Build a Public High School on St. John, USVI

Thank you Ann Sewer for this amazing book that has become this summer workshop's biggest hit among workshop students in the 4th Annual St. John Outdoor Love City Learning Summer Creative Arts & Literacy Workshop© 2024! I think it is time for a summer book fair where children get to select amazing colorful fun-filled words inside amazing books that they can begin to create home libraries by borrowing books with other friends' home libraries!

Dr. Sewer's Storytime©
I could not do this storytime every day without my workshop leaders, who are amazing at helping some workshop students with their reading activity that follows each read-aloud. No one is left alone. These reading activities are part of a bigger curriculum designed by Dr. Sewer specifically for this population on St. John to experience an interactive and engaging Love City Learning experience where reading, writing, listening, and learning by play are on the menu!

Dr. Sewer's Storytime©
Learning about the color wheel with this amazing book!
Beginning with the color blue, we explored the colors that make blue (yellow and green) and learned a little history of this amazing color and its link to a time when the indigo industry oftentimes involved the enslavement of people to produce these beautiful blue dyes. To learn more about having Dr. Sewer read to your class, group, organization, or club just go to www.neguseducation.com See you at the library!

Sewer Sisters

Children need a place where they can feel safe to learn and discover who they are, what they like or do not like, what they love, and what they are good at… It is our job to create that space for children, free from judgement and full of love.
– Samuel Broaden, “Gender Expression in Early Childhood: How to Support All Children in our Classrooms”

Workshop students are learning about themselves through my own ancestral heritage on St. John. Here is Noble Samuel, my paternal great-uncle, who was a National Park Ranger. Through the Friends of the Park newly created scholarship named in my great uncle's honor, The Noble Samuel Scholar spoke to workshop students and they created their own pictures of themselves in their "dream job" or "dream business" as they learn about financial literacy.
https://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/news/scholarship-to-carry-on-noble-samuels-legacy/article_d3b12a05-5039-5ad5-a818-5c6e1d4cd955.html

Our theme this year for the 4th Annual St. John Outdoor Love City Learning Summer Creative Arts & Literacy Workshop© 2024 has always been "DISCOVERING FAMILIES", and this year that means even more. Workshop students are choosing their favorite tree on St. John to use for their family trees while learning about financial literacy towards creating their own businesses based on their passions and interests. Learn more about this amazing summer curriculum designed specifically to improve literacy which you can include in your own summer programming!

Thank you, Friends of the Park, for providing transportation to the 4th Annual St. John Outdoor Love City Learning Summer Creative Arts & Literacy Workshop© 2024 and to the VINP for the amazing Park Rangers educational skills engaging with the summer workshop students who explored the historical spaces and places at Annaberg's Historical Site - no longer a plantation!

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
– Chief Seattle c. 1780~86 – 1866

The 4th Annual St. John Outdoor Love City Learning Summer Creative Arts & Literacy Workshop© 2024 opened full session on July 8, 2024, at the National Park Pavilion on the beautiful island of St.John in the Virgin Islands.
Donate today at www.neguseducation.com to support this reading initiative - one of the only reading initiatives on St. John to get children reading fluently, comprehending, and enjoying reading from the 1st grade!

Nature provides time for mistakes to be corrected (by both children and adults), for prejudices to be overcome, and for children to catch their breath and restore their image of themselves, peers, parents, teachers, and the world.
– Loris Malaguzzi, in The Hundred Languages of Children, 1998

"As a result of 1733, there were over 600 Free Families within the Danish Colonies" (Sewer, L., 2024).
As a descendant of these free families within the Danish Colonies, as an Indigenous free ancestral heritage, I am honored to share some more Black Mermaid© original artwork by an original free family, as a result of 1733!!!
You can purchase an original painting (acrylic on canvas, 11X17) for $1848, $1878, or $1733! You decide how you will donate to this cause to improve literacy skills among St. John youth!
You can also get prints of the original for $18.48, $18.78, or $17.33!

I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions – a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.
– bell hooks, American author and theorist, 1952-2021

Get an original Black Mermaid© art from St. Johnian emerging artist, former Miss St. John 1986, author, researcher, librarian, and assistant professor of child development as we celebrate July 3, 1848 - keeping Black History going all year long!

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Indigenous St. Johnian with over 300 years of ancestral heritage stolen or trying to be stolen by the colonial regime have created, The Black Mermaid©, a series of acrylic on canvas depicting the origin of this mythical creature found, some say, in the depths of the deepest oceans only coming to the surface for special occasions. Get your original Black Mermaid© painting now and get a piece of St. John's ancestral heritage by Dr. Carla M Sewer.

The 4th Annual St. John Outdoor Love City Learning Summer Creative Arts & Literacy Workshop© 2024 is pleased to announce our first day of full workshop sessions begins Monday, July 8, 2024! We began in June with Fridays at Cinnamon Bay hosted by the Friends of the Park's Learn to Swim Program where we were also treated to cultural-historical and environmental presentations about turtles by Kaitlin, drumming with Eddie Bruce, and crafts with Ital Anthony!
Happy Summer 2024! Make it one to remember!

My first birth will I no longer get to hold in my arms again. My life is not the same. I will not give myself to another again. Do not talk to me crazy. I am moving forward to tranquility and a koi fish pond with my horses and my dogs and my animals that love me without incident. - Dr. Carla Sewer

Vitamin D From the Sun Sprinkled with some Of my homemade Healing Oils

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933-2020, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Family Financial Literacy: Building a Business Plan is part of this year's 4th Annual St. John Outdoor Love City Learning Summer Creative Arts and Literacy Workshop© 2024!

Babies, like scientists, use statistics and experiments to learn about the world.
– Alison Gopnik, The Philosophical Baby

Another WAPA/VIYA Outage!
Research Participants, I am interviewing in person!

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Carla M. Sewer, PhD, CFLE, Librarian This Channel is where you will find my podcasts. "KNOWING THE YOUNG CHILD", "CARLA'S COMMUNICATION CORNER", "DR. SEWER'S STORYTIME" “STORYTIME WITH DR. SEWER" and other videos that will interest you. Enjoy my channel and please subscribe!!!

A beautiful day today at Cinnamon Bay with our Friends of the Park, Caitlin presenting on our turtle friends and as always we got a chance to engage with the Learn to Swim program at Cinnamon Bay where the workshop students got an opportunity to learn how to be a part of positive change in our community starting with our turtle friends.

The 4th Annual St. John Outdoor Love City Learning Summer Creative Arts & Literacy Workshop© 2024 presents, every Friday in June before the workshop begins July 8, 2024, we venture to Cinnamon Bay where we are engaged with a variety of activities, namely Learn to Swim. We are also happy to learn about our culture and environment. Today, we learned about turtles with Caitlin!

Give children the gift of time; time to investigate, to explore and to wonder; time to get lost in their work and to work until they are finished.
– Ellen Veselack et al, (2015)

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
– Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960, American anthropologist

Felt. Frame. Felt letters. Cardboard.
Creating items that will encourage a rich literacy experience is a necessary part of learning to read and I am blessed to be able to volunteer my time with Storytime with Dr. Sewer© at my Alma Mater, Julius E. Sprauve School, the school where I went through from K to 9th grade. When I graduated from JESS (9th grade) I graduated as the 1984 Virgin Islands Hal Jackson Talented Teen Winner representing the Virgin Islands in Jamacia for the International Competition!

Negus Education World Specialists is closed on June 19
for Juneteenth!
July 3rd Emancipation Day too!