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Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to examine what your students need, whether it be representative books, positive attention or hygiene products, and try to find ways to meet those needs. The special agent assigned to help you with this task is LaTezeon Humphrey Balentine of Natchez, Mississippi.
LaTezeon is an incredibly inspiring teacher with one of the most open and giving hearts. I found her on Twitter where she always has motivating words, and many many books to give away to teachers and students. LaTezeon recently left classroom teaching to be an educational consultant at Education Galaxy, which provides online assessment, practice and instruction for students. She also has a children’s book, called “Fur Friends” coming out on April 24, 2020, with a percentage of her sales going to an animal shelter.
This interview involved a lot of firsts for me: the first interview with someone outside of Washington or British Columbia, the first online recording I’ve done, and the first time I’ve cried with my interviewee at the end of the interview.
Ms. Humphrey-Balentine’s goal is to provide two $200 book scholarships to students this coming June. Lesson: Impossible is happy to give $100, and will match up to another $100 that listeners are willing to give. So, if you donate through https://venmo.com/LaTezeon-Balentine and email me at aviva.levin@gmail.com or DM me at @avivalevin with how much you gave, I will add that to the total I will donate. Latezeon has given so much of her own money and time constantly, let’s help take a little of the burden off of her shoulders!
LINKS:
Donate to LaTezeon’s book scholarship: https://venmo.com/LaTezeon-Balentine
LaTezeon’s Website - www.lhbwithlove.com
LaTezeon’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/LHBLovesEDU
LaTezeon’s is an Educational Consultant for Education Galaxy: https://educationgalaxy.com
Books mentioned:
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
What Momma Left Me by Renée Watson
The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake and Jason Reynolds
Lesson: Impossible’s Website: www.lessonimpossible.com
Lesson: Impossible’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/avivalevin
If you have suggestions for a teacher that would make an inspiring Lesson: Impossible guest, please email me at aviva.levin@gmail.com
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