Principal Strategy: Planning for Homeless Students

At Chicago’s Morton Elementary School, 30 percent of students are classified as homeless, living in shelters, in shared housing or without a roof over their head, all transient living situations that create challenges to regular student attendance.  Peggy...

Principals Drive Teacher Quality

By Steve Tozer Director, Center for Urban Education Leadership Since the national education reform report “A Nation at Risk” was written in 1983, quality of teachers and teacher education has recurrently captured of policy makers and education reformers. ...

Principal Builds College Access for Low-Income Teens

By Rob Schroeder Darryl Warr’s high school years are a model of the stereotypes of teen life on the south side of Chicago.  By the age of 17, Warr was on the verge of becoming a walking, talking statistic.  Failing grades?  Check.  Nearly kicked out of school? ...