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Kids Driven to Change: The Importance of Pairing Academics with Service Learning
Before kids can internalize education as important, they need to feel they are important. They need to know they are valued in every way and the world needs them to make things better.
First Grade Service Learning Project: Developing our Understanding
For Project Darfur, we review the Sudanese timeline, and I ask them questions to try and see who has retained some of the information we have discussed in the last month and who has lost the facts in the fun.
An Impressive Field Trip: 4th graders Touring the Tour Guide at the Art Institute of Chicago
To wrap up our Asia Unit and our emphasis on social justice in the religious domain (aka respect towards all religions), the second, third, and fourth graders took a field trip to an Asian Art Exhibit at the famous Art Institute of Chicago yesterday.
Listen to What Children Have to Say About Peace…
The first grade class will be teaching high school students next week. Youth Connections Leadership Academy High School has invited our students to host a teach-in about the genocide that is currently happening in Darfur.
Parental Involvement in Transforming Education
Alexander the “Who?”
So far, students have studied history, culture, current issues, and perspectives from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
A Challenge for Teachers Who Are Stuck in the Business of Education
Let’s say for a moment, you are an elementary school teacher for inner city kids (and maybe you are), and you received the opportunity to preview the actual future of your students.
