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08/26/2026

Curriculum literally means "to run a race." 🏃🏾‍♂️💨

So here's how we line up at Ọmọ́wálé Speaks:
📘 Grammar = GET READY
✍🏾 Writing = GET SET
📖 Poetry = GO.

Our scholars are off the blocks, and they're not looking back.

Omowale Speaks. Let's go. 🏁🔥

08/25/2026

A grammar book shouldn’t just be a stack of worksheets—it should be a ladder. 🪜 I built this curriculum with a "low floor, high ceiling" approach because I know my scholars come from different backgrounds. Whether you’re filling gaps or building a foundation, this book meets you where you are and takes you further. 📚✨

08/21/2026

Why is your middle schooler’s ELA grade sinking, no matter how hard they “try”?

It’s not an effort problem. It’s a design flaw. 🧵

In math, topics are separate doors. A struggle with fractions doesn’t lock you out of geometry. Clean slate.

But ELA? It’s a funnel. Every weakness—decoding, spelling, vocabulary—gets shoved into one high-stakes moment: The Essay. All at once. No hiding.

Malcolm X understood this decades ago. His radical solution? Copying the dictionary by hand. He knew that if you don’t rebuild the foundation, the house will always crack under pressure. 🖊️📖

That’s the blueprint for Omawale Speaks.

A Black intellectual bootcamp rooted in rigor and reconstruction.
Three terms. Grammar. Writing. Poetry.
Not a band-aid for the bottleneck.
A dismantling.
Your child’s confidence shouldn’t be the cost of a broken system.

Ready to rebuild that foundation? Drop “FOUNDATION” in the comments for more info.
And share this to a parent who needs the reminder: it’s the system, not their kid. 🤎

08/20/2026

Malcolm X didn't wait for permission to master English. He built it, brick by brick. 🧱

That’s the blueprint for Omowale Speaks: A year-long ELA journey for grades 6–8.

📚 Three seasons (Fall, Winter, Spring)
✍🏾 Grammar. Writing. Poetry.
📝 Application required. No essay. No audition. No tests.

Just rigorous study, small cohorts, and a deep dive into the intellectual tradition of the man who became "the one who molds."

Seats are limited. Are you ready?

08/19/2026

Malcolm X didn't wait for permission to master English. He built it, brick by brick. 🧱

That’s the blueprint for Omowale Speaks: A year-long ELA journey for grades 6–8.
📚 Three seasons (Fall, Winter, Spring)
✍🏾 Grammar. Writing. Poetry.
📝 Application required. No essay. No audition. No tests.

Just rigorous study, small cohorts, and a deep dive into the intellectual tradition of the man who became "the one who molds."
Seats are limited. Are you ready?

08/18/2026

In celebration of Marcus Garvey, we're sending a message straight to our young people as school starts. 🔴⚫️🟢

You are the future of our people. Walk into that classroom with pride, purpose, and the Red, Black, and Green in your heart. We believe in you. Now go make this year count!

Interact here (Best on laptops)
🔗 https://kotoko.info/message

$A band-aid on a fractured wall is a lie we both agree to believe.It looks fixed. For a moment. But the crack is still un...$

08/17/2026

A band-aid on a fractured wall is a lie we both agree to believe.

It looks fixed. For a moment. But the crack is still underneath, widening in the dark, waiting for the next pressure.

Ọmọ́wálé Malcolm X refused the lie. He didn't cover the gaps in his education. He sat down in a prison cell and rebuilt his foundation by hand. Word by word. Brick by brick.

That's the blueprint behind Ọmọ́wálé Speaks.

Reconstruction over band-aids. Every time.

Comment FOUNDATION. The gap won't fix itself.

08/16/2026

Semester two of Omowale Speaks begins in January: Writing.

In the fall, your child copied the dictionary. They studied the bones of language—parts of speech, sentence structure, the architecture Malcolm X built first.

Now the bones become muscle.

✍️ Winter: Writing. Arguments. Essays. Speeches. Your child learns to build a claim and make it land. To write something true and make it impossible to ignore.

This is not the five-paragraph essay of standardized tests. This is writing as witness. Writing as power.

The foundation was laid in fall. The voice begins to rise in winter.

08/15/2026

And here. It. IS. ✨📚

Our official grammar companion for Ọmọ́wálé Speaks Fall semester — cover revealed! The hype is REAL. Who else is counting down to Fall? 🍂🔥

Drop a 🙌🏾 if you're ready!

Apply today 👉 kotoko.info/malcolmx

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