2021 – 2022 guests
We spotlight schools, non-profits and youth-serving programs that exemplify our monthly themes. Our 2021-22 guests include a unique library initiative in Chicago, a non-profit in Denver that promotes hope and joy for LGBTQIA2+ youth, and an independent boys school in Berkeley that interrogates gender equity.
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Avalon is a small, tuition-free public charter school for students in grades 6-12 located in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
It has pioneered two separate, powerful models of education: a Project Based Learning curriculum and a Teacher-Powered governance model. Teachers collectively make all decisions regarding curriculum, budget, professional development, and personnel.
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Design39 is a K-8 school in San Diego, CA. It is designed with the individual learner in mind and built to foster collaboration, creative confidence, and inquiry, so that students develop the courage and growth mindset necessary to change the world.
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Eagle Rock School is a year-round, residential, full scholarship high school for young people ages 15-17. New students start their experience with a twenty-five day wilderness trip.
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Heartwood Agile Learning Center is a K-12 independent school in Georgia. They aim to artfully enable students to pursue their curiosities and become leaders of their own learning.
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The School for Examining Essential Questions of Sustainability serves 6-8 graders in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. The school is designed to ensure SEEQers will be stewards of planet Earth and healthy, effective citizens of the world.
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A NYC-based nonprofit that raises respect for a noble profession by honoring and supporting exceptional teachers. The Academy offers master classes for teachers featuring extraordinary people in diverse fields, like Henry Louis Gates Jr., Gloria Steinem and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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Jones Valley Teaching Farm in downtown Birmingham serves as a hub for academic exploration, personal growth, and pathways to leadership and employment through food, farming, and the culinary arts
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LitShop is an organization in St. Louis that provides after-school and summer programming that pairs engaging literacy opportunities with building and making. By intentionally creating a supportive space where girls* can take risks, explore creatively, build skills, and connect with other girls, LitShop fosters leadership and confidence our girls can use through adolescence and early adulthood.
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https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100040602765420
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Steve & Kate’s believes in trusting kids with the freedom to make their own choices. Driven by their natural curiosity, children experiment with their own decision-making and develop the confidence to try, fail, and learn on their own.
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An Oakland-based nonprofit consulting group taking an organizational wellness approach to interrupt chronic teacher turnover in districts and charters across the nation. In partnership, The Teaching Well works to “heal adult culture by providing tools for healthy dialogue, emotional regulation and mindful stress resilience.”
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YOUmedia operates as a drop-in, out-of-school learning environment for Chicago teens to develop skills in digital media, STEM, and making. They encourage participants to create rather than consume and to learn based on self-interest.
https://www.chipublib.org/programs-and-partnerships/youmedia/
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Antonio Jackson earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Moorehouse College. He’ll be joining us to talk about his experience as a Moorehouse man, and about what educators can learn from the HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) model.
He is set to graduate medical school in May of 2022 and will be practicing as an Emergency Medicine physician.
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