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- They Drive the Change
- Lessons From the Congo
- Big Stories from Little People
- Wait, There is More to Occupy?
- Relearning School: An Educator’s Social Justice Journey
- Move Towards Social Action: Empowerment through Physical Education
- NBC: VLA Principal Discusses the Real Pressing Issues Facing Education
- “Changing Education Paradigms:” A Thought Worth Considering
- Inescapably White
- Another Perspective
- ABCs, 123s, and Social Justice
- A Growing Classroom
- A Teacher Makes All Things Possible
- Never Too Young to Make an Impact
- Create Opportunities for Creativity
- A Challenge for Teachers Who Are Stuck in the Business of Education
- Urban Education At Its Best (A Video on VLA)
- Alexander the “Who?”
- Parental Involvement in Transforming Education
- Listen to What Children Have to Say About Peace…
- An Impressive Field Trip: 4th graders Touring the Tour Guide at the Art Institute of Chicago
- First Grade Service Learning Project: Developing our Understanding
- Kids Driven to Change: The Importance of Pairing Academics with Service Learning
- Some Schools Need to Change
- We Don’t Just Have Jobs, We Have Commitments
- Valuable Lessons About Cultural Diversity
- Puzzle Me a New
- Empower the Children
- Standardized Thinking in an Innovative World?
- Simple Practice, Simple Justice
- Project Darfur (A Children’s Movement)
- Teaching for Social Justice: the Challenge of Selecting Teachers
- What Social Studies Teachers Should Do and Think (but often don’t)
- First Grade Learns What?!
- Changing with Collaboration
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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Some Schools Need to Change
By: Nakisha Hobbs (Principal) Retaining Chicago Public School students is a failing system. I realized this nearly ten years ago when we were tutoring children who had repeated third grade two times. This article about the Chicago School System failing … Continue reading
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We Don’t Just Have Jobs, We Have Commitments
By: Anita Andrews-Hutchinson (Financial Director) There is true magic that happens in Village Leadership Academy (VLA). Popping into any one of the classrooms throughout the course of the day, you can feel the magic permeating through your very being. Every … Continue reading
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Valuable Lessons About Cultural Diversity
By: Darcel Washington (Administrative Assistant) As an advocate for true quality education, I feel comforted to know that Village Leadership Academy students are not only learning about cultural differences, but also about bridging them to see the core of humanity. It … Continue reading
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Puzzle Me a New
By: Miesha Ebacher (first grade teacher) I feel very blessed and honored to be a part of this movement at VLA…we can call it that right? The conversations we have as a staff (although heated with passion, fueled with confusion … Continue reading
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Empower the Children
Our new Student Voices section of our blog just opened today with a first grader. I encourage you to take a look and check back regularly to see what the future leaders of this world have been learning and thinking.
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