# data[].attributes.headline
the Emilie Davis Diaries: Teaching through Local and Social Black Histories

# data[].attributes.subject
the Emilie Davis Diaries: Teaching through Local and Social Black Histories

# data[].attributes.body
CREATED BY ABIGAIL HENRY, SCHOMBURG FELLOW AND FOUNDER OF THEBLKCABINET

This is a full lesson plan on the Emilie Davis diaries, a free Black woman living in Philadelphia during the Civil War. It contains several primary sources to help students understand the perspective of a free Black woman on abolition, military service, and Black social life.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Emilie Davies Lesson: Teaching Through Local and Social Black Histories

# data[].attributes.body
1. Add a link that will take user to ALL presentation materials

2. Set a background image that relates to presentatoin

3. PUT YOUR TITLE AND POSITION HERE

4. Provide a 1-2 sentence description here.

(look at Emile Davis for exemplar)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Genealogical Research Seminar Dr. Suad Lawrence Islam, Ph. D. (1)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Blackprint Presentation - Raised by Philly (1)

# data[].attributes.headline
Educating for Liberation: Co-Creating and Sustaining the (In)Visible Architects of Freedom Digital Archive

# data[].attributes.subject
Educating for Liberation: Co-Creating and Sustaining the (In)Visible Architects of Freedom Digital Archive

# data[].attributes.body
Dr. Kelli Racine Barnes, ACE Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow

The presentation discusses the development and current progress of the (In)Visible Architects of Freedom: African Americans in Early Philadelphia Digital Archive. A collaboration between Independence National Historical Park and the Philadelphia School District's African American History Teacher Cohort, this project is designed with and for educators and students.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Educating for Liberation_Co-Creating and Sustaining the (In)Visible Architects of Freedom Digital Archive

# data[].attributes.headline
Rethinking Civil Rights Teaching through a People's History of the March on Washington

# data[].attributes.subject
Rethinking Civil Rights Teaching through a People's History of the March on Washington

# data[].attributes.body
CREATED BY ADAM SANCHEZ, MANAGING EDITOR OF RETHINKING SCHOOLS

By shifting the focus from the stage to those who came to the March on Washington because they were participating in various local struggles around the country this lesson helps us find new meaning and relevance in a familiar story and uncovers a more complex and more relevant Civil Rights Movement.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
Commissioner Jesse Campbell, Environmental Leadership & Out of School Opportunities Coordinator

# data[].attributes.headline
Freedom-Making: How Black Youth Are Reimagining Power, Policy & Participation

# data[].attributes.subject
Freedom-Making: How Black Youth Are Reimagining Power, Policy & Participation

# data[].attributes.body
I work at the intersection of environmental justice, youth leadership, and public policy — helping Black youth transform research into real civic power. My work centers freedom-making as a daily practice inside schools and public systems.

# data[].attributes.headline
Respect the Technique: Hip-Hop as a Tool for Critical Thinking and Literacy

# data[].attributes.subject
Respect the Technique: Hip-Hop as a Tool for Critical Thinking and Literacy

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Respect the Technique: Hip-Hop as a Tool for Critical Thinking and Literacy

# data[].attributes.headline
Becoming the Community's Medicine: The Importance of Personal Development for Excellent Teaching

# data[].attributes.subject
Becoming the Community's Medicine: The Importance of Personal Development for Excellent Teaching

# data[].attributes.body
In general, medicine is anything that is good for you. As educators, we have the responsibility to develop into better people so that our students can be better than we are. Knowing oneself is liberation. "We are who we teach."

# data[].attributes.body
By: Joi' C. Weathers. MFA

This presentation argues that Black history is NOT anecdotal to the American canon; it is foundational. Not only do I highlight how Black history has been marginalized within dominant narratives, but I also highlight modern-day change agents and cultural historians who are preserving and circulating Black culture through alternative methodologies.

I am demonstrating how reclaiming Black memory confronts erasure, reshapes democratic understanding, and reasserts Black history as structurally central to America’s past, present, and future.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
But, What of the Stones I Made (2.6.26)-2.pdf

# data[].attributes.body
The future belongs to all of us and the current time, the current moment, belongs to you. Be your own greatness.

