(ThyBlackMan.com) STEAM is a growing educational initiative that encourages hands-on learning that is student centered in learning and teachers as facilitators not lecturers.  The involvement  of Scientific inquiry using experimentation, integration of  diverse Technologies to meet the needs of diverse learning  modalities, using design strategies for problem solving in Engineering, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) I went home to Columbus, Ohio this past weekend and learned a little more about my hometown. You see, I went to a high school football game with my friend to support her little brother. Let me paint the picture for you: Team 1: Suburbia Team 2: Inner-city The ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Summer break is at a conclusion, Labor Day festivities, traveling, cookouts, parties, and all the fun thrown in; the “business of education” begins for many schools across the nation. 180 days of learning, 180 days of educational strategies, curriculums, differential instruction, ESOL, Benchmarks, Common Core, reading initiates, state assessments ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The influence of HBCU’s and education can be seen in the 105 historically black colleges and universities educating 135,722 male and 238,685 female students across the United States this year alone. A new school year is beginning for HBCU’s, students are preparing to return to schools  across our nation. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Being a Social Media speaker and presenter one of the challenges when speaking to young people in high school or college is validation of what I’m sharing. The validation that I know what I’m talking about, they need to trust me and believe me when I give them facts ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) National Teacher’s Week was over two months ago, but what I have written below is not any less relevant. Dear Parents, Please know that we understand that you have the day-to-day responsibilities of being a parent to your child, but all I would like to offer is a simple ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Black students are learning the competition for jobs, internships, scholarships, grants and fellowships is fierce and competitive.  Teaching Black students how to use all the available tools of Social Media is necessary to Market and Brand themselves to get the attention of organizations, businesses, schools and individuals looking to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Contrary to popular belief, surviving the adversity of the Black community requires the ability to think. When I look back upon my life I can only imagine the contributions that some of my friends could have made to this society had they not succumb to the adversity of having ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Dre is one of the most successful entertainers in history, earning hundreds of millions of dollars by making great music.  Much of this music moves because he has been able to successfully package urban/black culture, selling it to audiences around the world.  One of the questions some have ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s graduation time and thousands of college grads are hopeful about what the future holds. For some, that future is a vision they can see clearly and for others, it’s fuzzy and they are just hoping for the best. If you are one of the thousands of graduates donning ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Now I want to make one thing clear. As a child I attended school. With that being said, I was educated at home. I say this because many of us do not or cannot see the difference between school and education. Schooling is just that, sending kids to a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The other day, I was speaking to someone about the forum that I am holding with Min Louis Farrakhan on Wealth, Education, Family and Community.  The topic that came up is the depth of black male marginalization and how millions of talented black men are left on the fringes ...