In this episode, we welcome award-winning author and educational consultant Dr. Elondra Napper to the show. In our conversation, Dr. Napper will talk in depth about her personal journey as an educator, the release of her two new books ("My Name is Rona!" and "The Quarantine Chronicles), and the launch of the Champions STREAM Academy. To learn more about Dr. Napper's work, you can visit her website at www.encouragingchampionsllc.org or connect with her on the following social media platforms:
FACEBOOK - Encouraging Champions, LLC.
INSTAGRAM - @championeducator
TWITTER - @ElondraD
BIO:
Dr. Elondra D. Napper is an award-winning best-selling author, STREAMA (Science Technology Reading Engineering Arts, Music, Math and Agriculture) Educator and consultant for Encouraging Champions Consulting Firm. Dr. Napper has served in schools across the country for the last for 23 years as a teacher assistant, teacher, instructional coach, assistant principal, principal, teaching assistant professor, researcher, and consultant. Dr.Napper is a children’s book author who uses science standards and inquiry to teach scholars about science concepts while building their self esteem while reading a book about science! Her most recent books include My Name is Rona! The Quarantine Chronicles, Every Child Needs a Champion and Chloe the Confident Caterpillar.
Dr. Napper supports educators and educational leaders by teaching them how to incorporate science in guided reading instruction in elementary schools and in middle school classrooms using her curriculum and pedagogical model for teaching and learning called Science is LiT: Science Looks Like Me. Using evidence-based strategies and elements of instructional design, she supports educator’s development by using vocabulary, guided reading components and science inquiry into a lab environment to close the knowledge and culturally responsive gap while incorporating social and emotional strategies.
She has recently launched Champions STREAMA Academy, an online school for students to learn STREAMA (Science Technology Reading Engineering Arts, Music, Math and Agriculture). She is in the process of creating an online space to support teachers and administrators to receive professional development to support Professional Learning Communities specifically focused on instructional leadership, culturally responsive pedagogy and social- emotional learning. Dr. Napper believes that Every Child Needs a Champion and it is her mission to encouraging educators to exercise the champion in them so they can build the champion scholars in their classrooms and schools.
