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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.
Create Opportunities for Creativity
3rd and 4th graders had a wonderful trip to the Contemporary Art Museum, where they explored the ways art, people and environment interact with one another.
Never Too Young to Make an Impact
Project Darfur, led by Miesha Ebacher and her first grade class, has led me to question popular assumptions about youth: Are “growing up” and “gaining experience” the only prerequisites for becoming important individuals who inspire others?
A Teacher Makes All Things Possible
Who taught reading to professors? Who taught science to doctors? Who taught writing to authors?
A Growing Classroom
A garden is a growing classroom. It is also a path to sustainability and self-reliance. In many neighborhoods around Chicago, residents do not have access to healthy food.
ABCs, 123s, and Social Justice
When I first heard that I was going to teach “social justice” to my Kindergarten class of 5 year olds back in August, I wondered “Really?
Inescapably White
Yesterday I was reading about the universe in Bill Bryson’s book “a short history of nearly everything”.
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.
