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AVL Rise - Building Literacy and Reimagining the Classroom
Best Practices in Education
English - July 15, 2022 18:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHow To Education Kids & Family Education for Kids education best practices educational resources administrative resources teacher training classroom support holistic education odyssey school elementary high school Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We close out the third season of Best Practices in Education with special guests from AVL Rise, a peer-to-peer literacy and mentorship program based in Asheville, North Carolina, which is funded through OpenDoors Asheville.
Program Director, David Kennedy, a Jamaican native, is a father, creative, music artist, writer, educator, and scholar. As an educator, he has over 7 years of experience at the primary, secondary and tertiary level as a Special Education and Social Studies teacher, also an Adjunct Lecturer, and was a certified professional teacher in two states, Florida and Colorado. David is joined in the studio by Toni and Kei'Shawn, ages 16 and 8, a student pair who participated in the program for the '21-22 school year.
AVL Rise uses youth culture pedagogy and hip hop elements to build cohesion and growth within its students and reimagine the classroom setting. Listen till the end to enjoy the original song, "Everyday We Rise," written and performed by David "Coppa Stone" Kennedy, Nex Millen, and Open Doors senior, Khalid Jean.