July 2008
- About the Center for Success in High-Need Schools: ACI's Center for Success in High-Need Schools 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 – in the hope that the positive lessons we have learned at the Center will help shape policies and programs throughout Illinois and across the nation.
- Center News: ACI's Center for Success Summer Institute featured Dr. Susan Moore Johnson: ACI's Summer Institute is a two day conference dedicated to retaining teachers in high-need schools by providing innovative and interactive sessions focused on strategic areas of teaching and learning.
- Center News: Center Retention Findings
- Campus Focus: Dominican University's Innovation Project: The Chicago Diaspora: Understanding Our Histories and Understanding Ourselves: Improving teachers' capacity to provide culturally responsive instruction to diverse student populations is likely to improve student learning overall, to increase academic expectations and to induce empathy for students' differences (Darling-Hammond, 2004). So how does one prepare inservice teachers to promote culturally responsive teaching in their present classrooms?
- Campus Focus: Illinois College's Place-Bound Learners Program: An Innovation Project: Illinois College collaborated with the alternative school (known as "Lafayette Center") operated by the Brown/Cass/Morgan/Scott Regional Office of Education (ROE) #46, to implement a "Place-Bound Learners Program" to address the needs of students who are temporarily unable to attend classes.
- Center Announcement: Diversity at the Blackboard Summer Academies Hosted by Lake Forest College and University of St. Francis
- Center Announcement: Annual Center Arts & Sciences Colloquium, September 26
- Center Announcement: Online Journal Call for Manuscripts
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