Hello! I am writing from the Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL) to request a high resolution logo from The Woodlawn Children’s Promise Community. We value our relationship with WCPC and would like to feature our partnership in printed materials. If you could please provide me with a high resolution logo by tomorrow, Friday, October 19th, we would very much appreciate it.

Thank you so much for your time and I hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth King

Last night’s conversation with Earl Shorris was fantastic! Thank you
so much for putting this particular series of great conversations
together! On the train home, I wondered if perhaps the Chicago
Humanities Festival might be a good collaborator. As you may already
know, the Festival organizes a series of programs for Chicago high
school teachers called Classics in Context. The program involves
Festival staff working with a few partner humanities organizations
like the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Kaplan Humanities
Institute at Northwestern, the Center for Latin American Studies at U
of C, the De Paul Humanities center etc. to join forces and have
scholars from the centers (universities) present on a classic text
that relates to the Festival’s annual theme. Teachers read the books
in advance and come to the event to hear one or two university
scholars present on the text. In the afternoon, a curriculum
specialist has participated in an afternoon discussion about adapting
the text for the classroom. Teachers earn CPU credits for attending
these events and we also give them lunch. The conversation is always
a good one with both the university faculty and high school teachers
walking away with new insights into classic texts. It strikes me that
this format works really well as a model for university scholars and
high school teachers working together. We always have between 40 and
60 teachers at each event which is really good for a Saturday in
February. Anyway, I thought I would offer the model and the
suggestion of the Chicago Humanities Festival as a potential
collaborator or at least a source of information.

All the best,
Mai

Mai Vukcevich

Assistant Director
Center for Disciplinary Innovation &
Franke Institute for the Humanities

I attended the seminar yesterday by Earl Shorris, and left with a great amount of admiration for the Clemente Course and also inspiration to help bring it to a younger population in Chicago.

Today, I met a gentleman named Kevin Hough who is a teacher and service learning coordinator at Roberto Clemente Community Academy High School in west Chicago. Obviously, the name of the school first attracted me to speak with Mr. Hough, but as I learned more, I realized that the school could possibly be a very good fit for the Clemente Course. The school is very change-minded. They recently instituted a program called “culture of calm,” which Mr. Hough mentioned when I spoke with him about the “surround of force” that Earl Shorris described.

I spoke with Amy about this, and she suggested that we send Mr. Hough a copy of yesterday’s lecture and see if he may be available for the conference call on Monday. Would you mind sending me a copy, so that I can forward to Mr Hough?

Please be in touch if there is anything else I can help with. In the meantime, I will do some research on the turnaround schools I mentioned as well.

Cheers,
Priti