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DO YOU WANT TO DRIVE SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH A CAREER IN EDUCATION?

Consider becoming a Junior Servant Leader at an upcoming Freedom Schools Literacy Academy to explore your interest in teaching. Once you complete your teacher apprenticeship, you are eligible to apply for a Black Teacher Pipeline Fellowship.

All FSLA participants are eligible for the Center’s Black Teacher Pipeline Fellowship that provides academic support, professional coaching, college scholarships and retention bonuses.

We are currently accepting applications for afterschool programming at select schools in Philadelphia, PA; Memphis, TN and Detroit, MI. Check back in January 2024 to apply for a summer 2024 position.

 

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JUNIOR SERVANT LEADER

ROLES AND QUALIFICATIONS

Ideal applicants are committed to racial justice, educational equity and exploring teaching as a career. 

We seek high school students from diverse backgrounds who reside in cities where we run programs and are open to taking on challenges, engaging in courageous conversations and responding to constructive feedback. Must be solutions-oriented and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment. Experience in or openness to servant leadership preferred. 

Work demands include: assisting with teaching one-on-one and in small groups; supporting lesson plans and classroom set up; chaperoning students in their charge; reading, annotating and completing assignments; planning lessons; attending workshops, debrief meetings and weekly Mbongi; ability to physically maneuver in classrooms and work while standing up to three hours.

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Ramier Jones
Junior Servant Leader 2020
Ramier Jones
Junior Servant Leader 2020

In Freedom Schools, culture and tradition are very important. If you don’t know your culture, you lose a part of yourself.

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Jacob Gray
Junior Servant Leader 2021
Jacob Gray
Junior Servant Leader 2021

What’s special about this camp is honestly the uplifting and emphasis on Black culture: how they want to embed into these children that you are Black, you are beautiful. You are Black and intelligent.

Destini Williams
Junior Servant leader 2022
Destini Williams
Junior Servant leader 2022

What interested me in taking the role as a Junior Servant Leader was having the ability to motivate children to learn and also to get a better understanding of the history of education attracted me.

It is my ambition to become a teacher when I grow up.

Jaleya Martin
Junior Servant Leader 2021
Jaleya Martin
Junior Servant Leader 2021

Freedom Schools Literacy Academy is really fun and interactive!

Melissa Leslie
Junior Servant Leader 2020
Melissa Leslie
Junior Servant Leader 2020

You learn here what you can do to change the outside world.

Oriana Smith
Junior Servant Leader 2022
Oriana Smith
Junior Servant Leader 2022

I would recommend this experience 100 percent to my friends because it was not only fun, but it exposed me to new ideas.

I would encourage them to join the education profession for the sake of their own education.

I want them to know that it is crucial for them to stand up and speak out about the unfairness of the system but most importantly, be the change.

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