Building a foundation of effective instruction and the right climate and culture.
Join the Chicago Teacher Residency to transform the lives of children in Chicago’s high-poverty schools.
AUSL has trained over 500 teachers and manages 25 schools serving over 14,000 students.
May 20, 2013 – The president of The New Teacher Project (TNTP) Tim Daly and Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett today surprised Javier Velazquez, AUSL's Howe School of Excellence math teacher, as he has been named one of four teachers nationwide to be awarded the 2013 Fishman Prize for Superlative Classroom Practice. This prestigious award honors excellence in teaching for the nation...
May 17, 2013 – When Mauricia Dantes wanted to switch careers to become a teacher, the hands-on classroom training offered by one master’s degree program drew her in. Through this residency program, Dantes trained under an experienced mentor teacher in a real classroom. The Academy for Urban School Leadership, a nonprofit organization, has worked with Chicago Public Schools for 10 years to ref...
April 29, 2013 – Six questions for Brian Sims, managing director for training academies and teacher development at the Academy for Urban School Leadership Reese: Explain the AUSL program. Sims: We are a nonprofit that partners with Chicago Public Schools to help fix failing schools in the school district. We do that based on our approach to school management and our teacher-training program. The...
During my Spring Lead Teach, I have been teaching Kindergarteners at NTA about different community helpers and how they contribute to our needs and wants. While learning about these community helpers, kindergartners are learning about producers and consumers. We learned about builders/construction workers and how they provide us our need for shelter. We also learned about school principals, vet...
During 2012-2013 School year, AUSL will award over $100,000 in small-grants that will go directly to AUSL Teachers and their classrooms.
“Stagg makes learning fun!”
— Shaheed Stewart, Stagg School of Excellence student
