"Schools across the Alameda Unified School District are celebrating Black History Month with a wide range of activities related to this year's theme of health and wellness, including author visits; research into famous Black artists; scientists and politicians; and visits by prominent Black artists and professionals. Otis Elementary School, for instance, is holding a career panel of Black health professionals later this month."
"Paden Elementary School has invited author JaNay Brown-Wood to read her new picture book This Hair Belongs aloud to first-, second- and third-graders, while the school's fifth-graders will read One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia. Students in the Health and Wellness Seminar at ASTI are interviewing prominent Black people in the health and wellness industry as well as creating posters highlighting and celebrating unsung Black and African-American heroes in the health sciences."
"Love Elementary School is taking a holistic approach to the health theme by focusing on different activities at each grade levels. Transitional kindergarteners, kindergarteners and first-graders at Love Elementary are learning about the body wellness through hip-hop, line dancing and other types of joyful movement; second- and third-graders are learning about spiritual wellness through poetry and self-care. Additionally, the school's fourth- and fifth graders are focusing on the mind by studying Afrofuturism, mutual aid and ubuntu, a southern African theory of community and interdependence."
Alameda Unified School District schools focus Black History Month activities on health and wellness across grade levels. Programs include author visits, research into Black artists, studies of scientists and politicians, and visits from prominent Black artists and professionals. Otis Elementary will host a career panel of Black health professionals. Paden Elementary will feature author JaNay Brown-Wood and classroom readings. ASTI students are interviewing Black health and wellness figures and creating posters celebrating unsung Black heroes in the health sciences. Love Elementary emphasizes body, spiritual, and mental wellness through movement, poetry, Afrofuturism, mutual aid, and ubuntu. The district added community events, activities, and resources.
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