# data[].attributes.headline
Listening To Tomorrow: A Mini Futures Literacy Lab on Black Education

# data[].attributes.subject
Listening To Tomorrow: A Mini Futures Literacy Lab on Black Education

# data[].attributes.body
T.J. Dean, AfroFuturist

Futures Literacy is a skill to better understand the role of the future in what we see and do. My goal is to help us decolonize the future to empower us in the present moment.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Exploring the Use of Historical Critical Consciousness Circles in Educator Preparation and Development

# data[].attributes.headline
"Can We Tell a Better Story?" Teaching Complex Histories Through Inquiry

# data[].attributes.subject
"Can We Tell a Better Story?" Teaching Complex Histories Through Inquiry

# data[].attributes.body
Created by Dr. Charisse - Sankofa Educational Consulting LLC. This is a Padlet provides participants with a slide decks Participant Packet, Inquiry Toolkit, IDM Blueprints, Teacher Resources, Student Featured Sources, and Contact Information. This session is highly interactive-so get ready to work!

https://padlet.com/sankofaeducationalconsulting/resources-can-we-tell-a-better-story-using-inquiry-to-teach--lct3pl592undjl7j

# data[].attributes.headline
From the Fields to Freedom Schools: Charlotte Forten Grimké, the Gullah Geechee, and Black Education by Keziah Sarah Ridgeway

# data[].attributes.subject
From the Fields to Freedom Schools: Charlotte Forten Grimké, the Gullah Geechee, and Black Education by Keziah Sarah Ridgeway

# data[].attributes.body
This workshop uses the profound observations of Reconstruction-era educator Charlotte Forten Grimké to frame a discussion on how to reclaim and reimagine Black education today. Forten Grimké, a Northern Black abolitionist who taught the formerly enslaved Gullah Geechee people on the Sea Islands, documented the unwavering desire for knowledge in a pivotal moment of American history.

Centering the quote: “I never before saw children so eager to learn... The older ones... work in the fields from early morning until eleven or twelve o’clock, and then come into school... as bright and as anxious to learn as ever,” the proposal argues that true educational reclamation must honor the Black intellectual tradition born of resistance and sacrifice. We explore how this historical moment offers a blueprint for modern, culturally sustaining, and joyous pedagogical practices.

# data[].attributes.headline
Global Histories, Local Classrooms: Teaching Radical Black Movements in the United Kingdom

# data[].attributes.subject
Global Histories, Local Classrooms: Teaching Radical Black Movements in the United Kingdom

# data[].attributes.body
Created by Ariel Simone Alford Social Studies Educator, Curriculum Writer, and Prentiss Charney Fellow

This presentation introduces Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action initiative, with special attention “Globalism”. The presentation centers the significance of Black British history and organizing past & present.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Teaching Radical Black Movements in the U.K.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
Remember Why We Started: Using the History of Black Public Education to Re-Engage and Restore the Identity of the Student Populace and Schoolhouse Community 

# data[].attributes.body
Researched, Created, and Curated by Jermaine Carl Robinson, M.Ed., M.A.--Educator-- Anthropologist--Historian--Artist

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
J. Robinson Presentation - Black Public Education History to Restore

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Check out this Presentation designed by Jermaine Robinson.

# data[].attributes.headline
Lessons from the Underground: BlackPrint20 2026

# data[].attributes.subject
Lessons from the Underground: BlackPrint20 2026

# data[].attributes.body
The Cadence of Social Impact is a black owned mission-driven consulting practice that provides organizational development and change management services including facilitation, leadership development, and strategy design while reinvesting profits into micro-grants and community initiatives. Rooted in public health, racial equity, and social justice, this workshop, “Lessons from the Underground: Learning from Maroon Communities, Hush Harbors & Black Fugitive Pedagogy,” examines how Black communities have historically taught, learned, and survived under conditions of surveillance, violence, and erasure. At a time when Black history and truth-telling are under direct attack, the session connects past freedom traditions to present-day practice, offering educators and facilitators concrete strategies to protect learning spaces, teach creatively, preserve knowledge, and sustain collective care in hostile political climates.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Lessons from the Underground: BlackPrint20 2026

# data[].attributes.headline
Rooted Wisdom: How Black Teaching Traditions Align with Brain Science and Best Practices

# data[].attributes.subject
Rooted Wisdom: How Black Teaching Traditions Align with Brain Science and Best Practices

# data[].attributes.body
Connect with me. I'd love to collaborate.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crystalyn-thomas-davis-88932132b/

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Public Facing Culturally Relevant Project Based Learning

# data[].attributes.headline
Teaching U.S. History Through A Black Resistance Filter

# data[].attributes.subject
Teaching U.S. History Through A Black Resistance Filter

# data[].attributes.body
Black resistance is the present and active work to prevent or subvert ongoing oppression of all Black people in a systemically racist society and/or hierarchical structure. This presentation supports educators in teaching U.S. History through a lens of Black resistance.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Teaching U.S. History Through a Black Resistance Filter

