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The Courage to Measure Love Open Letter, October 18, 2023 The vision of measuring love began with a school visit in the fall of 2022. Director Rictor Craig has an open-door policy for aligned visitors to witness the teaching and learning experience they’ve designed in the building. When I visited, I was struck by how the adults and children nurtured each other. This wasn’t my first school visit, of course. I was raised by two teachers so I was always that kid. For as long as I can remember, I had an interest in critiquing learning, especially as a student. Informed with this upbringing and my time visiting schools across the country through fellowships, I have the usual education reform themes to pull from. These themes are usually excellence, structure, joy, routine, expertise, rhythm, and play. Students on group projects, immersive learning, laughter, art-centered, music-infused, independent study, and clear and supportive redirection were all there. All those things were also, mostly true in other schools I’ve seen. Statesmen is different. At Statesmen College Preparatory Academy for Boys, the one word that came to me was love. This feeling engaged my imagination [to measure] this feeling and the series of practices that flow through the building. I felt the interconnected ethos of both adults and children as I walked through the halls. It became clear, this is both a healing and an excellence school [at the same time]. While all the feelings of youth are safely displayed as they rise and flourish, including tears and conflict resolution too. All this while this school was born in a country reckoning with the racial awakening of George Floyd’s murder, a COVID pandemic that lingers, and an education reform movement originally designed to address the same achievement gap issues that have persisted for an additional 50 years. Many unanswered questions persist. How can we continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on our education system with such little progress for humanity?  At Statesmen College Preparatory Academy for Boys, we’re grounded in asking what does it mean to love our Black boys? In the words of co-founder of Statesmen, Shawn Hardnett, where has this love gone? And humbly, why isn’t school and love talked about in the same sentence every day? The courage we offer with this study is to do just that. Talk about it, learn about it, provoke it, and capture this story of love. Our goal for you is to engage with this report and address some of these questions while we measure love. With your active engagement and echoing this story, we can go much further in building a bridge of love across schools so that this work becomes the norm. Lastly, this study can go deeper and even more impactful with your support. Christopher C. King CEO, WAM Academy

How is it that Collegiate Recovery Programs and Communities are thriving at HBCUs with Black & Brown students in recovery and Black and Brown allies but our PWI communities are still homogeneously white males with only few exceptions? While I know the answer to the question, I don’t yet have a solution.

The new EEF Guide- A School's Guide to Implementation provides school leaders with the confidence and evidence to introduce change. https://buff.ly/44tqQ9x Nicola Arkinstall, Education Endowment Foundation (EEF). #SLT, #SchoolLeadership, #Education

🏛️Do the classics have a place in modern education? I am a firm believer that they do. However not how you might think. 🏺Recent news from a great school in my hometown of London, Newham Collegiate Sixth Form Centre (The NCS), that they are offering classes in the classics to enhance the classroom. 🧐This is a great opportunity to see the foundations of our modern world. I would argue that on those foundations there is also far more to explore. 📚Renaissance humanism was built on classical thought and on humanism was built the Age of Enlightenment and eventually our own modernity. 🎭Engaging with thinkers, writers, arts, across the ages creates a foundation for modern learning in the Information Age. 🏆Engagement with it all is vital to see the world clearly and I know that this foundation being built by Newham will pay off massively for the students undertaking their journey into classical thought. #educationalleadership #classics #teaching

From University of Richmond to King's College: My Graduate School Journey Discover my experience transitioning from University of Richmond to King's College in London for graduate school. Learn about my concentration, honors, graduation year, and high school. Enhance your profile with these tips and create a fuller-looking profile. #UniversityOfRichmond #KingsCollege #GraduateSchoolJourney #ProfileEnhancement #HigherEducation #CollegeExperience #AcademicAchievements #EducationGoals #StudyAbroad #EducationSuccess

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Embrace the power of education on International Day of Education, 24th January.🎓✨ Follow the wise words of Malcolm X and prepare today for tomorrow's triumphs. #educationday #knowledgeispower #educatetoempower #educationforall #BCIS #BosphorusConnect

Do you offer a product or service that perhaps a #teacher would benefit from or enjoy? Ever think of providing them a #discount as a way of showing #appreciation and still earning their business? Check out Million Dollar Teacher Project’s T.A.P. Program to see if it’s a fit for your business. Lloyd Hopkins at it again. #payitforward #giveback #showappreciation #notallheroeswearcapes

As an HBCU Alum in corporate america. What would be your advice be to the graduating class of 2024?