The Rochelle Lee Teacher Award (RLTA) is a professional development program for Chicago Public School teachers. Awardees learn to develop balanced literacy practices and bring a love of reading into … Read More
Summer Volunteers Build Literacy Through Creativity
The WITS Early Childhood Summer Program (ECSP) is a five-week kindergarten readiness program. Each site is led by a CPS teacher and a WITS staff member and activates community volunteers. … Read More
Program Reflection: My First Year at WITS
As the program year dwindles down–thousands of pages of words were read by students and volunteers and countless laughs and inside jokes were shared throughout all WITS programs. I want … Read More
“I Am” Poems
In honor of World Poetry Day, my Lozano and Washington Irving Workplace Mentoring students wrote their own poems. They created their own “I Am” poems, which is an imaginative biographical … Read More
Diversity and Children’s Books: Celebrating Multicultural Children’s Book Day
Recently, at one of my Mid-Day Mentoring programs, a student came up to me after reading “You Should Meet Mae Jemison” by Laurie Calkhoven. She told me how excited she … Read More
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