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🔍 Addressing the Critical Need for High-Quality Education for Underserved Children 🔍 As educators, we often find ourselves at a crossroads, channeling our frustrations and teaching superpowers into conforming to a broken system or creating educational ventures that prioritize inclusive, high-quality education for underserved learners. At Victory Creative Learning, we recognize this need and are committed to making a difference. When I founded Victory Creative Learning, my goal was deeply personal. As a single parent and teacher, I wanted to provide my children with academic enrichment that not only met but exceeded the standards necessary for future success. I realized that this vision needed to extend beyond my own family to the many underserved children who face significant educational inequities. STEM education stands as the vehicle for closing these equity and education gaps. By fostering critical thinking, problem-solving, and innovation, STEM prepares our children to navigate and excel in an increasingly complex world. We believe every child, regardless of background, deserves access to high-quality, culturally relevant education. This conviction drives our mission to provide inclusive, transformative learning experiences that empower students to achieve their full potential. Together, we can ensure that every child has the opportunity to succeed. Let's continue to advocate for and create pathways that lead to brighter futures for all our students. Your insights and feedback are always welcome. Let's connect and continue this important conversation on how we can collectively work towards closing the education gap for underserved children. #EducationEquity #STEMEducation #InclusiveLearning #VictoryCreativeLearning #EducationalLeadership #EmpowermentThroughEducation #FutureReady

Cultivating a Thriving Educational Ecosystem: The Power of Afrocentric Education Imagine a vibrant ecosystem teeming with diverse resources, expertise, and theoretical frameworks. This interconnectedness fosters growth and resilience – a perfect metaphor for Afrocentric education initiatives. Empowering Educators & Students: Educators crave practical tools. Our guide, "Empowering Our Students: A Practical Guide to Afrocentric Integration," equips them with actionable steps to incorporate Afrocentric resources, pedagogies, and perspectives into their classrooms. This fosters a sense of empowerment and identity within students, allowing them to thrive. Guiding Policy & Shaping a Just Future: Policymakers need a compelling vision. "The Power of Afrocentric Education: Cultivating Equity and Achievement Through Policy" speaks directly to their goals. This approach tackles educational inequities, ensuring all students flourish. Join the Conversation! By fostering an interconnected ecosystem of Afrocentric education, we can empower students, guide practice, and inform policy. Let's build a more just and equitable educational landscape together. #AfrocentricEducation #Educ

As we look ahead to the 2024 - 2025 school year, let’s reflect on the power of lifelong learning in shaping the future of STEM education. Share your vision or a new project idea for the upcoming school year in the comments! Tag a fellow educator or STEM professional to get their take. #stem #stemeducation #education #edutech #makereducation

With #SEL so important, read this Edutopia - George Lucas Educational Foundation article on how schools apply and reflect their commitment to social-emotional learning in their walls. #k12 #Education #Students #socialemotionallearning

Latest research shows the growing importance of integrating arts into STEM education. Here’s how our kits make a difference. #STEAM #EducationTrend https://lnkd.in/gc4ekEib

Inside the New Wave of Old-School Education This is an extraordinary story about a group of extraordinary, and growing, set of schools. These schools are bringing back the old in order to counteract the shortcomings of the new and to lay a foundation for much more productive, capable and responsible individuals. From the article: "The classical way of educating places a special emphasis on forming the faculties by which man can be free.” The "old" should not be just for education. It is time for some of the old to begin to replace some of the new in companies also. #education #freedom #classics

RIDE in reverse. A conceptual framework to introduce STEM/STEAM education in non-STEM/STEAM schools. Stay tuned.

How is your school celebrating Education Week? With the 2024 theme of Spotlight on Stem, there are so many ways to celebrate. Need some ideas to get started? The Department of Education has you covered. Check out their great suggestions here: https://lnkd.in/d2BB_ByY #EdWeekVic #StateSchools #Education

🚨 NEW: Thomas Toch and Liz Cohen of FutureEd at Georgetown wrote yesterday about the strong ROI of high-impact tutoring, including Teach For America's Ignite Fellowship. 📚 "Schools that implemented “high-impact” tutoring—where students work in small groups during the school day with the same tutor in 30-minute sessions three times a week over several months—have been strikingly successful." 📚 "Those programs are producing an average of more than four months of additional learning in elementary literacy and nearly 10 months of additional learning in secondary school math, says Susanna Loeb, a Stanford education economist who leads a highly regarded tutoring research center." 📚 "In a sense, it shouldn’t be surprising that high-quality tutoring is effective. Affluent families have long used it to help their kids. One measure of the demand for outside support: The number of private tutoring centers—charging an average of $300 a month and out of the financial reach of many families—more than tripled between 1997 and 2016, from roughly 3,000 to nearly 10,000." 📚 "Last year, more than 1,500 undergrads from 300 other colleges and universities tutored 3,500 elementary and middle school students across 100 schools in 21 states, making Teach For America Ignite Fellowship the nation’s largest tutoring program enlisting college students exclusively. 57% of the Ignite fellows were people of color, and, strikingly, 350 became public school teachers the following year." Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eB533ik9. #OneDay #TeachForAmerica #Ignite #Tutoring #PandemicRecovery