. I for one here on “Building Better Biliterates” am trying to build awareness for the same literary crisis in Latin America, in particular Honduras, the country that is now my new home.

The article cites that the typical stories representing young colored kids are generally related to their extreme hardships during slavery or the civil rights movements, the darkness of the material being a discourager for young readers. Even here in Honduras one of the greatest books published by a local author is “Green Prision” by Ramon Amado Amador about oppression during the highs of the banana farming industry.

I agree that it is important to learn of our hardships and our spirit of survival but there are also other beautiful stories of true love, romance, family loyalty, togetherness etc that celebrate the culture of minorites. WE NEED TO KEEP INSPIRING OUR YOUNG TO WRITE AND CHANGE THE SINGLE STORY OF despair, depression, hardship, abuse etc. In 2014 there are so many new heroes and heroines to celebrate and so many picturesque places to challenge the creativity of our children’s imagination.

In Honduras, we have the problem of poor literacy numbers- reality:  most lower class citizens can sign their name and do just enough to get a menial job- A READING CULTURE does not exisit- they either have no time or no interest because it seems too difficult to do. In my company we created the ESL game CBC CODEBREAKER with the hopes of making grammar FUN, EASY and UNFORGETTABLE for young ones so they can go beyond just simple classwork and WRITE THEIR OWN STORY!

HELP US SPREAD THE WORD OF CBC CODEBREAKER so we can INSPIRE NEW IDEAS AND FIRE THE IMAGINATION OF A ONCE UPON A TIME DOWNTRODDEN PEOPLE!

Fulfilling the unkept Promise of Education!

Fulfilling the unkept Promise of Education!

Californians Together is a statewide coalition of parents, teachers, education advocates and civil rights groups committed to securing equal access to quality education for all children.

Founded in 1998 after the passage of Proposition 227, Californians Together joined with other organizations to foster full participation in a democratic society through quality education for children and parents from underserved communities.

Our Mission

Californians Together believes that all children are equal and have a right to a quality education to fully participate economically, intellectually, politically and socially in a democratic society.

Californians Together aims for an educational system that is funded and is structured so every child will have full access to a high quality curriculum and will graduate from our public schools with:

· Mastery of the core curriculum;
· Preparation for higher education;
· Knowledge and skills for productive workforce participation;
· Communication and literacy skills in more than one language;
· Informational and technological literacy;
· Connections to their families and communities;
· Skills for full civic participation;
· Cross-cultural skills and knowledge.

JOIN the BILITERACY Movement in HONDURAS

JOIN the BILITERACY Movement in HONDURAS

Being bilingual is NOT ENOUGH anymore! We need proficient professional capable of more than just ordering lunch at a restaurant or passing through an airport. We need bilingual thinkers who can appreciate the richness of both languages without losing their sense of national identity. Biliteracy will change how we acquire a 2nd language! Get your FREE DEMO now! Write us at cbctutor@grupomaraj.com or call us at 504-2540-1306. 

Building Better Biliterates is a TOP Story in Education!

Building Better Biliterates is a TOP Story in Education!

 

The Distinctive Choice Daily features our Blog in their Top Stories for Education! More people are becoming aware of the DIFFERENCE between BILITERATE and bilingual. SPREAD the WORD invite us to your school or community we can show you how to become BETTER BILITERATES in Spanish, English and French!  

CBC Inspiring Teachers to INSPIRE

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This is our presentation in SPANISH to the Minister of Education in Hondnuras sent in 2010. We were able to meet with the then Minister Alejandro Calderon, who approved an appointment with the National Committee for Bilingual Education- a year and a half ago!!!! 

Now there is a new Minister: Marlon Escoto and I would like to get another opportunity to show them our project.

Help us take action on TWITTER: Please Re-tweet #citarcbctutorsue @escoto_marlon FOR BETTER #BILITERATES in #Honduras

Teachers are cu…

Teachers are cultural workers (Freire, 2000) and their cultural insensitivities can negatively affect the lives of the children they teach. If teachers are committed to the process of becoming interculturally sensitive and understand the complexity of their students’ cultures (Chen, 1997) then they make a positive impact on the lives of their students.

I have been living this reality for the last 13 years. I also beleive it is the root of my success as a “cosmopolitan” teacher! I speak speak 2 languges fluently, I can read and write in 3.5 languages, I know basic expressions in couple others….it allows me to have a more open-mind as a teacher- it is a humbling experience the Learning another language!