About Our Site and Aequora
Our Aequora site is located at M.S. 131, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, in Chinatown, New York City, New York. It is a school that provides many after-school programs and opportunities to its students, now including Latin.
Aequora is a K-8 program focused on literacy via Latin. At M.S. 131, we have chosen Aequora because we believe in the benefits of a classical education. Through The Paideia Institute’s Aequora curriculum, our volunteers harness the classical languages’ power to improve literacy, cultural understanding, and equity in education — all while making the ancient Mediterranean world fun and accessible to students of all backgrounds.
Led by independent site coordinators, Aequora envisions Classics as an inclusive, diverse, and socially engaged field. Our textbook, Aequora: Teaching Literacy with Latin, introduces the basics of Latin vocabulary and grammar, Roman culture and mythology, and connections between Latin, English, and Spanish, all through games and activities designed to show students that learning Latin is fun!
How We Teach Aequora
We run our Aequora Program as a club after school. We have around 10 students, for many of whom English is not a first language. The Aequora program is sustained by enthusiastic volunteers all over the country who care about making a difference and want to fight educational inequality through sharing their love of Latin.
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Site Coordinators
Our site coordinators, Reza Ramji and Eve Safer-Bakal, are 11th grade students at Friends Seminary.
Eve Safer-Bakal
Reza Ramji