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Chicago’s Need for Special Education Teachers

If you’re considering a career as a teacher, you might find the most rewarding opportunities in special education. Over the past decade, Chicago and the nation have experienced a severe shortage of special education teachers. Special education teachers work with students who have a wide range of learning, mental, emotional, and physical disabilities. In 2019–20, […]

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A Return to School Perspective from the Academy for Urban School Leadership

As Chicago Public Schools students head back to the classroom this month for their first full-time, in-person learning experience in 17 months, many will be grappling with significant learning and social emotional loss. After schools transitioned to remote learning in March 2020 and only partially reopened in spring 2021, an alarming number of students were […]

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Twenty years of Transforming Lives in and out of the Classroom

AUSL is an equity-focused non-profit that works tirelessly with the belief that all students should have access to an excellent education. Since 2001, AUSL’s conviction for equity in education has impacted thousands of students and families who reside in under-resourced communities. This weekend the Chicago Teacher Residency celebrated the graduation of Diverse Learner, Elementary, and Middle School teachers. Hear from CTR graduate Amaziah […]

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AUSL Network Students and Teachers Celebrate Black History Month

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="7388" img_size="full" alignment="center"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="7392" img_size="full"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="7390" img_size="full" alignment="center"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="7391" img_size="full"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Students and teachers across the AUSL network celebrated Black History Month with art, music, dance and learning! Above are a selection of creative blackboard...

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Back to School IL Awards Kits to 520 Phillips Academy High School Seniors

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="7384" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Image courtesy of @BacktoSchoolIL Twitter[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Together with Back to School IL, the Community Currency Exchange Association of Illinois (CCEA) donated Back 2 Schools kits at Wendell Phillips Academy. 520 senior students with top grades were awarded the kits at the bi-annual RISE  (Rewarding Intellectual Superior Efforts)...

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Harvard, McNair SOE Celebrate Black History Month with the Chicago Children’s Choir

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="7380" img_size="full" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Students from Harvard SOE and McNair SOE joined students from across the city to celebrate Black History Month at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with the Chicago Children's Choir. The performance included a look at Chicago's history and its contribution to culture and music since the Great Migration, when hundreds of thousands of African Americans traveled to Chicago from the South in the early twentieth century in search of a better...

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Chicago Academy High Student Receives Prestigious Act Six Scholarship

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="7360" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Image courtesy of @ChiAcadHS Twitter[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We're incredibly proud of Chicago Academy High School scholar Jailene for receiving a full-tuition, full-need scholarship from Act Six to Taylor University! Jailene is one of seven in the city of Chicago to win this prestigious award. Congratulations, Jailene![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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City Year Hosts Day of Service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Deneen SOE

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="7328" img_size="large" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Image courtesy of @ChiFirstLady [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]City Year hosted its annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Deneen School of Excellence this year. The event turned a day off into a "day on" for City Year volunteers, who worked with Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Governor JB Pritzker (as well as volunteers from Salesforce) to come together to help revitalize the school. AUSL is...

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Annual Fourth Grade Experience Brings Students to the Auditorium Theater

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="7323" img_size="large" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Fourth graders from Dulles, Fuller, Harvard, Marquette, Morton, Piccolo, Dvorak and Tarkington Schools of Excellence were treated to a performance of Too Hot to Handel at the Auditorium Theater in downtown Chicago. The performance combined the classical composer Handel's original work with blues and jazz, in order to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of "a beloved community" that comes together to celebrate diversity under one roof....

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Orr Academy High Student Receives Prestigious Posse Foundation Scholarship

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="7316" img_size="full" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We're incredibly proud of Orr Academy High School scholar and aspiring law student Javionna for receiving the 2019 Posse Foundation Scholarship, a prestigious full-tuition scholarship! She will be attending Agnes Scott College with full tuition covered by the scholarship. Congratulations, Javionna![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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