Lessons Learned from Year 1, Beginning of Q3

We’re entering third quarter here at Washington Leadership Academy. Here are a few startup lessons learned so far:

• We wanted to build a school where we would proudly send our children. We did. In our charter application, and…

Taking the Girls for a Day Without Women…

We were nervous — not for ourselves, but for the men we left behind. They’re great men. We knew in our hearts they would be fine, but as women we could feel our traditional, stereotypical roles to provide, and solve, and organize pulling us back into the building as we forced…

Our kids built The School Leader Lab’s web site

Rising 10th graders, Zoe Valladares and Sheyla Gyles, just completed building the web site for the School Leader Lab. The School Leader Lab, run by Amanda Borden and Tatiana Epanchin, offers school leader professional development to deepen the…

WLA featured in article about the best CS, AR/VR and game design teaching tools

We’re on strike!

Good morning! You won’t hear anything else from the women and girls of Washington Leadership Academy today. We’re on strike as part of International Women’s Day and the Day Without Women. We will be visiting a women’s equality museum and the United States Congress together today while the men and…

At WLA, we share with each other and with the world — here’s a progress monitoring idea

On an average Tuesday at WLA, a math teacher, Rusty Lee, sent this video to teachers explaining the new progress monitoring tool he had implemented in his classroom. This tool is…

Check out the diversity of our staff

At Washington Leadership Academy, we prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a long way to go to keep improving, but we are trying! As a starting point, we strive to ensure that we have a staff that represents voices of all backgrounds. Here are our…