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World Scholars Wednesday’s: Dominican Republic
For a third grader, Jevon has a surprising sense of what he wants to accomplish and how he plans to do so.
We Can’t Wait to Show You How We Make the World a Healthier Place
For our Grassroots Campaign, our second grade class has chosen healthy eating and making healthy food choices.
World Scholars Wednesday’s: Meet Eden
Eden is aware that as a student who speaks Spanish, she will have a unique experience on the trip to the Dominican Republic (DR).
Creating Human(itarian) Beings: The Importance of the World Scholars Program
While being interviewed for our annual World Scholars Program ‘recap’ video, I was asked a few very interesting questions that brought me back to South Africa and reminded me how much I as an adult learned by traveling abroad to the Motherland.
Speak to Another Man’s Heart
A foreign language class is like no other class it creates and instills an openness for things that are foreign to oneself…
VLA World Scholars Engage with Dominican Republic Race Relations Expert, Dr. Nataka Moore
Recently, the World Scholars Program was honored to welcome Dr. Nataka Moore as a guest speaker. Dr. Moore is an Associate Professor in the Doctor of Clinical Psychology Program at Adler School of Professional Psychology.
Treasures Found in Unexpected Places
The photograph above is from our World Scholars Program (WSP) trip in June to the Dominican Republic.
CHANGE THE NAME
Student activists and educators from Village Leadership Academy campaign to change the name of a park from a slaveholder to abolitionists Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood.
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