Blueberry Lemonade Project for Teachers (BLPT)

The Blueberry Lemonade Project for Teachers (BLPT) is an interactive introspective experience designed to reaffirm, reconnect and celebrate teachers’ commitment to the profession. Designed by a practicing teacher in collaboration with an administrator and a professor, BLPT enables teachers to reflect and assess themselves individually and collectively to better serve students and their families. BLPT helps teachers to squeeze success out of their learners’ circumstances by adopting personal and professional routines; improving communications between them and their students; building upon the strength of students’ heritage; establishing classroom environments conducive to positive interaction; and increasing student performance in school. The primary goal of the BLPT is to empower teachers and champion children in ways that create and maintain sensational classrooms. This work is particularly focused on cultural competence.