{"id":2578,"date":"2023-01-13T14:56:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2023-01-13T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:56:13","slug":"black-excellence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/2023\/01\/13\/black-excellence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Excellence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi families,<\/p>\n<p>We will be observing Black Excellence Day on Monday, January 16th. Your child is encouraged to wear a black shirt on this day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Black Excellence Day?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a lead up to Black History Month, Black Excellence Day is a day to rejoice Black history and learn about Black stories, Black art and Black people, and a day to stand in solidarity with Black Canadians.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Black Excellence Day was created by Ninandotoo Society.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">January 15th is in honour of the great civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who was born on January 15, 1929.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">The contributions of Black Canadians and the ongoing civil rights struggle of Black Canadians often go unacknowledged in our history books and school curriculum.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">The term Black Excellence was born out of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the Kindergarten level, we will be reading stories written by black authors and having class discussions.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please let me know.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Kovac<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi families, We will be observing Black Excellence Day on Monday, January 16th. Your child is encouraged to wear a black shirt on this day. What is Black Excellence Day? As a lead up to Black History Month, Black Excellence Day is a day to rejoice Black history and learn about Black stories, Black art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/kovacg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}