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Ashley Doucette
Jessica Johnson
Eileen Rogers
Rebecca Shaw
http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Roseland-Chicago/2950/
The article in the link below communicates one residents campaign to change, beautify and restore the housing and real estate trends in the Roseland community.
http://www.chicagoreporter.com/news/2011/11 /razing-hell
Demographic Data
Source: http://www.zillow.com/l ocal-info/ILChicago/Roselandpeople/r_275251/
Age Distribution
Median Income
http://www.city-data.com/neighborhood/Roseland-Chicago-IL.html
Crime Rates
Crime rates data for the past 3 months in the blocks surrounding Curtis.
http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Roseland-Chicago/2950/
Anthony S. Bryk;Penny Bender Sebring;Elaine Allensworth;Stuart Luppescu;John Q. Easton. Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago (Kindle Locations 1677-1678). Kindle Edition.
Public Service
At the firehouse behind the school....
The firehouse serves as a safe place for children. As teachers, it is also a resource for us if we encounter any problems.
School
From the back, 114th St...
Behind the school there are many empty stores and warehouses.
The school has a playground behind it by the parking lot. The community can use this playground and it provides activity for small children both in and out of school. The play space can be used for lessons outside as well. Though it is rarely utilized.
School: 115th St
The front of the school is off of a busy street. The building has two entrances: a middle school and an elementary school entrance
Students all walk to school or are dropped off by parents. Across the street is a large empty field that is filled with garbage and debris that several students walk through to get to school each morning.
Palmer Park
Palmer Park District offers various services to the residents of Roseland. There is a large playground with outdoor sprinklers, an awesome water park complete with slides and various other amenities. The employees stated that while there has been more than enough money allotted to offer a multitude of services, those services are not being utilized by the community residents so often, a lot of good resources go to waste.
This is an overwhelmingly sad but crystal clear depiction of what our students will have to face living in this community. Day after day, month after month, year after year, another young person loses their life to senseless violence. Ms. Diane, founder and operator of Kids Off The Block Club (KOB), erected a curbside memorial across from the center with the names and dates of all of the young people who have lost their lives. Each child gets a brick detailing their info. Ms. Diane has run out of space and, sadly, still has more to add. Ms. Diane and KOB were recently featured on the ABC Show Secret Millionaire. Steve Kaplan, the Secret Millionaire, spent time with, volunteered with, donated largely to, and still works with this organization, trying to make a difference in the Roseland
To view more about KOB and Ms. Diane's mission follow the links below to prezi videos:
Institutional Initiatives
GEAR UP-
GEAR UP is a program that exposes students to life beyond elementary school. QUOTE DARLING HAMMOND
Pre-K or Head Start-Linda Darling Hammond quote Geoffrey Ballet- A program for K-4 students where a Chicago
ballet company gives lessons to students after school
At the back of the donut shop, there were numerous community resources available for parents and families for education, health, and community news. These could be shared with the school as additional resources and community partnerships.
Continuation
Incorporate parent voice to make a direct connection between home and school and gain parental support of school procedures and policies
Smaller class sizes: Class sizes at Curtis hover around 25 and are supposed to increase to 35 next year. "Ferguson also found that class size, at a critical point of 18 students per teacher was a statistically significant determinant of student outcomes..."
Works Cited
Bryk, A. S., Sebring, P. B., & Allensworth, E. (2010).Organizing schools for improvement, lessons from chicago. University Of Chicago Press. City-data. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.city-data.com/ Darling-Hammond , L. (2010). The flat world and education. New York: Teachers College Press. Kids off the block.(Designer).(2003). Retrievedfrom http://kobchicago.org/ Trulia. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.trulia. com/about Wikipedia. (2012, July 7). Roseland, chicago. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Roseland,_Chicago