# data[].attributes.body
Know Thyself: Ubuntu, Pan-Africanism, and the Inner Work of Leadership

# data[].attributes.headline
#BlackInvestmentClubsMatter - (8) Reasons to  follow Rev. Leon H. Sullivan's "10-36 Plan" and Join a Black Investment Club for Blackprint 20

# data[].attributes.subject
#BlackInvestmentClubsMatter - (8) Reasons to  follow Rev. Leon H. Sullivan's "10-36 Plan" and Join a Black Investment Club for Blackprint 20

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
#BlackInvestmentClubsMatter - (8) Reasons to  follow Rev. Leon H. Sullivan's _10-36 Plan_ and Join a Black Investment Club for Blackprint 20

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
Dr. Stephanie Joy Tisdale- The Blueprint: 19th-Century Black Educators in Philadelphia

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
BlackPrint_19th C. Black Educators_Stephanie Joy Tisdale

# data[].attributes.headline
Through, Past, and Around: Black Educators’ Fugitive Inheritance and Enactments

# data[].attributes.subject
Through, Past, and Around: Black Educators’ Fugitive Inheritance and Enactments

# data[].attributes.body
Sciatta Padmore, former K–12 English teacher and a doctoral student in the Culturally Sustaining Education program at the University of Washington

This session explores how Black educators continue to reclaim, reimagine, and remake education as a practice of liberation using fugitive pedagogies.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
BlackPrint20 Through, Past, and Around_ Black Educators’ Fugitive Inheritance and Enactments

# data[].attributes.body
Dr. Tawanna Jones

we REIGN Inc.

Executive Director

This session offers a framework for contributing to the sociopolitical development of children, with a focus on Black Girls, in ways that minimize adultification and harm.

# data[].attributes.headline
Beyond Erasure: Reclaiming Black Girlhood as Freedom Work

# data[].attributes.subject
Beyond Erasure: Reclaiming Black Girlhood as Freedom Work

# data[].attributes.body
Created by Darien Headen, Ed.D Candidate, University of Pennsylvania, and Founder/Principal Strategist of Integrated Impact Solutions. This session interrogates the systemic forces that shape Black girls’ educational experiences, examining how intersecting dynamics of race, gender, and power produce patterns of erasure, adultification, and disciplinary pushout in schools. Grounded in Black feminist thought, critical race theory, and Black girlhood studies, the presentation offers a research-informed and praxis-oriented framework for reimagining schools as liberatory spaces that center belonging, healing, and the intellectual and cultural brilliance of Black girls.

# data[].attributes.headline
Freedom Speaks A Lesson in Resistance and Historical Consciousness

# data[].attributes.subject
Freedom Speaks A Lesson in Resistance and Historical Consciousness

# data[].attributes.body
Thank you to all who attended and participated in the conversation. The fight for equity and justice is ongoing, and the way communication is taught and administered is an essential tool in the ongoing battle against systemic bias, racism, and anti-Blackness.

It is my hope that you begin to understand Public speaking as a living practice of freedom—dynamic, responsive, and essential for enduring social change —not as mere performance, but as an ethical practice of truth-telling, resilience, and empowerment.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Freedom Speaks A Lesson in Resistance and Historical Consciousness

# data[].attributes.body
Workshop Title: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Fueling Equity, Excellence, and Engagement

In the spirit of Blackprint 20: Education as the Practice of Freedom, this workshop invites educators to reclaim and reimagine Black education through the transformative lens of culturally relevant pedagogy. Grounded in the work of Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings and infused with restorative, equity-centered practice, this session explores how teaching that affirms identity, honors lived experience, and cultivates critical consciousness can ignite academic excellence and civic engagement among Black learners.

Participants will engage in interactive dialogue and reflective exercises that illuminate the power of culturally relevant teaching to disrupt deficit narratives and foster liberatory learning environments. We will examine how curriculum, instruction, and classroom culture can be restructured to center Black brilliance, resilience, and voice—moving beyond inclusion toward intentional empowerment.

This workshop will equip educators with practical strategies to:

Design learning experiences that reflect students’ cultural knowledge and community assets

Foster deep engagement through affirming, student-centered pedagogy

Integrate civic advocacy and social justice into academic content

Build classroom communities rooted in trust, relevance, and high expectations