Selected Courses
This BLACK DANDELION: CONVERGENT VOICE™ (BDCV) Course Catalog, “The Art of the Unimagined Ecosystems” offers 9 flexible courses to accommodate many levels of learners, ranging from 4th grade to graduate studies. BDCV also offers professional development courses: An Overview of the PSL/Poetry as a Second Language: Semajian Method™ pedagogy, and a classroom management course, The Communal Classroom. In the metaphoric, magical world of the "Black Dandelion," people and plants align. Have fun exploring the limitless growth of the BLACK DANDELION.
Cover Art by Amanda Thomason
A combination of worlds unseen: space and the cell of a dandelion, both, at one time, were unimagined ecosystems
Skill Reinforcement: literacy enhancement, reading comprehension, and interpretation; critical thinking skills (geosocial spectrum analysis), writing, cultural competency, social emotional learning applications
Skill Reinforcement: literacy, reading and comprehension, writing, vocabulary enhancement, critical thinking, public speaking and presentation, analogy development (compare and contrast), language and symbolism analytics
A BLACK DANDELION: CONVERGENT VOICE™ Game
Skill Reinforcement: vocabulary enhancement, lexicon development, spelling, writing and reading support
(In partnership with The Flint Institute of Arts Department of Education) Matthew Osmon, Director of Education
Skill Reinforcement: literacy enhancement, reading/comprehension, critical thinking, writing, art making, imagination expansion, public speaking/presentation
(In collaboration with Mott-Warsh Gallery)
Skill Reinforcement: writing, critical thinking, analytical processes
(In partnership with The Flint Institute of Arts Department of Education) Matthew Osmon, Director of Education
Skill Reinforcement: literacy, reading/comprehension, critical thinking, writing, public delivery, artistic expression, model scapeing, synthesizing exercises, Imaginative Realism
(In partnership with The Flint Institute of Arts Department of Education) Matthew Osmon, Director of Education
Skill Reinforcement: reading/comprehension interpretation, collaborative learning/writing, critical thinking, art creation, introspection, Social Emotional Learning, Ecology of Bees/animal science, life mapping
Skill Reinforcement: interdisciplinary/integrative learning and lesson planning, reading comprehension, test taking skills, writing
Skill Reinforcement: classroom management, interclass room communication and flow, parent guardian communication, collaborative learning and socialization, classroom management, contextual content focus