Antoinette McGlasker, Dean Brenda Emerson, Jason Butler, Woodsen Plummer, Danielle Armstrong, Barbara Napper and Selwyn Gill

The "Leadership Out of Diversity Documentary Project" is a collaborative idea developed by McGlasker and her six colleagues. The award will allow DeKalb Early College Academy to acquire video and digital cameras, computer equipment and production resources to create an audio-visual documentary project on diversity that is generated by students. The diversity documentaries will focus on learning what factors create naturalized immigrant leaders and about the diasporas of various cultures. Students will conduct research focused on their own ethnicities by interviewing relatives and others who share their ancestry. They will read and discuss immigrant stories from several books including "Immigrant Voices" by Gordon Hunter. They will also use multimedia technology tools to create the videos. The goal is for students to show higher order learning skills, creative resources and literary enhancement and to use the footage they film to share lessons with others about diversity and leadership.