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- Relearning School: An Educator’s Social Justice Journey
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- 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: March 2011
A Teacher Makes All Things Possible
By: Maria Wahlstrom (Instructional Coordinator) Who taught reading to professors? Who taught science to doctors? Who taught writing to authors? Who taught social studies to lawyers? Who taught math to engineers? Who teaches the next generation? Who taught you? Teachers! There is no doubt … Continue reading
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Never Too Young to Make an Impact
Maria Wahlstrom (Instructional Coordinator) and Miesha Ebacaher (First Grade Teacher) Project Darfur, led by Miesha Ebacher and her first grade class, has led me to question popular assumptions about youth: Are “growing up” and “gaining experience” the only prerequisites for … Continue reading
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Create Opportunities for Creativity
By: Wisdom Baty (Art Teacher) 3rd and 4th graders had a wonderful trip to the Contemporary Art Museum, where they explored the ways art, people and environment interact with one another. Afterwards, students created hands-on projects in response to the exhibition. … Continue reading
A Challenge for Teachers Who Are Stuck in the Business of Education
By: Maria Wahlstrom (Instructional Coordinator) Let’s say for a moment, you are an elementary school teacher for inner city kids (and maybe you are), and you received the opportunity to preview the actual future of your students. As you watch … Continue reading
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