Francine Marchelle Consulting and Coaching, LLC
Welcomes You to All-Ways Learning
Coaching in Academic and Arts Education Directives
for effective in-school and out-of-school youth programs.
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Unlocking Potential through the Power of All-Ways Learning Workshops for Parents/Guardians, Leaders of Youth, and the Organizations that serve them.
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Francine is available to speak, coach, and share her personal journey with lessons learned over decades of leading in-school and out-of-school programs. The mission is to help adults help youth. The vision is to do the village work necessary to ensure youth in urban settings experience growth and development with holistic supports.
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Available Workshops Series
All-Ways Learning to Walk In My Shoes:
Helping youth organizations help families connect to their children.
All-Ways Learning Feature Story
Testing Brown Boys by Francine Marchelle, M.Ed.
October 2023
Most testing skills teach ways to memorize and recall. Youth need to learn the meaningfulness of learning. They need to understand the connectors for the application of learning. Connecting learning to their future for immediate success leads to improved connection. Brown boys need to be helped to understand why being challenged (tested) for what they should know at an incremental time matters.
Other factors play out too, especially due to the repression, suppression, and oppression that youth, especially brown boys experience having to deal with marginalization in schools and society at large. How can black boys value anything presented to them by those who seek to only measure brown boys ability to remember and regurgitate information. Brown boys narrative is being driven by those who are seeking institutional success and not the success of brown boys as a community of contributors to society.
Testing in the American education system tries to simulate some form of propagation to merely subjugate brown boys rather than stimulate and empower brown boys to participate innovatively in ways that are meaningful to their educational and societal success. The effects of the "need to pass a test" scenarios are overshadowed by the assumption that anyone and everyone can test well if focusing on 'test skills'. Testing does not prove one's ability to do.
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There is a need for a village of people who care enough about brown boys to work together with all of us who care about all of them. A structure of caring about the holistic being of young people, especially brown boys is necessary. We must ensure brown boys have a chance to navigate all the intentional levied deterrents presented as mainstream opportunity that brown boys are expected to not be positioned to successfully get through.