WHO ARE WE?
The Education for Life Academy provides 8 and 15-week academic courses on a variety of themes in Black history and culture to middle and high school students. We offer fall, spring and summer sessions. Our classes last for one hour and fifteen minutes and take place onsite at your school during any time of the academic day, including after school and Saturday sessions.
Through our college-style, project-based learning approach, the Education for Life Academy offers students a multifaceted educational experience that inspires intellectual curiosity and academic excellence. Our hands-on curriculum fosters cultural pride, self-confidence and brotherhood and sisterhood, which studies have shown increases self-esteem, academic motivation and personal behavior. At the Education for Life Academy, we prepare our students for leadership and life.
Character Building & Professional Development Activities
In addition to our academic curriculum, the Education for Life Academy provides personal and professional development activities that teach “soft skills” including professional etiquette and the importance of values such as personal responsibility, integrity and self-respect.
We host a “Professional Day” in which all the students come to school in business attire. We measure the boys for suits and teach them how to tie a necktie; we provide the girls with a wardrobe consultant to teach them appropriate workplace attire. In addition, we host mock interviews for the future jobs they desire. For lunch we expose students to international cuisine and teach them dinner etiquette. Throughout the course, we introduce students to Black achievers who have succeeded despite the odds and allow them to share what it takes to succeed.
