To celebrate Black History month in February, all Elwood School District students, faculty and staff adopted the motto: “Embrace, Educate, Unite.”

Since 2017, John H. Glenn High School’s “Unity with Diversity” club has sponsored a Black History Month showcase, bringing together students from all of the district’s schools to celebrate diversity, acceptance and inclusion. Determined to continue to share this positive message, despite COVID-19, students and staff collaborated to create an array of equity-related activities for students to participate in.

Throughout February, students were encouraged to visit their school library to check out displays of children’s books, novels and biographies by Black authors and illustrators.

On Feb. 12, John Glenn students and members of the Unity with Diversity club connected virtually with students at Harley Avenue Primary and James H. Boyd Intermediate Schools to read books, such as “The ABC’s of Black History” by Rio Cortez and “Human Computer: Mary Jackson, Engineer” by Andi Diehn.

In addition, posters, listing facts about trailblazing African American men and women, were hung in the hallways of each school.

For more information on John Glenn’s Unity with Diversity club, please visit: https://sites.google.com/elwood.k12.ny.us/unitywithdiversity/home