Building Blocks To Leadership For Young Boys Of Color: Middle School Edition - Paperback

by David Morrow Ed D. (Author), Steve P. Jefferson Ed D. (Author)

Aiding young men of color with the building blocks of leadership is a necessary tool and the BuildingBlocks Workbook uses the Common Standards of education to aid in this journey of discovery for young minds in need of character and consciousness. As educators, we recognize the silent genocide in America as it strikes at high-level stressors for young African American youth. Black Americans experience higher cardiovascular and metabolic disease, comparatively, than any other population on Earth according to the World Health Organization. This is not a coincidence, but a consequence of being Black in America. The human journey is not easy, and destiny can be difficult to embrace. For Black America, a silent genocide mounts within . . . This is not an issue back ordered from Amazon. This is about circumnavigating a difficult juncture in our nation's social history. We are in this place because we are not Europe, Asian, African and Oceania, South American, Australian, and Canadian, Central American or Mexican; we are all of them.

Author Biography

Authors: Steve P. Jefferson, Ed. D. and David Morrow, Ed. D. Jefferson and Morrow together have more than 30 years of experience in education, school leadership and community organizing on behalf of children at risk living in high-risk neighborhoods and unconventional homes due to circumstance and inherent neighborhood living, not necessarily due to their own choices. These children of education need a safe haven and the tools of preparation to achieve. Jefferson and Morrow have led public education mega charter schools and created community organizations designed to supplement leadership where these students may be lacking such guidance at home or in their neighborhoods.