3-week interdisciplinary course focused on guiding young learners as they conduct action research about the impact of data centers in Chicagoland and beyond. Students will have an opportunity to meet with activists and legislators working on this environmental justice issue. They will also develop their own community actions that integrate the science/STEM, art, and the communications/writing skills they’ve learned throughout the course.
Liberatory Education. Participatory Research. Collective Action.
Liberatory Education. Participatory Research. Collective Action.
Courses begin June 22, 2026.
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*We currently offer courses for young folks in 5th-8th Grade. High school courses coming soon.
Liberation Education Collective offers virtual extracurricular courses on the topics young people want to learn.
Vision Statement
Liberation Education Collective (LEC) cultivates the next generation of activists by providing extracurricular education that unapologetically dives into the content public school curricula are increasingly forced to omit.
Through interdisciplinary lessons, participatory action research, and skill-building in ELA, humanities, & social sciences, LEC helps young people to steward liberatory frameworks into age-appropriate collective action against political repression.
Expected Outcomes for Students
Exciting Learners
Young people will become more excited about learning, due to our non-hierarchical, participatory approach to the teacher/student relationship
Impacting Worlds
Young people will learn how to take tangible, impactful actions that reduce the power and scope of institutions and structures that harm marginalized communities
Engaging Communities
Young people will gain the skills and knowledge to become participatory members of their community & learn to be in solidarity with historically marginalized communities
Let’s build a better world, generation by generation.
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