TEACHING ACADEMY

THERE IS NO SOCIAL JUSTICE WITHOUT EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE.

The Teaching Academy offers high school courses for students to explore their interests in becoming educator-activists. Our Le Count-Catto Curriculum, which is based in Black pedagogy and historical frameworks, helps students make the connection between teaching and activism.

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

Teaching Academy after-school courses can be structured for up to five days a week for all four years of high school. We also offer college credits through dual enrollment so that students can graduate high school with an associate’s degree in education and certification as an educational paraprofessional.

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HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

YOUR FUTURE AWAITS.

The Center’s Teaching Academy seeks Black students who dream of becoming educators:

  • Serious about intellectual development
  • Civically aware and engaged
  • Dedicated to social change

Accepted candidates participate in the Teaching Academy once a week after school throughout the school year. Program graduates are given priority consideration for paid internships at upcoming Freedom Schools Literacy Academy sessions.

Come explore, examine and practice an educational philosophy that’s designed to ensure Black children thrive in school and life. Meet other young Black scholars who share your frustration, impatience and social-justice imperatives.

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2022 TEACHING ACADEMY PROGRAM REPORT

During our pilot of the Teaching Academy program during the 2021-22 school year, students demonstrated encouraging signs:

  • 160 high school students enrolled in one semester across FOUR sites in THREE states (Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Michigan).
  • 35% rate of increase in teaching.
  • 94% interested in attending college.
  • 12 statistically significant outcomes across each of the five targeted growth categories.
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TEACHING ACADEMY IN ACTION

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THE EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE MODEL OF THE TEACHING ACADEMY

A LIBERATING EDUCATION PHILOSOPHY

  • Accepting only progress towards excellence, not norms stigmatizing marginalized children as perpetually behind.
  • Cultivating a sense of self within a rich genealogy of Black leaders and innovators.
  • Building a reverence for learning through rigorous content, educational structures and a supportive communal environment.

THE BLACK EXPERIENCE, FRONT AND CENTER

  • Pedagogical explorations, ideological frameworks and documented practice of educational thinkers and writers throughout the African diaspora.
  • The language, philosophy and theories which helped people of African descent organize their educational systems, while adapting or learning from these systems to improve and enrich our current reality.
  • Literature and programming that values and explores the cultural experiences and the intellectual inheritance of participants while exposing them to the larger world as conscious change agents.

THE PRACTICE OF COMMUNAL LEARNING

  • Learning centered in partnership and collective success.
  • Shared growth over individual advancement.
  • Fostering a sense of community with a true investment in the well-being of each other and a supportive learning environment.
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OUR REACH & IMPACT

2022 TEACHING ACADEMY PILOT
160 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
35% Increased interest in teaching

SIGNIFICANT OUTCOMES


TARGETED GROWTH AREAS

  • Academic Self-efficacy
  • Interest in Teaching and Higher Education
  • Black Pedagogy and Historical Frameworks
  • Positive Racial Identity
  • Social-Justice Orientation

 

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