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Sparking Academic Excellence And Positive Self-Esteem Among NYC's Youngest Learners

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Fela Barclift

Sparking Academic Excellence And Positive Self-Esteem Among NYC's Youngest Learners

Year

2021

Publication

USA Today

Kids develop views on race when they're young. Here's how some preschools are responding.

On one of their first days back to school, a group of 3-year-olds at Little Sun People preschool in Brooklyn, New York, spent the morning learning how to write their names. On sheets of construction paper, they filled in the…
“I was proud of who I was and who I would grow up to be, because all the teachers and the people at Little Sun People made me feel confident in my skin and my hair and everything else.⁠”
Xavia Edghill
Former Little Sun People Student

Update from winner

Fela Barclift
This is Fela Barclift, a.k.a. affectionately as “Mama Fela”, the founder and director of my nursery school, @littlesunpeople!

Publication

Our Time Press

Mama Fela Barclift announces 2024 retirement from Little Sun People

After 43 years of gently cultivating the minds of thousands of Black children in Brooklyn, the beloved Mama Fela Barclift recently announced that she is stepping down from heading Little Sun People, the African-centered presc…

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