SETCLAE, First Grade Self-Esteem Through Culture Leads to Academic Excellence

This series of workbooks, one each for grades K-8 and for one for high school level, are constructed to tackle self-esteem issues that many African American youths face in today's media-driven culture. Designed to help combat the internal and external forces affecting African American youths, these workbooks, divided into 32 lessons, cover such topics as goal setting, family trees, African history, culture, Ebonics, rap, values, manhood, womanhood, and academic development.

Jawanza Kunjufu is the author of State of Emergency, Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, and Satan, I’m Taking Back My Health. He lives in Chicago. Folami Prescott is an education consultant. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.