PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The Philadelphia Free Library will be extending its display celebrating Black educators through the end of the year.<\/p>\n
The Teaching Freedom Display is showcasing Philadelphia\u2019s Black Dreamkeepers in an exhibit at the Parkway Central Library, honoring 50 years of Black educators from 1976 to 2026.<\/p>\n
Dr. Guy Sims, the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the Free Library of Philadelphia, says, \u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity for people to come by and see how people took their educational practices and brought alternatives to the people of Philadelphia.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sims comes from a family of educators: his father was a professor and administrator at Montgomery County Community College, and his mother was a Philadelphia school teacher who last taught at Frederick Douglass Elementary in North Philadelphia. <\/p>\n
Sims\u2019 mother taught in the kind of classroom highlighted by the Black Dreamkeepers exhibit, modeled after the one-room schoolhouse, and which catered to multiple age groups from one community. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou might have had an older person who maybe\u2026 didn\u2019t excel or didn\u2019t progress through,\u201d Sims explained. \u201cIt was their opportunity\u2026 to be a part of a school and get the level of education that they needed before they could move on to something else.\u201d<\/p>\n
Through photos and audiovisual displays, the exhibit showcases a number of different schools like this in Philadelphia. <\/p>\n
The goal of these schools, Sims said, was, \u201cTo build a cultural consciousness\u2026 in how we\u2019re teaching our children beyond the ABCs and one-two-threes, but to build their character, to build their cultural content.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sims hopes that visitors\u2019 takeaway from the exhibit will inspire people to come up with new paths to an education that supplements the basics with culture and character.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia\u2019s Black Dreamkeepers exhibit will be on display in the West Gallery of the Parkway Central Library at 1901 Vine Street from now until Dec. 31. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The Philadelphia Free Library will be extending its display celebrating Black educators through the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12910,227,111853,69,71,70,23941],"class_list":["post-328192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-black-history","tag-education","tag-parkway-central-library","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}