HBV Tutoring & Literacy Support Programs is intended to address barriers in the classroom and at school among Black and students of colour. We acknowledge and support that diversity, equity, and justice are more important now than ever—and that our learning can never start too early. But how do you approach an anti-racist education? Our literacy program is centered on the believes that one way is through age-appropriate Black literature and storytelling. Students interact with books and create meaning in a way that educate, inform and affirm student identity. By creating learning spaces that center the voices and stories of the global majority, we are implicitly teaching the values of equity, inclusion and diversity and demonstrating their importance in both name and practices. Through purposefully curated books that centre and amplify Black students and the multiculturalism that makes up Canadian identity students are better equipped to understand the critical importance of creating and sustaining an atmosphere of kindness, compassion and empathy all inherent pieces that will work to foster anti-racist education. Academic tutoring support is now available for all students in grade K-12 that attend Halton District School Board. This FREE program is only offered to HDSB students and families.