Welcome to the last episode of 2021 or the winter episode.  This episode spotlights a former educator who is now in an exciting career outside of education. If you remember last year, we had Claudia Salinas, former ELL educator, now a senior executive with Curriculum Associates.  This year, we meet Crescent Imani Novell, former performing arts educator, now television writer and playwright. Crescent is a long time little sister, colleague, former employee, and mentee of Dr. Hollie. Her journey is truly unique and incredible! She is going to take us from Seattle to Hollywood, where she is making waves. All the while, Crescent has maintained her cultural and linguistic responsiveness (CLR) as she validates and affirms Black culture in deep ways throughout her art and her work. She is a true embodiment that CLR is fo' life because it is who you are, not what you do. See a sample of Crescent's work at the Culture Language Academy of Success. As usual, Dr. Hollie will offer his two cents, a year end reflection on 2021.

Learn more about CLR and Dr. Hollie at www.culturallyresponsive.org and Twitter @validateaffirm