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ITAV Recognized for COVID-19 Prevention
Read the full story here: https://gazettechicago.com/2021/09/staff-testing-for-covid-19-can-keep-schools-safe/
Zahir Mbengue Featured in #Turnthepageproject
A True Social Justice Education
When I think of teaching our children social justice, I mean that we need to teach them how to identify, strive for, and practice justice in spite of injustice.
A Dangerous Education of Human Ignorance
About two weeks ago, while walking home with a friend, i saw it: the education of ignorance looked as dangerous as any threat to humanity.
Commands Cannot Correct
I live my life by one simple law. I have one single belief. I allow all other parts of my identity rest in ideas that are more or less maluable.
Changing with Collaboration
Gathered around small desks in the French room, I watched our diverse, young, intelligent, and passionate staff members open their laptops and take out pens and papers for our weekly staff meeting.
First Grade Learns What?!
Here is a sample lesson of integrating Reading and Social Studies in our Africa Unit.
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.
