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Academic Leadership Association, LLC
Our award winning program is on a mission to empower youth to make positive changes within themselves and their community through mentoring, literacy, and self advocacy while addressing their social emotional needs.
Our caseworkers serve as school based mentors and advocates to provide tiered intervention and supports to help support the staff, students and parents. In addition to this, our caseworkers are available to conduct home visits when necessary and to participate in community outings. We are looking to bridge the gap between school, family, and the community.
Education Consulting Services
Professional Learning for Educators
Equity in Action
The purpose of this series is to support educators in reflecting on and deepening their relationships with students. Through exploring research about the neuroscience of emotions, unconscious bias, belonging, and listening, educators will practice applying concrete strategies for deepening their connections with students and overcoming common obstacles in relationship building. When relationships are stronger and deeper, we are able to cultivate more joy in teaching.
Meet the ALA team
Yeselie Tulloch
Business Operations Manager
Cheryl Tulloch
Clinical Supervisor
Juan Miranda
Leadership Coach
Tyler Almeida
Mentor
Dr. Tim Allen
Chief Consultant
Hannah Cheney
School-Based Mentor
Ajanay Hill
Assistant School-Based Mentor
Zack Cameron
School-Based Mentor
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Vilenti D. Tulloch, MA.Edu, LSWA
Consulting with Purpose
Vilenti Tulloch, winner of numerous awards for his community service that include an NAACP award for his community service as well as several other community awards in and around the Western MA area. He is the CEO of the Academic Leadership Association (ALA), a school-based mentoring and leadership program whom’s mission is to empower youth to make positive changes within themselves and their school community through mentoring, leadership and advocacy. In his role, Vilenti trains mentors, leads school based mentoring, and provides professional development programs to multiple school districts in Western Massachusetts.
Vilenti serves as the Co-Founder of the Academic Leadership Association of Greater Springfield, a non-profit organization that offers summer enrichment camps and programming, after school school programming, and community engaging field trips free to youth in the middle school empowerment zones in the Greater Springfield area.
Vilenti is the President of The Forum, an organization complete with black and brown male educators whom’s mission is to improve outcomes for youth by increasing the number of professionals who are men of color in the k-12 school systems of Western MA.
Further, Vilenti serves as a member of the Gun Violence Elimination Alliance in Springfield, and is the Vice President of the Hilltop Academy, a upstart school not for profit academy whose mission is in Forging a powerful, innovative, and transformative model of education that emboldens and prepares students for life, college, service, trade, and/or career through natural and holistic, simplistic yet rigorous, relevant and engaging learning practices, and through the strong ties we build with our families and communities.
It is Vilenti’s passion to provide educational opportunities that meet the needs of all students, specifically the underserved and overlooked populations of students.
Vilenti holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology at Westfield State University, a Master’s Degree in Educational Psychology from American International College, and is a doctoral candidate at American International College.