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First Grade Learns What?!
Here is a sample lesson of integrating Reading and Social Studies in our Africa Unit.
What Social Studies Teachers Should Do and Think (but often don’t)
I was reading AEI’s latest research: “Highschool Civics: What Social Studies Teachers Do and Think” and felt a great disappointment in the misuse of (and even lack of) a comprehensive, critical, and rigorous social studies curriculum in our schools today.
Teaching for Social Justice: the Challenge of Selecting Teachers
Most administrators would agree that teacher quality and effectiveness are the best predictors of student achievement.
Project Darfur (A Children’s Movement)
It is easy to convince yourself that you are powerless to the problems of this world.
Simple Practice, Simple Justice
When I tell others that my school is pioneering the creation of a “Social Justice curriculum for elementary students,” I’m usually met with confused stares.
Standardized Thinking in an Innovative World?
When we were in school, we were graded on correct answers versus incorrect answers.
Puzzle Me a New
I feel very blessed and honored to be a part of this movement at VLA…we can call it that right?
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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