Yleana Leadership Academy

The Yleana Leadership Academy (YLA) is a summer program for students from high-need schools in major East coast cities where students live in a residential program and receive intensive SAT preparatory classes, as well as education about the real-world issues of justice and inequality. As a teacher for the YLA, I received extensive training on teaching test-taking strategies by building students’ critical thinking skills. Teaching at Yleana taught me to teach using the socratic method, to manage a classroom of students even during conflict, and to understand how students’ backgrounds impact their learning.