The Illinois Board of Higher Education has awarded the University a grant to support work in three Professional Development Schools, two University charter schools (North Kenwood / Oakland and Donoghue) and the National Teachers Academy, a neighborhood school operated by the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). The annually renewable grant, totaling approximately $1 million over three years, will enable CEMSE and the Center for Urban School Improvement to work closely with the three Professional Development Schools (PDSs) to strengthen mathematics and science instruction. A key goal of the project will be to disseminate its effects beyond the PDSs, first to a network of six CPS partnership schools and then across the entire CPS. Tim Knowles of the Center for Urban School Improvement (USI) is Principal Investigator and CEMSE’s Debbie Leslie (daleslie@uchicago.edu) is Project Director. See the project synopsis for further details.
A project newsletter was started to share information with participants at the various sites. Three issues were published in 2007:
IBHE Teacher Development Newsletter v1, 1