A Principal’s Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 673 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-97
Author(s):  
Tim Bouman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young People ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Academic Skills ◽  
Successful Completion ◽  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
College Prep ◽  
Personal Resilience

Based on my experiences as a teacher, administrator, and now principal of North Lawndale College Prep Charter School, this article describes how our school nurtures students and prepares them to succeed not only in high school but also in college, despite the challenges that they face as young people in the inner city. Located on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, the mission of North Lawndale is clear: “To prepare young people from under-resourced communities for graduation from high school with the academic skills and personal resilience necessary for successful completion of college.”

The Fight: Discipline and Race in an Inner-City Public Charter High School

2017 ◽  
Vol 673 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-168
Author(s):  
Vani S. Kulkarni
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Charter School ◽  
School Discipline ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Urban Neighborhoods ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Disciplinary Practices ◽  
City Schools

What are the disciplinary practices in which inner-city schools engage? How is order maintained or restored? Drawing on a three-year ethnographic study of a public charter school in Philadelphia, this study demonstrates the significance of understanding school discipline through a cultural lens. Beginning with a case study of a fight in the cafeteria, I describe how teachers, administrators, and students made sense of the school’s disciplinary ethos and how the disciplinary gaze that pervaded the school put invisible pressure on staff and students. Teachers and administrators in charge of discipline, who were overwhelmingly white, made implicit racial appeals regarding what practices were the most effective and fair to students who were overwhelmingly black and from single-parent, economically precarious households in urban neighborhoods.

Vasa Pelagić – Anatoly on the West

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Nenad Zivanovic ◽  
Petar D. Pavlovic ◽  
Kristina M. Pantelic Babic
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Young People ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Physical Development ◽  
The West ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Literature History ◽  
Significant Attention

SummarySerbian nation, especially from the time it “opened its orthodox eyes”, had famous people who wrote out its history. One of them, who along with others embed his whole life in prosperity of Serbian people, was Vasa Pelagić.Born in troubled times of 19th century, he upgraded his high school and seminary knowledge abroad. But, the same as all those before and after him, he came back to Serbian nation, and he shared all of his gained knowledge with his people. In Moscow, where he spent two years, he attended lectures from: Russian literature, history, medicine and political economy. All this he implemented in his (not only) written work.Educator, humanist, visionary, writer, and with one word – man who feels the pain of all Serbian wounds, Vasa Pelagić addressed significant attention also to our profession. With his work and care for proper development of young people (and by that not only physical development), he set the basis for its further growth. As equally useful he recommended both natural national gymnastics (work in garden, field), as also artificial gymnastics (different kind of physical exercise), and always asserted that gymnastics must be first among school subjects.His ideas, which we can preceive primarily in theories of biocentrism and ethnocentrism, process a kind of his theoanthropocentric signet. By this signet he highlighted the fact that every human is a personality – one, unique and unrepeatable.

scholarly journals Teaching High School Cultural Studies in the Age of Trump

2018 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
DJ Cashmere
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
African American ◽  
Charter Schools ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Assistant Principal ◽  
West Side ◽  
College Prep ◽  
Literacy Class ◽  
11Th Grade

In the fall of 2016, I began my third year teaching Cultural Studies Seminar at Chicago Bulls College Prep (CBCP), where I’d been working as a teacher since 2010. CBCP is a campus of the Noble Network of Charter Schools and is located on Chicago’s Near West Side. The school serves a population of students that is roughly 2/3 Latino and 1/3 African American, and about 90% of CBCP’s students receive free or reduced-price lunch. Every year, 100% of seniors are accepted to college. I had first devised the course in the fall of 2014, when my principal and assistant principal gave me permission to re-focus the 11th-grade literacy class I was teaching. I wanted to specifically study racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism in America, with an eye toward how those systems operate and how they can be—and have been—resisted. We put our heads together and came up with the name “Cultural Studies Seminar.” The essay describes teaching the course during the semester of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

Death and rebirth in Chicago: the Du Sable High School Urban Ecology Sanctuary

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Alt
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young People ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Urban Ecology ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Social Disruption ◽  
Sense Of Purpose ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Healing Gardens

Healing gardens have been widely used in healthcare settings, but rarely to heal the psychological illnesses of youth in inner-city neighbourhoods who have lost friends and family to violent deaths. The Urban Ecology Sanctuary in a courtyard of Du Sable High School in Chicago serves as a model of what such a garden might be like, providing places in which young people can reflect upon their loss, regain a sense of purpose, and reconnect to the natural world. This Sanctuary shows how architecture and landscape architecture can buffer the worst effects of social disruption.

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