Tuition Based Pre-Schools — fee-based
preschool programs at CPS schools.
High School Book Club —
mayoral efforts to address adolescent literacy by offering high school students
the time, choices, and support to become more accomplished readers.
Charter
School Facilities — charter school operators' efforts to deal with challenging
physical facilities, shared space, securing funding for continued growth, expansion,
renovations, and facility upgrades.
Evening High Schools —
CPS high schools with alternative, flexible schedules.
National Board
Certification: A Chicago Initiative — implementation of national standards
and certification for Chicago teachers.
Leadership Academy and Urban
Network for Chicago — principal training and certification alternative
for Chicago public schools.
Structured Curriculum — evaluates
the level and quality of structured curriculum implementation in CPS schools and
its impact on teacher creativity.
Teachers
for Chicago — instructional and evaluative resource to explain, evaluate,
and select alternative certification options for people changing careers into
education field.
Transition Centers — alternative program
for students not prepared to make the transition to main stream high schools.
Service
Learning — evaluation of efforts to require high school students to complete
forty hours of community service before graduation.
School Technology
— findings revealed the need for uniform, city-wide teacher training to ensure
computer usage is integrated into school curricula and for school improvement
plans to include annual technology upgrades.
Summer Bridge —
evaluates CPS efforts to deliver summer school programs systemwide.
Board-School
Communication — findings reveals redundancies and communications breakdowns
between CPS central office and its schools.
Small Schools —
evaluation of characteristics, impact, and benefits of small schools and learning
communities in Chicago public schools.
Parents as Teachers First
— CPS efforts to encourage better parenting skills for low income families.
School
Prototype Designs — use of prototype building designs to build new CPS
schools.
Learning Disabilities: A Private Partnership — discusses
the impact of outside contracted services on working with learning disabled children.
Year-Round
Schools — assessment of the impact of year-round schools on teachers,
students, and families.
Edge/Up: A school to Work Initiative —
examines the impact of a school-to-work program in a city community.
High
School Technology — evaluates the status of computer use in high schools.
Rush
Neurobehavioral Center/Catholic School Partnership — examines a collaboration
to pilot a program for the identification and instruction of students with learning
disabilities.
Executive Function
Skills — evaluates a learning management system to help children
develop time management, organization, problem-solving, prioritizing, goal-setting
skills.
Climate
Analysis Surveys™
A Principal's
Day — assesses the complex and changing realities of over 80% of
CPS principals' time; explores the extent to which principals are able to devote
time and attention to the implementation of the school vision, instructional leadership,
and curriculum development.
Parent Involvement
— evaluates parent involvement in 93% of Chicago public schools.
Applications
of Research (brochures available)
Staying
Put — research-based, multi-pronged awareness campaign to reduce impact
of mobility on student achievement.
Will Your Child Drop Out
of School? — Positive intervention early in a child's education has been
proven to determine future school performance. Learn how to predict and prevent
trouble in children's education. (English and Spanish)
Start the
School Year on the Right Foot — Guide for parents and children, including
a checklist of things to remember at the beginning of the year and ways to be
active in your children's education. (English and Spanish)
Time
for Learning — More time for learning means that students learn more.
Examines time use in schools and offers suggestions to strategically address the
shortage of learning time. (English and Spanish)
When Adults
— How adults can help children achieve. (English and Spanish)
30
Minutes A Day — Ideas for parents to encourage their children's academic
development at home and at school. (English and Spanish)
Continuous
Learning Experience™ — Children can lose up to three months of learning
during summer vacation. Includes suggestions to prevent this loss and enrich children's
education over the summer. (English and Spanish)
If You Move —
Transferring schools affects students' achievement in the classroom. Learn how
to reduce student mobility and its negative impact on school performance. (English
and Spanish)
Overcoming Barriers to Parent Involvement —
Practical solutions for parents and teachers to common barriers to parent involvement:
communication, logistics, experience, and child resistance. (English and Spanish)
Start
early… Read often — The ability to read is the most valuable gift
a child can receive. Offers reading tips and suggestions to parents, teachers.
(English and Spanish)
Case Studies of Improving
Schools
A series of twelve reports on individual schools that gives
educators the opportunity to learn from the experience of others. Topics include:
reading and writing curriculum; year round education; the challenges of integrating
diverse student populations into one school; academics; school-level initiatives
and programs, and changing trends in education.
