Platform 2012

Grace's Platform 2012

Village Home has been growing stronger for almost 10 years, and now has two locations providing brighter social and learning opportunities. We continue to give learners of all ages an inspiring place to learn, and we are still growing with more and more students each year. 

We want to continue to empower learners of all ages, and create even more opportunities for older and younger generations of Village to connect and learn from each other. Peer to peer education is valuable, but we also want to give younger learners a chance to learn from the older generation. Toward this end, we plan to implement Next Generation Tutoring, a service provided by the teens of Village Home to educate younger learners on a topic they both enjoy.  This will create opportunities for different ages to interact, while providing teaching experience for the the elder learners.  We believe that through this program we will better connect our learners across the ages.

Village Home currently provides "cubbies" for learners, which are stationed along one side of the downstairs hallway.  Large crowds tend to form around these cubbies as learners collect their supplies for their next class, and this can make it challenging for younger learners and even parents and teachers to get through the hall.  To fix this problem, we plan to relocate some of the cubbies to the student lounge upstairs, making more room in the hallway while simultaneously encouraging teens to meet in the lounge and not congest the halls.

Although Village Home is a well-loved and inspiring place, funds are always needed to keep up our teacher and staff salaries and still continue to keep tuition costs low. We believe that we could achieve this be reaching out beyond our community to find larger financial support. We will strive to bring awareness to the nation about our powerful learning community, and spread the word about a different choice for education. 

We believe that our learners have the power to be responsible, and that they are the drivers of their education. Village Home has truly put the students in the driver's seat of their own education, and now we want to take that one step further by giving students the option to take on more responsibility in the community and voice their concerns and opinions.  We believe this will bring the community closer together and help make it an even brighter place for everyone.