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Simeon 2010
Office of High School Programs - High School Demonstration Project
The Chicago Public Schools High School Demonstration Project grew out of the system’s need to understand what happens when systemic curricula, student development, and leadership initiatives can be implemented in 12 neighborhood high schools. The schools are representative of the district’s diversity with respect to the linguistic, cultural, and achievement needs of our students. Working with leadership teams of teachers and administrators, the Demonstration Project seeks to improve student achievement by addressing three large goal areas: Teaching and Learning, Student Development, and Leading Change.
The Demonstration Project is a shared leadership model within the school, a model in which teacher leaders take on the task developing, initiating and implementing programs that will improve a school within three large goal areas. This is a “ground up” approach, where teachers are given the opportunity to develop the programs and initiative that will improve the school and move the school forward, instead of initiatives and programs being developed by the Administration and given to the teachers to implement. To this point, Simeon has been one of the most successful of all twelve Demonstration Project schools in terms of setting goals, developing a process, and implementing ways to achieve our goals. This success is a result in large part to the collaboration effort that began during the inception of the Project in 2003 and has continued into this school year.
