For rising 6th through 8th graders.
Class Dates
June 22 - July 10, 2026
4-5:30 PM CDT on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays
About
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.
| Radical lessons to end knowledge suppression |
| Radical lessons to end knowledge suppression |
Courses begin June 22, 2026.
Enroll today.
*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.
Our Mission
We engage young people in knowledge stewardship and skill-building so they will be better equipped to engage with the world in meaningful, values-aligned ways as they grow into adulthood. Through inquiry, interdisciplinary practices, and collective action, we support students to co-create their vision of a better world.
Our Values
Our Vision
We envision educational systems beyond colonialism and white supremacy, where students have the agency to pursue knowledge, no matter who or where they are.
Access to education is a fundamental human right.
Young people deserve the right to pursue a truthful understanding of the world.
We practice reciprocity, connection, and collectivism, resourcing one another and ourselves in resistance to oppression.
Transformative education means that young people are offered the tools, taught the skills, and supported in cultivating the criticality they need to build a more just world.
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