January 2021 Welcome to the monthly newsletter from Educate Youth. Our goal is to give you updates: on the happenings at the Clubhouse, a Student and Executive Director update, upcoming activities, and ways for you to be involved. EDUCATE YOUTH ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF NOTE: "Stuck in the Crib." This rap video developed by the EY students during the summer of 2020 won first prize in the A2Ethics competition for students talking to students about the Pandemic.  Stuck in the Crib written by students during the March-June Governors lock down. Watch the Video Online

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Mike Horne 2021 graduate at WSC Mike has been a participant with Educate Youth since 2018 and is now a Senior in High School. We asked three questions to get to know him.  1. What are three words to describe the 2020-2021 academic year. Ugly: there is a lot of violence.  Hard: staying in my lane  Challenging: keeping my focus on school because there are a lot of other things going on 2. What is it like to be a senior?  Weird. People are counting on me to do more. I am thinking about colleges and completing high school requirements. I am thinking of applying to: Ohio State, Eastern University and WCC. I am also completing the Common Application for HBCU’s. 3. Benefit of having the clubhouse open during Covid.  Students have a place to chill and to see one another. We trust one another to be Covid safe. Gail Wolkoff has been the director of the Educate Youth afterschool program since its inception and she has agreed to answer the same questions as her students. 1. What are three words to describe the 2020-2021 academic year. Change: due to Covid and the continual public displays of hate there have been constant changes in academics, social interactions and emotions Flexibility: due to the changes; I have had to be ready to make a change at any moment Strength: it has been hard; I often stop take a breath and center to gain inner strength  2. What is it like for me to witness a student become a senior? Amazing! I have had an inside view of the strength and sacrifices each student makes to graduate.  3. Benefit of having the clubhouse open during Covid. I witness students working on academics and supporting one another. When they are not in Virtual Classes they are enjoying being together.

Purchase Online Spiritual Warriors: Poems written during the Pandemic and Protests of 2020 by the Students of Educate Youth.    This first book of poetry written in conjunction with Elder and Mentor Dr. Richard W. Thomas is now available for purchase.

New this year, 2021:  Instrument lessons! The goal provide an instrument and private lessons to interested students. Each student has the opportunity to choose an instrument and to learn how to play.   Session One begins; January 11-April 1 Session Two begins April 5-June 4 Educate Youth lessons end for the summer. Fall 2021, private lessons will return.

Intergenerational reading of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning. Each Tuesday afternoon a group of readers comes together to discuss and to learn. Dr. Richard Thomas, Emeritus, shares his knowledge of African American History.

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