Educating While Black Deidra Lawson

We’ve all sat in the professional training that makes us scroll through our phones, run to the restroom, check our emails, and make our grocery list.

I’m sure the vision you have for the type of trainer you’d like to be isn’t described as redundant, monotonous, or impersonal on the end of session feedback form.

To be a dynamic facilitator, you need to offer dynamic experiences.

Here are 5 adjustments you can make at your next training that will leave a lasting positive impression on your participants. Educating While Black is a boutique consulting firm in Texas specializing in education design, research, and entrepreneurship.

Teach Your Brand is a business design and development process created for education entrepreneurship.

We help educators interested in creating new streams of income, start new careers, or found companies based in coaching, consulting, or development.

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Listen in on my conversation with Michelle Farris, owner of Shea by Michelle and veteran educator. Michelle Farris, current Dean of Academics and former counselor, discusses her views on education and what the Black community can do to support empowering and edifying our current generation of children. 

We discuss how he and his family approach the journey of educating their children at home and the importance of all parents taking responsibility for the mental fortitude and self-efficacy of our children.

Join me as Roygena Fortman and Tasha Sowells discuss their decision to homeschool their children and how to approach teaching your children from an individualized holistic space. 

Tasha is a Registered Nurse, Certified Case Manager, and certified Diabetes Educator. She has a passion for population health management, and thoroughly enjoys the relationships she builds with those she works with. She serves her community as a Certified Diabetes Educator through her independent contracting service Diabetes Management Support Services, LLC (launched in September 2019). Tasha is currently an Instructor at Texas College where she teaches Health. She started her personal  self care journey with Girl Trek in 2015. In 2016 she along with Lashonda Malrey-Horne began to rally other Black women and girls to join the movement. They are now community organizers for Girl Trek in Tyler. Within the last four years they have grown the movement and centered Black Women’s needs in the community.
Roygena graduated from Longview High School as a licensed cosmetologist and has been a certified nurse's aide for 21 years. She graduated from LeTourneau University with a bachelor's degree in education. She's been homeschooling her children for three years. Roygena and her husband, Kayon, are the founders of the Path Blazer Basketball Club in Tyler, Texas. It is a basketball and scholars program where students are supported in their educational endeavors and basketball skills training.  Find out more at www.krpathblazers.com 

Join me in a conversation with this dynamic husband and wife duo. One is a Literacy Specialist and the other is a secondary principal. Together they also serve their community through a faith-based youth group...Real Outreach. 

For The Culture Literacy:       Instagram: fortheculture_literacy   Twitter: @forthecultureL1

Real Outreach   Instagram: realoutreachhumble.  Facebook: Real Outreach Humble

Deidra Lawson interviews Melody Gerard, co-founder of For The Culture Literacy Development