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Valuable Lessons About Cultural Diversity
As an advocate for true quality education, I feel comforted to know that Village Leadership Academy students are not only learning about cultural differences, but also about bridging them to see the core of humanity.
We Don’t Just Have Jobs, We Have Commitments
There is true magic that happens in Village Leadership Academy (VLA). Popping into any one of the classrooms throughout the course of the day, you can feel the magic permeating through your very being.
Some Schools Need to Change
Retaining Chicago Public School students is a failing system. I realized this nearly ten years ago when we were tutoring children who had repeated third grade two times.
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.
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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