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Teach Like Ced(TM) Cultural Sentence Strips Literacy Framework is a research-aligned, classroom-tested guide designed to transform how educators teach literacy through structure, voice, and cultural intelligence. Created by internationally recognized educator and curriculum designer Cedric A. Washington, this framework addresses one of the most persistent challenges in education: students who can decode text but struggle to think clearly, write effectively, and articulate ideas with confidence. Rather than relying on worksheets, test prep, or surface-level strategies, Teach Like Ced(TM) provides educators with a clear, repeatable instructional system that builds literacy mastery intentionally-one sentence at a time. At the core of the framework is a powerful progression-Sentence → Paragraph → Essay-paired with a predictable Monday-Friday instructional flow that reduces cognitive overload, increases student confidence, and ensures consistent growth across classrooms. By treating writing as the engine of literacy, the framework strengthens reading comprehension, oral language, and critical thinking simultaneously. Teach Like Ced(TM) uniquely integrates culture as pedagogy, honoring students' language patterns, oral traditions, and lived experiences as instructional assets-without controversy or lowered expectations. Students are explicitly taught how to translate their thinking into academic language, developing clarity, ownership, and intellectual agency. The book also introduces the SELF(TM) (Social Empowerment Learning Framework), which moves beyond traditional SEL by embedding identity, self-governance, aspiration, and communication skills directly into daily literacy instruction. Assessment, differentiation, and intervention are approached with rigor and humanity-supporting access to grade-level standards without reducing intellectual demand. Designed for classroom teachers, literacy coaches, school leaders, tutors, and teacher preparation programs, Teach Like Ced(TM) Cultural Sentence Strips Literacy Framework serves as both a professional handbook and an implementation blueprint. With clear explanations, practical models, research alignment, standards crosswalks, and sample lesson walkthroughs, this text equips educators to teach literacy with precision, integrity, and lasting impact. This is not a trend. It is a framework built for sustainability, equity, and legacy.

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Cedric A. Washington is an internationally recognized educator, speaker, and author whose work challenges traditional narratives in education and youth development. As the visionary behind The Miseducation of the Negro in the 21st Century and creator of the Knowledge of S.E.L.F. (Social Empowerment Learning Framework) Curriculum, Washington has become a leading voice in redefining how young people-particularly Black youth-understand identity, purpose, and academic excellence.Born and raised in Gary, Indiana, Washington brings authenticity and passion to every aspect of his work. He has spent more than a decade designing culturally relevant instructional systems that blend social-emotional learning, critical consciousness, and real-world literacy. His book The Miseducation of the Negro in the 21st Century builds upon Carter G. Woodson's foundational text, reframing it through a contemporary lens that speaks directly to today's learners, educators, and parents.Washington is the founder and executive director of NERD Youth Services, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to educational mentoring and community empowerment. Under NERD's umbrella, he launched Project UPLIFT, a mentoring initiative focused on college and career readiness, mental health, and leadership development for underserved youth. His dynamic speaking engagements-spanning conferences from Chicago to Amsterdam-connect global educators and change-makers around the themes of focus, self-awareness, and cultural intelligence.As the founder of Who Lives Like This?! Publishing, Washington now empowers emerging authors to own their narratives and publish works that inspire, educate, and uplift. His mission is rooted in a belief that education must be liberatory-centered on knowledge of self and service to others.Through his books, curriculum, and public speaking, Cedric A. Washington continues to blaze a trail of purpose, equipping a new generation of learners, teachers, and leaders to transform classrooms, communities, and culture.

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