“If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.”
~African Proverb
At GRACE Learning Village, we believe:
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that access to a sound, humanizing education is a right, not a privilege.
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that living in emotionally safe and economically sustainable neighborhoods is a right, not a privilege.
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that the essential assets needed to heal and strengthen communities facing significant social and economic adversity already exist WITHIN those communities.
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that establishing a holistic community support system, including academic and social services, is essential to empowering children, their families and other concerned community members as social justice change agents.
GRACE Learning Village
Leveraging individual and corporate donations with community assets and state and federal government funding, the nonprofit organization, GRACE Learning Village, will implement and manage the GRACE Learning Village School (GLVS) model as well as the accompanying Neighborhood Healing Centre (NHC).
GRACE Learning Village School
GLVS is a Reparations School. Its establishment is the intentional effort to mitigate the various adverse social, emotional, economic, & political impacts that racism, oppression & white supremacy culture have had and continue to have on BIPOC. As compensation for centuries of FREE social and physical labor, and until the public school system is deemed academically and social-emotionally safe(r) for BIPOC by BIPOC, GLVS will offer high quality private education for low to moderate income BIPOC at little to no direct cost to them so that they can focus on other essential family and community healing efforts with which GLV & the NHC will assist. This education will be PRIMARILY FUNDED by individuals, organizations, and businesses who agree that reparations are necessary to repair the harm that has been done (& continues to be done) to Communities of Color.
More specifically, GLVS will consist of a PreK through 12th grade campus. The academic program is rooted in Pro-Black Indigenous People of Color(BIPOC), project-based, social justice-focused curricula & pedagogies with a significant emphasis on Social Emotional Learning. The residential housing experience will provide nurturing spaces for youth in foster care as well as for youth whose families desire a more intensive educational experience.
Neighborhood Healing Centres
NHCs will empower youth and adults within the communities they are located by serving as a hub for the delivery of social services and community development programs. We also seek to provide Humanizing Professional Learning (HPL) for educators to make public schools safer academic and social spaces for BIPOC children and families. We will also offer HPL to organizations desiring to authentically assess and improve their equity goals, policies and practices.