Gwendolyn developed the AfrIcan and African American History Studies curriculum for the former Wakisha Charter School and taught the course by immersing the students into the history of Africans and African Americans in a classroom decorated to represent an African Village.

Through G. S. E. Enterprise, Inc., Gwendolyn has presented workshops; plays and interactive immersive experiences of African and African American History for schools; churches; Conferences; Colleges and Universities, and for the opening of the Visitors Center, the opening of The Constitution Center; the moving of the Liberty Bell; Welcome America and the July 4th Parade in Philadelphia, PA. Gwendolyn has produced, directed and  hosted a radio show called “Let’s Talk It Over” and produced, directed, wrote and starred in a TV program for WYBE-TV called “Journey to Nubian World” – a show where she and three students went back in time to interact with historical Africans and African Americans.

Gwendolyn continues to infuse African and African American historical facts into her clinical counseling in schools with students who exhibit very difficult behavioral problems and the students have experienced excellent results of improved behavior.

Gwendolyn is a wife; a mother of four grown children, grandmother of five and a descendant of an amazing people and a glorious heritage.

He has a professional background in Education Administration, Counseling, and African-American Psychology. He firmly holds the belief that most children need coaching on how to build and maintain healthy relationships, resolve conflicts, accept personal responsibility, and process emotions in a healthy manner. Fittingly, his teaching philosophy is trauma-informed, culturally competent, and student-centered.

Convinced of the importance of family and community in a child’s education, Davis has been instrumental in forming family-school-community relationships ever since she began her teaching career in 1986. She has served in various capacities in the public education arena including formerly serving as an Elementary Educator, Title I Reading Instructor, Parent Involvement Coordinator, Instructional Resource Teacher for Cultural Relevance, Assistant Director of Equity and Family Involvement and the nation’s first Director of African American Student Achievement with the Madison Metropolitan School District in Madison, Wisconsin. She was also formerly co-director, for twelve years, along with her husband Arlington, of the African American Ethnic Academy, an academic and cultural enrichment program that convened on Saturday mornings. As a product of the research, she did while serving as co-director at the African American Ethnic Academy she was propelled by her own three sons and countless other Black children across the country and devoted her life’s work to researching and utilizing best practices and models around Culturally Responsive Practices that speak to the unique identities and world views of these children.

Reflecting on her own educational experiences as a child and those she has had as a classroom teacher and mother, she has held deep in her heart the people, purposes, and passions that shaped and have had a profound effect on the educational leader she is today. Many of these experiences remain in her institutional memory and call her to create and share this work through creating the Black History Education Conference, publishing books, writing/creating a curriculum, and engaging in speaking opportunities across the nation. Included in her repertoire of tools and resources that she has created is a professional development model called Cultural Practices that are Relevant (CPR) that supports and strengthens Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching. Most recently she has published her first culturally responsive children’s book called, “Dreaming In Ethnic Melodies” which shares the hopes and dreams she continues to hold for her own three sons. She currently serves as Wisconsin’s Culturally Responsive Practices Coordinator at the Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center. In that role, she leads this work along with a team of colleagues, training practitioners across the state of Wisconsin and nationally from a model she co-created called the Model to Inform Culturally Responsive Practices that focuses on what it means to be culturally responsive starting with self and moving that work across an entire equitable multi-level system of support.

As a result of this work, Andreal has received various awards. She was the recipient of the NBC 15 News Crystal Apple Award in 2000, UW-Madison Lois Gadd Nemec Distinguished Elementary Education Alumni Award in 2004, Order of the Eastern Star Mother Full of Grace in 2004, the Milken National Educator Award in 2004, and the YWCA woman of Distinction Award in 2013.

Additionally, she is a professor of advanced elementary teaching methods and an adult literacy tutor. She has a passion for reading and culturally relevant education. She also loves singing and caring for her plants and pet tortoise. She is a proud graduate of the prestigious historically Black university, Jackson State University, where she earned her Bachelor of Art in Elementary Education. She also earned her Master of Education in Instructional Leadership from Union University.

I am from Baltimore – born and raised. During the quarantine, I stay close to family. I am family-oriented. For fun, I like to listen to music and dance. In five years, I see myself still teaching as well as continuing my YouTube channel about my teaching experiences and practices.

I strongly believe in Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence and my book, Igniting & Inspiring Life-Long Learners discusses this theory and how it needs to be more prevalent in our education system. My purpose has led me to become an author, a speaker, an entrepreneur, and learning how to dream and accomplish more than I could imagine. This is what I believe, creativity and guidance do for all of us and that is my goal to share that with all that will listen. I currently live in TN, but look forward to being able to travel and teach anywhere that I am called.

She is passionate about researching ancient and contemporary diasporic and First Nation histories worldwide, to unravel untruths and gain a sense of how this beautiful Earth became such a corrupted world. She is a holistic healer, an artist, an herbalist, a gardener, and loves to dance to good music! Above all, she is a Mother, and in between the many life lessons, she loves to laugh it up with her almost 13-year-old son, whom she successfully co-parents with his father.

Tameko is a natural-born leader and communicator with a passion for children and the arts. Before working at Sankofa, Tameko dedicated herself to several different professions and motherhood.

Tameko was a dedicated singer, actress, and independent film producer. She then went on to be the owner in charge of operations at a French Bakery as well as a personal trainer before giving birth to her now eight-year-old daughter.

She attended Adelphi and Hofstra University.