PO605: Reading and Relating: Empowering Black Girls Through Bonds and Books

  • PMD: 3,6
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 8: Promoting Academic Success

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. learn about the impact of culturally responsive interventions;
  2. understand the impact of lived experiences on the academic identity of Black girls; and
  3. better conceptualize the importance of creating safe spaces for minoritized students.

Description

The impact of conducting a culturally relevant peer-mediated repeated reading intervention to enhance literacy and affirm the academic identity of Black girls in a community-based after-school program.

Presenter(s)

Josalyn A. Foster, University of Cincinnati

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