09/04/2026
🐾VAHS Staff visited the new jewel of Madison, the $33 million dollar Center for Black Excellence during professional development days before school started. Staff came away with a strong appreciation for the Center's mission to become a hub for community networking and collaboration. They learned about cognitive redlining, the systemic underdevelopment of cognitive capacities and information processing for marginalized populations and how to overcome it. The purpose behind the Center's creation extends far beyond celebrating Black excellence, into perpetuating and lifting up emerging leaders and innovators in the community. As a school, this dovetails with our mission of eliminating barriers to inequity and promoting excellence through high expectations and quality instruction.