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“Changing Education Paradigms:” A Thought Worth Considering
Ken Robinson’s talk on Changing Education Paradigms has an excellent point for restructuring our schools.
NBC: VLA Principal Discusses the Real Pressing Issues Facing Education
On May 1st, 2011, NBC-5 TV held an Education Nation Teacher Town Hall in Chicago.
Move Towards Social Action: Empowerment through Physical Education
Teaching Social Justice is an ongoing and
holistic effort, rather than a 50 minute time block in the academic day. We use Physical Education, such as Capoeira (a Afro-Brazilian Martial Art), as an opportunity to teach children resistance and social justice concepts.
Relearning School: An Educator’s Social Justice Journey
The Path. When I look back on my own elementary education, I realize my education was mostly marked with fear.
Wait, There is More to Occupy?
Everyone is talking about Occupying Wall Street: how the top 1% controls close to 40% of the wealth;how they dominate in decision making;
and how all of this interferes with democracy (let alone human rights).
Big Stories from Little People
During a high school religion class, I remember reading this book, Ultimate Questions by Clyde F. Crews, and being struck by his words, “One of the oldest and deepest of human passions is the need to tell stories, and to hear them.”
Lessons From the Congo
The opportunity to travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a group of students this past summer was nothing short of amazing.
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.
