{"id":1817,"date":"2026-02-27T19:25:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:48:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:48:54","slug":"black-history-month-reading-at-kent-island-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/?p=1817","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month Reading at Kent Island Elementary School &#8211; February 27, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the third consecutive year I had the honor of reading <em>Playground Heroes<\/em> to the kindergarten students at Kent Island Elementary School. A big thank you to Kathy Barletta, Principal, and Kia Reed, Guidance Counselor, for including me in this annual celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;It was a pleasure to welcome Dr. Franks-Randall to Kent Island Elementary School during African American History Month. Her book Playground Heroes is always a favorite and it was especially meaningful for the students to hear the story read by the author herself. The students were engaged and shared thoughtful reflections and questions after the reading. We anticipate Dr. Franks-Randall&#8217;s visit each year.&#8221; <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathy Barletta, Principal, Kent Island Elementary School<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third consecutive year I had the honor of reading Playground Heroes to the kindergarten students at Kent Island Elementary School. A big thank you to Kathy Barletta, Principal, and Kia Reed, Guidance Counselor, for including me in this annual celebration. &#8220;It was a pleasure to welcome Dr. Franks-Randall to Kent Island Elementary School [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,12],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-authorvisit","tag-readaloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}