Inside this Issue
This issue of Success in High-Need Schools explores P-20 school-college-business collaboration, the essential process through which the Center fulfills its mission to recruit, prepare, and retain excellent teachers for Illinois' high-need schools. This issue of ACI's Center for Success in High-Need Schools online journal features a Center white paper on business-education partnerships -- their history, purposes, and best practices. The issue follows with case studies of P-20 collaboration in urban, rural, and suburban settings, the perspectives and goals of the partners, and what these collaborations have been able to achieve that the partners would be unable to accomplish alone. Guest columns provide perspectives of participants, including what is critical for partnerships to work in achieving their goals. The essential focus, of course, is on collaboration to improve teaching in high-need schools and student success in closing the achievement gap.
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News & Announcements
- About the Center for Success in High-Need Schools ACI's Center pursues five strategies designed to transform the way in which teachers for the nation's high-need schools are recruited, prepared, and retained: 1) Increasing the number and diversity of qualified teachers in high-need schools; 2) strengthening teachers' content knowledge in core competencies, such as math, science, and reading; 3) developing model curricula addressing the specific challenges of high-need schools; 4) encouraging teachers' long-term commitments to high-need classrooms through induction supports and mentoring; 5) disseminating a new body of knowledge on improving teaching and learning in high-need schools through diverse media and events.
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Message from the Center Director
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In 2004, the Associated Colleges of Illinois launched ACI's Center for Success in High-Need Schools as a collaborative initiative among its 23 member colleges. Could a statewide network of colleges, historically competitors for students, and their partnering K-12 schools and businesses |
work together to develop programs to recruit, prepare, and retain teachers for high-need schools -- urban, suburban, and rural? Could they share resources, collaborate on ideas, and develop teamwork as their awareness of best practices and effective strategies grew Continue
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