Legacy Education Center

04/10/2024

🌟 Exciting News Alert! 🌟

We are thrilled to announce that the Legacy Education Center has been named a beneficiary of the upcoming Morning Rotary Golf Tournament by the Lynchburg Morning Rotary Club! 🏌️‍♂️ This incredible honor will help us further our mission of providing accessible education and resources to our community.

A huge thank you to the Lynchburg Morning Rotary Club for their generous support and commitment to making a difference. Together, we can empower individuals to reach their full potential and create positive change. 🙌

11/30/2023

LEC thanks Freedom First Credit Union for their generous support with their Play for Purpose program.

It's been an incredible week for our program! We're so proud that we've been able to give back a total of $12,500 to the Blacksburg and Lynchburg communities. 🤩 Let's keep spreading the love through basketball season! Virginia Tech Athletics NRV CARES Literacy NRV The Lighthouse Community Center of Lynchburg Legacy Education Center

11/21/2023

Thomas Edison’s Mom (powerful read)

Words can be weapons that diminish and destroy, or they can be tools and instruments that create, encourage and uplift.
The story is told that one day, as a small child, Thomas Edison came home from school and gave a paper to his mother. He said, “Mom, my teacher gave this paper to me and told me only you are to read it. What does it say?”
Her eyes welled with tears as she read the letter out loud to her child: “Your son is a genius. This school is too small for him and doesn’t have good enough teachers to train him. Please teach him yourself.”

Many years after Edison’s mother had died, he became one of the greatest inventors of the century. One day Edison was going through old family things in a desk, and found a folded letter from his old teacher in the corner of the drawer. He opened it and found that the true message written on the letter: “Your son is mentally deficient. We cannot let him attend our school anymore. He is expelled.”
Edison cried for a lengthy period of time then wrote in his diary:
“Thomas A. Edison was a mentally deficient child whose mother turned him into the genius of the century.”

10/29/2022

“Peggy Carr, the head of the U.S. Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, explained that “what we’re seeing is (lower performing) students … dropping even faster, and we’re also seeing students who were not showing declines—students at the top, meaning students at the higher performing levels—they were holding steady before the pandemic or even improving.”

But she stipulated to CNN that “now all the students, regardless of their ability, are dropping. That is the point we need to be taking away from this report.”

Fourth- and eighth-graders had the largest-ever decline in math this year in nearly every state, according to a national ...

08/18/2022

Thank you Stephanie! Legacy Education Center is so appreciative of your extra effort to help our students facing adversity. Your heart for people will serve our community with new inspiring leadership. 📚👨‍🏭🧑🏾‍⚕️👩🏽‍🏫🧑🏼‍🚒 ❤️

On Tuesday, I had the chance to visit the Legacy Education Center to learn more about the work they are doing in our city. The center provides necessary life skills education, academic support, and career development training and planning.

Their work is making a fantastic impact in the City of Lynchburg by addressing the tough challenges in workforce development and barriers to employment.

07/23/2022

Cowboy Club for Texas Sheriff Association Tournament. Go Patriots! 😂😂

12/01/2021

08/18/2021

07/29/2021

“If you spend more time trying to help others than trying to impress them, others will find you much more impressive.”

This is what I truly admire with our LEC staff (Dr. Foster, Ms. Shirley, Tiffany, Dr. Mavinga, Cheryl, Sharon, Matt & now Ben Reeves) incredible professionals that are so committed to helping students achieve success. It is truly beautiful to witness their sacrificial investment and servant leadership.

Looking forward to their impact in 2021-2022!

Onward & upward!

07/26/2021

When someone criticizes you remember this: I’m not here on Earth for someone else to define me. I am here for God to refine me into what He wants me to be instead of what someone else says I am. Jon Gordon

07/20/2021

Vision always centers on people, not projects, products, or programs.

3 Truths About Leadership:

1. Leadership isn’t about gaining power. It’s about empowering others.

2. Great leaders succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.

3. You don’t have to be great to serve but you have to serve to be a great leader.

Thankful for a team of servant leaders who commit to serving the transformation of our students. Outcomes are the ultimate measure of impact. Onward & Upward

07/14/2021

Everybody needs to hear this!

“Easiest thing in the world! https://t.co/OsSzjw3ttv”