G. Record of Support in Urban Districts
- Curriculum Structure & Emphasis
- Overview
- Support for Teachers
- Technology & Materials
- Earth & Environmental Science in Inquiry to Build Content
- Samples of Student Work
- Teacher Prespectives
- Record of Support in Urban Districts
This IDS is led by university faculty at both LUC and UIC who have a long history of working with CPS teachers and students in schools and classrooms, including through:
- professional development around science curricula in the SEPUP program that provides ongoing training and support for over 200 teachers from almost 100 schools;
- high school inquiry projects that support 25 teachers in approximately 15 schools;
- NSF and Department of Education funded projects that support over 50 teachers from 20 schools;
- an NSF funded program to provide forty CPS teachers in the natural science and mathematics with UIC graduate students to assist them in their classroom over one school year;
- ongoing coaching of teachers implementing reform curricula;
- direct involvement on selection committees for various CPS science materials;
- classroom assessment and program evaluation for CPS math and science, and;
- an ISBE grant funded program for 24 CPS teachers to achieve endorsement in physics.