Teaching Umoja

20/04/2022

🗣️ 3 more days!!
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Come join us for this year's Black Earth Day! Together with , we'll be hosting garden activities for all ages, providing healthy meals and snacks from local Black vendors, giving out free green cleaning kits and plant starts that you can take home with you, and more!
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Date: 4/22/22⁣
Time: 2:00PM- 7:00PM⁣
Location: YES Farm | 727 Yesler Way, Seattle, WA 98104⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

03/05/2020

Teaching Umoja is a collection of strategies, ideas, and recommendations from parents, teachers, artists, families, community members, and youth about how to navigate the systems created by the dominant culture. These strategies help young children to become knowledgeable, well suited, armored, and prepared. This book is not the end of our Teaching Umoja Participatory Action Research.

11/03/2020

Chapter I: The Notion of Triliteracy
“The Story of the Teaching Umoja Learning Community.”

Chapter II: Enculturation
“Children Learn Their Own Language and Culture”

Chapter III: Rejecting Rejection
“Children Learn to Reject Negative Messages about Their Culture”

Chapter IV: Transculturation – The Science of Resistance
“Children learn histories and strategies of resistance used in their communities”

Chapter V: Power of the Home Language
“Children learn to understand, speak, read, write, and value their home language.”

Chapter VI: Biculturation
“Children learn the codes of power, language, and culture of the dominant society”
Chapter VI: Acculturation
“Children Learn the Language and Culture of another Community of Color”

Chapter VII: Teaching Umoja In Action
THE CONCEPTION AND BIRTH OF TODDLER HIP-HOP:
A STRATEGY FOR PARENTING CHILDREN OF AFRICAN DESCENT

21/03/2019

Col Sterling and 12 artists from Moore Town will be in Seattle this summer ... let us know if you would like to be involved ...

A segment from our show "Island Stylee" takes a look at the Maroons of Jamaica. We hear from Colonel Wallace Sterling, leader of the Moretown Maroons at the ...

06/03/2019

Save the Date

Oct 19, 20 & 21

10/02/2019

Grandy Nanny Day ... October 21, 2019

01/09/2015

Summer 2016 ...

20/02/2013

Who is coming?
Tenth Annual Teaching Umoja Summit, Port Royal, Jamaica: Saturday, April 20, 2013
“Cultural Expression, Sustainable Environments, and Teaching Young Children”
With a visit to Sunny Grove (Thursday, April 18) and Moore Town (Friday, April 19)