Celebrating Black History Month

2/13/2017

Happy February! This month, the students and I are learning so many things—and having such fun! With the younger students, we've been looking at books from acclaimed African American authors and illustrators, such as Jerry Pinkney and Jacqueline Woodson. Ask your child about Pinkney's wordless book, The Lion and the Mouse. Despite the fact that the book is exclusively illustrations, there are endless opportunities for conversation, exploration, and imagination.

With the older students, we’ve been reading about important, but sometimes overlooked, figures from history. Last week we read about the Loving family, whose challenge to Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage changed the course of American history. What’s more, they lived just a short distance away from our school on Neal Street NE.

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Mrs. Burton

From the moment I learned to read, I was hooked. Books are magical, wondrous, and available to us all. They are the great equalizer, enlightener, and illuminator, and it’s my goal to spark that same love in all of my students.

After graduating with a BA in English from Georgetown University (Hoya Saxa!), I moved to New York where I worked as a magazine editor for three years. After a stint in Chicago as a book editor, my husband and I moved back to DC. I took a job as an editor at Reading Is Fundamental and my life was changed! I wrote and edited numerous pieces about the importance of early childhood literacy, and the more I researched and wrote about the issue, the more I felt that I needed to be a part of things at the ground level. So I went to the University of Maryland and got my MLS (Master of Library Science). For four years, I was the librarian at Eagle Academy PCS, and it is such a thrill to see that some of my former Eagle students are now at Ludlow-Taylor!

I live in Takoma Park, MD, with my husband, daughter (9), and son (5).

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