Global Leadership Academy Charter School will nurture creative leaders who will be globally competitive yet compassionate. As holistic educators, we will not only prepare our students for the 21st Century work place, but prepare students to bring change to a better world. Completing its fourth year of serving children and families after restructuring the original charter, GLA enrolls more than six hundred seventy students in grades kindergarten through eight. Although we have a strong community base of enrollment from the West Philadelphia community, our global studies curriculum attracts students from other Philadelphia communities including Southwest Philadelphia, North Philadelphia, Northeast Philadelphia and Northwest Philadelphia. It is our goal that GLA students graduate endowed with the knowledge to continue to carve out new paths in the global community. It is this level of emotional intelligence, social intelligence and spiritual intelligence that will propel students to persist through high school and gain the fortitude required to successfully attain their life mission and goals.
We are a professional performance company who uses dance, music, theater, and literature to spread the positive message of hip hop across the country and world.
The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, or Kirkbride's Hospital, or the Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases, was a former psychiatric hospital located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It operated from its founding in 1841 until 1997. The remaining building, now called the Kirkbride Center is now part of the Blackwell Human Services Campus.Two large hospital structures and an elaborate pleasure ground were built on a campus that stretched along the north side of Market Street, from 45th to 49th Streets. Thomas Story Kirkbride, the hospital's first superintendent and physician-in-chief, developed a more humane method of treatment for the mentally ill there, that became widely influential.History19th centuryPennsylvania Asylum for the Insane—Kirkbride's HospitalIn the late 1830s, the managers of Pennsylvania Hospital began erecting a large asylum to replace the hospital's crowded insane wards at 8th and Spruce Streets. The 101acre site chosen was a former farm in the as-yet unincorporated district of West Philadelphia. The first structure for the Pennsylvania Asylum for the Insane was designed by Isaac Holden and was located near what is now 46th and Market Streets. Completed in 1841, the facility offered comforts and a "humane treatment" philosophy that set a standard for its day. Unlike other asylums where patients were often kept chained in crowded, unsanitary wards with little if any treatment, patients at the Pennsylvania Asylum resided in private rooms, received medical treatment, worked outdoors and enjoyed recreational activities including lectures and a use of the hospital library. The facility came to be called "Kirkbride's Hospital."
Q.E.D. quod e·rat de·mon·stran·dum [kwawd e-raht dey-mawn-strahn-doom; Eng. kwod er-uht dem-uhn-stran-duhm] Latin That which is to be shown or demonstrated. -*-*-*-*-*-* QED space is a project based in West Philadelphia founded in 2012. The focus of the space is to bring amazing minds together to share ideas. QED Space features events from around the planet which intersect the sciences, consciousness, art, and nature.