After years of building culturally relevant lessons for English language learners in CPS schools, 2015 Dean's Merit Award winner Zayoni Torres is heading to South Africa to train future teachers.
School principal Kevin Gallick is building a high school devoted to exposing career options to students from predominantly low-income households in Chicago's post-industrial East Side neighborhood.
What happens when students form their own inclusive groups based on race or gender or learning ability? Alumna Yasmeen Elayyan shares her strategies to address student-caused school segregation.
When alumna Amani Ghusein asks her 4th graders to draw a picture of a scientist, she receives comic-like mad scientists. Her challenge: help her Latino students see themselves as Latino scientists.
Alumna Alexis Cullerton researched literacy access and needs of undocumented unaccompanied children detained in the United States and found a judicial system failing children.
The College's David Stovall says the school-to-prison pipeline is bolstered by school discipline policies that treat Black and Latino students as perpetrators incapable of solving problems.
Evelyn Gachuz thought math wasn't for her as a youngster. Her volunteer work with young Latinas encouraging their success in math earned her the UIC Chancellor's Student Service Award.
