Projects
Completed
- Belvidere Middle School Initiative - evaluation of the middle school concept, and its curricular interrelations between elementary foundations and high school expectations; in Belvidere Public School District 100, Belvidere, Illinois.
- Emergency Response Crisis Management Project, West Aurora School District #129- a school-based, community-oriented initiative to design and implement multi-hazard/mass-disaster prevention, response, and recovery plans at the individual school campus level; in Aurora, Illinois.
- Illinois Mathematics-Science Partnership Program - a federally-funded, statewide initiative to impact knowledge and skills in mathematics and science teachers in the state of Illinois through the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) in Springfield, Illinois.
- Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS),West Chicago School District #33 - a school-based, community-oriented initiative design to prepare schools within the district with crisis planning including mitigation and prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery information.
- Solution Thinking for Excellence - a joint project of the Rockford Public Schools and the Rockford Chapter of the Rotarian Society; designed to effectuate parallel motivational strategies in elementary school teachers and students located in Rockford, Illinois.
- Wright School Professional Development School Project - a school-community partnership with NIU to integrate curricular aspects at the elementary school level for student teacher practicum experience; in Malta, Illinois.
In-Progress
(Status of Current Projects)
(Status of Projects at Glance for Current Year)
- 21st Century Learning Communities, West Chicago School District #33 – A state program designed to offer students an array of services, programs, and activities before and after school that are designed to reinforce and complement the regular academic program of participating students located in West Chicago School District #33, West Chicago, Illinois.
- L.I.F.E. Support Inc. Academic Athletic Empowerment (AAEP) Mentoring Project - A project designed to help a group of high-risk adolescents in district 129 and 131 in East and West Aurora Illinois.
- Project SUCCESS, Northern Illinois University - a five-year NIU initiative to increase the number of educators who teach English-as-a-second-language (ESL) and/or bilingual students.
- Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS), Decatur District #61 - a school-based, community-oriented initiative design to prepare schools within the district with crisis planning including mitigation and prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery information.
- Safe School Healthy Students (SSHS), Escanaba Michigan - a federally funded "safe schools / healthy students" project located in Delta-Schoolcraft Intermediate District, Escanaba, Michigan.
- Safe School Healthy Students (SSHS), West Chicago District #33, IL - A federally funded "safe schools / healthy students" project located in West Chicago, IL.
- Smaller learning Communities (SLC), East Aurora District #131 - A district-wide strategy to redesign and strengthen the high school to develop and implement smaller learning communities to improve student academic achievement.
- Strategic Systems Analysis Project - a first-phase initiative to develop 'dashboard' benchmarks and milestones for school district monitoring and validation; located in School District #33, West Chicago, Illinois. West Chicago School District #33 - a federally-funded "safe schools / healthy students" project located in School District 33, West Chicago, Illinois.
Pending
(Status of Pending Projects)
- Safe School/ Healthy Students (SS/HS), East Aurora School District #131 and West Aurora School District #129 – a federally-funded "safe schools / healthy students" project located in School Districts 129 and 131, Aurora, Illinois.
- Safe School/ Healthy Students (SS/HS), Marquette-Alger Regional Educational Service Agency (MARESA) – a federally-funded "safe schools / healthy students" project located in School Districts Marquette-Alger Regional Educational Service Agency (MARESA), Marquette, Michigan.
- Safe School/ Healthy Students (SS/HS), Rockford School District #205 – a federally-funded "safe schools / healthy students" project located in School Districts 205, Rockford, Illinois.
- Safe School/ Healthy Students (SS/HS), Carpentersville School District #300 – a federally-funded "safe schools / healthy students" project located in School Districts 129 and 131, Carpentersville, Illinois.
- Cognition and Student Learning, REPS - NIU - a federally-funded research project which intends to identify, develop, and validate effective education programs, practices, policies, approaches for teaching mathematics at the high school level.
- Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS), Carpentersville School District #300 – a school-based, community-oriented initiative design to prepare schools within the district with crisis planning including mitigation and prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery information.
- Recovery Act Local Youth Mentoring Initiative - A project designed to preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery; to assist those most imparted by the recession that will provide long-term economic benefits located in Aurora, Illinois.
