by Imagination Staff | Mar 17, 2015
Its 2:00pm on Friday and Steve Auslander’s Imagination Chapter is well under way. Laptops, LEGO, Play-Doh and notebooks are strewn about and the classroom is alive with excited chatter, music and activity. All of Auslander’s Allisonville Elementary fifth graders...
by Imagination Staff | Jul 29, 2014
On a stifling hot day in East Los Angeles, Mara Bond walks us through the maze of classrooms that make up KIPP: Iluminar Academy. Her blonde hair is swept into a loose ponytail. She’s eager for us to step inside. We first enter a classroom where kids are huddled...
by Imagination Staff | Jun 17, 2014
Over the last several decades, the once-thriving city of Detroit has become synonymous with three troubling words: unemployment, crime, and bankruptcy. These problems have forced thousands of families to leave Detroit—and most don’t come back. Since 1950, the...
by Imagination Staff | Jun 3, 2014
Did you know that Nobel laureates in the sciences are 25 times more likely than other scientists to sing, dance, or act? That they are 17 times more likely to be a visual artist, 12 times more likely to write poetry and literature, and four times more likely to be a...
by Imagination Staff | May 2, 2014
One morning, a fifth grader walked into Mark Greenberg’s office at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy. Her laptop was open, she was a minute and a half early, and she spoke confidently about her idea for making and selling bracelets. She was “as tall as my waist” and...
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