Marcus Harden Talks the Education of Black Boys, Servant Leadership, Faith, & More | Watch God Work

📣👊🏿 In this new episode of Watch God Work with Lawrence E. Adjah we welcome our brother Marcus Harden. We talk the Education of Black Boys and Men, Servant Leadership, Faith, Community & More.
Marcus Harden is the Co-Founder and Lead Learner of the Academy for Creating Excellence, an all-male school with a mission to create high-quality educational experiences for young men, with a focus on African-American/Black and Latino males.
The Southeast Seattle native is an educator, school leader, but he’s been fittingly given the title of a quiet community superhero and champion of the people by national media and the communities where he serves.
Marcus has love for people and a heart for seeing the best in all people, especially, our youth. Marcus has served in education, non-profit, state and federal domains for 15 years, serving in the office of Former First Lady & Senator Hillary R. Clinton as an intern, then as Executive Director of (ACAP) The Accounting Career Awareness Program; Race to the Top Grant Program Manager for Rainier Beach High school; Director of Community Engagement for the Washington State Charter School Association, and currently serves as Principal/Lead Learner of the Academy for Creating Excellence an aspiring educational model that focuses on cultivating the innate excellence inside of African American males.
ACE launched in 2012, offering educational workshops in Seattle. In 2016, in partnership with the City of Seattle Department of Early Learning and South Shore K–8, it hosted its first three-month Summer Learning Experience. This program became a pilot for a full school opening in 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia: the ACE Atlanta charter school. ACE’s pedagogy centered in love—which he calls “Loveful Pedagogy”—is based on brain development in young men specifically, with an emphasis on learning through community work; healthy competition; and candid, frequent conversation.
Marcus has a Masters of Arts in Education and Program Manager Certification from the University of Washington.
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