YWLCS in the News
2006
YWLCS Has Its First Posse Scholar
Jennifer C. has been awarded a full four year scholarship to Denison University. The Posse Foundation identifies, recruits and trains student leaders from public high schools to form multicultural teams called "Posses."
These teams are then prepared, through an intensive eight-month Pre-Collegiate Training Program, for enrollment at top colleges to pusue their studies and to help promote cross-cultural communication on campus. The work of the Posse Foundation is based on the belief that the future success of our nation rests on the ability of strong leaders from diverse backgrounds to develop consensus solutions to complex social problems, a belief we share at YWLCS. We are very proud of Jennifer.
Read more about the Posse Foundation . . .
Three YWLCS Teachers Become National Board Certified Teachers
YWLCS is proud to be an incubator for National Board Certified teachers, several of whom have gone on to principals’ training programs and PhD programs. Certification is awarded only after at least of year of intensive preparations, including video reviews of classroom practice, self assessment, and content area testing.Our newly certified teachers and their subjects are Alfonso Tapia, Spanish; Sonja Moore, Humanities, and Liz Dozier, Mathematics. They join Thomas O’Shea, Humanities.
Read more about National Board for Professional Teaching Standards vertification for teachers at: http://www.nbpts.org/the_standards/the_five_core_proposition.
2005
YWLCS Co-Director Margaret Small
Recipient of
UIC Partner Award
The City Partner Award was created in 1993 by a committee of alumni volunteers and campus staff members to recognize: "Those University of Illinois alumni who have gone on from UIC to contribute to the vitality of the Chicago metropolitan area in a special way."
The purpose and intent of the City Partner Award is to recognize the impact UIC alumni have on the region, whether the impact is quiet and generally unknown, or public and highly visible. The award identifies alumni involvement in two major venues, in either the key areas of urban development identified by the UIC Great Cities Program or in outstanding service to the University of Illinois at Chicago, itself. The six main areas of the Great Cities Institute are community development, metropolitan sustainability, health and human development, international partnerships, professional education and the UIC neighborhoods initiative. A committee of past recipients and alumni leaders determine the recipients.
Read more about the UIC Partner Award
October 2005
JCCC Foundation Awards Young Women's Leadership Charter School of Chicago $5,000 as part of over $121,000 in Annual Grants
The Young Women’s Leadership Charter School of Chicago was selected to receive a grant from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Chicago (JCCC) Foundation as part of its annual grant-giving program. This year’s grant awards bring the total amount that the JCCC Foundation has donated to educational and community organizations to over $2 million. Foundation President Tomohiro Matsumura of Mizuho Corporate Bank formally presented the grants at an award ceremony on October 18 at the Chicago Club. Speaking at the ceremony were Consul General of Japan Yutaka Yoshizawa and Illinois State Senator Miguel del Valle.
The Young Women’s Leadership Charter School of Chicago (YWLCS) received a $5,000 grant for the program“Getting Your Feet Wet in Science,” a real-life science experience in which every YWLCS student uses scientific procedures to investigate the physical, environmental, chemical and biological aspects of the Chicago River. The program was developed to address young women’s declining participation in math, science and technology, starting in middle and high school.
Founded in 1991, the JCCC Foundation is the charitable arm of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Chicago (JCCC). Funding for the JCCC Foundation grant program is derived entirely through JCCC member contributions and member-supported fund raising events. For more information on the JCCC Foundation’s grant giving program, visit www.jccc-chi.org/foundation.
September 2005
YWLCS was selected to be a Coalition of Essential Schools Emerging Mentor School beginning on 2005-06. The Coalition is a national network of schools with a mission to create and sustain equitable, intellectually vibrant, personalized schools and to make such schools the norm of American public education. Five members of our school community, including the Director, two teachers and two students attended the CES Summer Institute in July, 2005.
YWLCS has also joined the Chicago Schools Alliance for Innovation and Excellence, a group of charter and district schools committed to creating innovation and excellence in public schools and sharing best practices.
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