Intensive academic care at Moos
Maria Cruz was thrilled when the local school council at Moos Elementary chose her to replace the principal who retired last year. With 18 years under her belt at the West Town school—as a math...
View ArticleLoose reins pay off at McAuliffe
Three years ago, McAuliffe Elementary in Hermosa, had a bad reputation. Students were unruly, fear and mistrust were rampant among staff and the community was not involved. Academic performance was...
View ArticleTackling schools stuck at bottom
Seven months on the job, and Area 14 Instructional Officer Jose Torres has quite a task ahead of him. Until last year, most of the 26 schools he oversees had shown little or no progress for more than a...
View ArticleTough stance in Area 14 backfires, few schools do better
Before Jose Torres stepped in, his predecessor in the Area 14 instructional office spent four years trying to make a difference for a group of low-performing schools in Englewood, Auburn Gresham and...
View ArticleA tale of two area offices: One leaps ahead, one doesn’t
Once upon a time, there was a very large school district called Chicago Public Schools. It had hundreds of thousands of children to educate, thousands of teachers to teach them and hundreds of...
View ArticlePlaying good cop, bad cop
Chief Education Officer Barbara Eason-Watkins recognized early on the importance of principals in raising student achievement. The problem, however, was that many of them needed training and coaching...
View ArticleComings & Goings
HIGH SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION STAFF Allan Alson, head of High School Transformation, is leaving his post. Angus Mairs, who planned the district’s High School Transformation curriculum, has left CPS to...
View ArticleComings and Goings
TRANSFORMING HIGH SCHOOLS Allan Alson, who resigned as executive director of the CPS Office of High School Transformation, is the new director of the leadership development program at the Consortium...
View ArticleTop CTA officials move to CPS
Adam Case, former chief of customer communications for the Chicago Transit Authority, is now deputy chief of staff to CEO Ron Huberman; Denise Turner, former senior project consultant in performance...
View ArticleFor the Record: Network offices
CPS officials announced Tuesday that they are cutting the number of networks, the mid-level administrative units that work directly with schools. Nearly every administration has reorganized these...
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