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Speak to Another Man’s Heart
A foreign language class is like no other class it creates and instills an openness for things that are foreign to oneself…
VLA World Scholars Engage with Dominican Republic Race Relations Expert, Dr. Nataka Moore
Recently, the World Scholars Program was honored to welcome Dr. Nataka Moore as a guest speaker. Dr. Moore is an Associate Professor in the Doctor of Clinical Psychology Program at Adler School of Professional Psychology.
Treasures Found in Unexpected Places
The photograph above is from our World Scholars Program (WSP) trip in June to the Dominican Republic.
A Teacher’s Duty: Activism as Education
On Tuesday, November 25th, teachers at Village Leadership Academy decided it would make sense to take some of our young leaders to Chicago’s City Hall to a protest initiated by the Black Youth Project 100.
Examining the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: My First Experience Teaching Social Justice
I knew I wanted to begin having conversations with my students that allowed them to see intersections between social justice and science, but I wasn’t sure how to begin.
The Freedom to Teach
Before coming to VLA, there had always been a binder full of steps of what I needed to teach and when I needed to teach it by.
Social Justice in Primary School
Social Justice means many things to many people. Although it is traditionally taught in university settings, a few elementary schools, including Village Leadership Academy, have taken the bold step to teach it to primary students, including those in kindergarten!
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.
