Registration Closed – Spring 2024 Implementing a Culturally Responsive Practice Workshop
Registration for the Spring 2024 Implementing a Culturally Responsive Practice is now closed. Look out for our fall session coming in October.
Young Storytellers Summer Intensive
Applications for the Young Storytellers Summer Intensive in partnership with Parker-Morrison Productions are now open. Space is limited apply today at http://tinyurl.com/ysintensive
2021-2022 Kamau Imani Parker Morrison Teacher Scholarship Winners!
The William J. Watkins, Sr. Educational Institute is pleased to announce its winners for the 2021-22 Kamau Imani Parker Morrison Teaching Scholarship. This year's pool had two applicants with very deserving qualifications so the committee decided to award the scholarship to both recipients, Alicia Hewlett and Paiton Moloy. Alicia Hewlett is completing her training at Coppin State University in Baltimore [...]
Re-envisioning The “Middle Passage” Resources
Middle Passage Resources […]
2019 – 2020 Kamau Imani Parker-Morrison Teaching Scholarship Winner!
Congratulations to Kayla Fointno, the winner of the inaugural award of the Kamau Imani Parker-Morrison Scholarship competition. Kayla is a senior at North Carolina A&T State University. Kayla will be graduating in December of 2019. She has a 3.52 GPA and is on the Dean's List. Kayla refers to a teacher she had in the fourth grade, Mrs. Anderson, [...]
Challenges of Teaching African American History in US Public Schools: Reflections on 30 Years of Teaching
This post is based on a roundtable discussion I participated in at the 2015 African Heritage Studies Association Conference in New York City, NY. My oldest son, Akil Parker, was also a member of that panel speaking on his experience as a math teacher. Introduction This paper is a reflection on my more than 30 years of working as a [...]