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Who’s most likely to live in a food desert?
Through the GRC process, I am learning that it is impossible to take students through a process to activate and transform their thinking and not be transformed in the process.
Second Grade Students Adapting and Leading!
It always amazes me how small children can be so adaptable. After our first GRC presentation, our class decided to change the topic for our Grassroots Campaign.
Haven’t Felt This Way Since 2007: A Teacher’s Reflection
Four months ago I had no idea what I was getting myself into!
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.
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.