Chicago Public Schools Toolkit - Contact and Resources

Resources

CPS Department Contacts

Student Connection Programming and Strategy Support

General Information
Office of High Schools and High School Programs
773-553-3540

Renae Ogletree
Department of Post Secondary Education and Student Development
Office of High Schools and High School Programs
773-553-3622

Dr. Joyce Brown
Deparment of Post Secondary Education and Student Development
Office of High Schools and High School Programs
773-553-2108

Carmita Vaughan
Interim Director, Graduation Pathways
Office of High Schools and High School Programs
773-553-5110

Dr. Reggie McClinton
Manager, Mental Health
Office of Specialized Services
773-553-1800

Dr. Linda Henry-McCarty
Elementary Counseling Unit
Office of Specialized Services
773-553-1800

Assistance with your Student Connection Data

Kristen Burton
Research, Evaluation, and Accountability
773-553-3849

Tools

Family and Community Partnerships

The Family and Community Partnerships unit at CPS can help schools initiate external partnerships to fund or administer projects/programs. Click here for a description of how the Family and Community Partnerships Office can help you! For more information, contact Jaime Dirksen in the Office of Specialized Services at 773-553-1830.

After School Matters

http://www.afterschoolmatters.org/
After School Matters, a City of Chicago initiative, offers teens hands-on job training in the arts, sports, technology, communications, and science.

School Health Index

The School Health Index is a needs and resource assessment for your school around health and climate issues. The Office of Specialized Services will support the administration and data analysis associated with this index. For more help, call Jaime Dirksen in the Office of Specialized Services at 773-553-1830.

Illinois Social and Emotional Learning Standards

http://www.isbe.net/ils/social_emotional/standards.htm
The Illinois Social and Emotional Learning Standards describe the content and skills for students in grades K-12 for social and emotional learning. The State of Illinois website above also lists additional resources and FAQs related to social and emotional learning.

Illinois Violence Prevention Authority

http://www.ivpa.org/
This is a resource for both funding and training for violence prevention initiatives and strategies.

Educators for Social Responsibility

http://www.esrnational.org/home.htm
A resource to support educators in creating safe, caring, respectful, and productive learning environments. Educators for social responsibility offers comprehensive programs, staff development, consultation, and resources for adults who teach children and young people preschool through high school, in settings including K-12 schools, early childhood centers, and after-school programs.

Youth Light

http://www.youthlight.com/
Youth Light is an education support company dedicated to providing educators with useful resources.

YRBSS: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System

(http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/index.htm)
The YRBSS was developed in 1990 to monitor priority health risk behaviors that contribute markedly to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth and adults in the United States. The YRBSS has been administered every odd-numbered year since 1991; At least 60% of sampled Chicago high school students have participated each time, yielding representative data for CPS. The survey is designed to:

Determine the prevalence of health risk behaviors.
Assess whether health risk behaviors increase, decrease, or stay the same over time.
Examine the co-occurrence of health risk behaviors.
Provide comparable national, state, and local data.
Provide comparable data among subpopulations of youth.
Monitor progress toward achieving the Healthy People 2010 objectives and other program indicators.

The YRBSS data are relevant to student connection because they contain data on weapon carrying, physical fighting, and dating violence/rape; all of which pertain to maintaining a safe and respectful school climate.

External Resources

The Consortium on Chicago School Research

http://www.consortium-chicago.org
Research on Chicago school policy and initiatives.

Military Child Initiative

http://www.jhsph.edu/mci/about/staff.html
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships have produced this web site that contains a best practices library for the areas of:

School connectedness and academic engagement
Resilience and social emotional learning
School-family-community partnerships
Mobility and transition

"Teaching Children to Care: Classroom Management for Ethical and Academic Growth"

By Ruth Sidney Charney

"Educating Minds and Hearts: Social Emotional Learning and the Passage into Adolescence"

By Cohen et. al.

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