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Announcements

ATTENTION: Community School Partners

FINAL invoices for the 07-08 school year are due by Friday, July 11. This deadline applies to reimbursements for all non-21st CCLC Community School Funds.

Invoicing instructions are available here!

 

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“It’s relationships, not programs, that change children. A great program simply creates the environment for healthy relationships to form between adults and children. Young people thrive when adults care about them on a one-to-one level, and when they also have a sense of belonging to a caring community.”---Bill Milliken, Founder and Vice Chairman of Communities in Schools and author of Tough Love and The Last Dropout.

MISSION
The mission of the Office of Extended Learning Opportunities (OELO) is to ensure that there is a diverse offering of high quality programs available to Chicago Public School students that serve to enrich the development of the whole child outside of the regular school day. The OELO, formerly the Office of After School and Community School Programs, was established in September 2001 and currently operates on a budget of over $80 million, serving almost 200,000 students in 548 elementary and high schools. External grants and partnerships also provide an additional $15 million in cash and in-kind resources.

OELO supports the following after school initiatives:

  • After-School All-Stars Chicago

  • After School Counts

  • Step Up to Third Grade

  • Community Schools Initiative

  • Enrichment Academies

  • Supplemental Educational Services

  • Tuition-Based After School

  • Keep Kids Learning

GOAL
To provide year-round programming outside of the regular school day that operates three to four hours a day, five to six days per week, 39 to 47 weeks per year.

DOWNLOADS

Office of Extended Learning Opportunities Guide to After-School Programs Fall 2007
(PDF File)

Winter 2008 Newsletter
(PDF File)  

"Guide to On-Site After-School  Enrichment Providers in Chicago"
(PDF File)

 

Community Schools

CSI Forms:

Community School Invoice Packet 07-08

 

Supplemental Education Services (SES)

SES Tutoring Programs

(PDF file)

An evaluation of the year three
in the Chicago Public Schools

February 2007

 

General Information: 

Office of Extended Learning Opportunities
125 S. Clark St., 10th Floor
Chicago, IL 60603, GSR #125
Phone: 773.553.3590
Fax: 773.553.3595

Michelle Appleton-Walker
Program Coordinator
SES
Tel: (773) 553-2611
mnappleton-walker@cps.k12.il.us

 

Vanessa Arellano
Community Schools Initiative
Tel: (773) 553-3576
varellano3@cps.k12.il.us
Sofia DeLira
Office Manager
Tel: (773) 553-3703
sdelira@cps.k12.il.us

 

Erick D. Dorris
Program Coordinator
SES
Tel: (773) 553-2639
eddorris@cps.k12.il.us
 
Beverly Janney
Sr. Administrative Assistant
SES
Tel: (773) 553-3730
bjanney@cps.k12.il.us
Briana Jones
AIM High Coordinator
SES 
Tel: (773) 553-1132
byjones@cps.k12.il.us

 

Curtis Jones
Sr. Research Analyst
Tel: (773) 553-2413
cjjones2@cps.k12.il.us

 

Wendy Leon
Program Coordinator
SES 
Tel: (773) 553-2397
wleon@cps.k12.il.us

 

Jocelyn Moralde
Program Coordinator
Community Schools Initiative
Tel: (773) 553-1447
jgmoralde@cps.k12.il.us

 

Carolina Ortega
Program Coordinator 
After School Counts
Tel: (773) 553-2220
cortega@cps.k12.il.us

Mandee Polonsky
Manager 
Enrichment After School
Tel: (773) 553-1499
mpolonsky@cps.k12.il.us
Adeline Ray
Senior Manager 
Community Schools Initiative
Tel: (773) 553-1766
aoray@cps.k12.il.us

 

Muang Saechao
Program Coordinator
Enrichment After School
Tel: (773) 553-3783
mssaechao@cps.k12.il.us
Nouha Shwehdi
Program Coordinator
Community Schools
Tel: (773) 553-2058
nashwehdi@cps.k12.il.us

 

Jeannette Solatka
Budget Manager
Tel: (773) 553-2876
ajsolatka@cps.k12.il.us
 
Erica Harris 
Officer
elharris@cps.k12.il.us


 
 

 

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CSI Evaluation

Three Years into Chicago’s Community Schools Initiative (CSI):
Progress, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Executive Summary

Full Text

by

Samuel P. Whalen Ph.D.

College of Education

University of Illinois at Chicago

June 2007

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