The consortium is based in Lombard and is composed of a network of Illinois school districts. <\/p>\n
If approved, the consortium would work again with school leaders, teachers, students and parents to determine what needs should be met and how the district can get to where it wants to be, according to Perry Soldwedel, the consortium’s core service director for strategic visioning. <\/p>\n
In the consortium’s initial findings, which were released in December, the district’s overcrowding was reported as the top concern and cited as a contributor to low morale, anxiety and greater stress among teachers, students and parents, especially at the East campus. <\/p>\n
The district’s schools are about 300 students above capacity and are on a staggered shift schedule to reduce hallway and classroom congestion. <\/p>\n
In addition to addressing the spatial issue, the district also needs to do a better job helping Hispanic students, special education students and economically disadvantaged students meet educational standards, the consortium found. <\/p>\n
In the consortium’s next step, a planning team of 25 to 45 people would form and study ways for the district to improve. <\/p>\n
The team would share this information with the rest of the school community, which could offer feedback that would be used in forming the goals, Soldwedel said. <\/p>\n
Having two-way communication is useful when forming a long-term plan, Soldwedel said. <\/p>\n
“Your greatest asset is the people,” he said. “You have a lot of talented people.” <\/p>\n
A new set of long-term goals would be brought to the school board for approval by May or June, Soldwedel said. <\/p>\n
Once the board approves the new set of goals, the consortium would then help the district create ways to reach the goals and then a grading system to measure how they are or are not working, he said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n Lockport Township High School District 205 is considering working with a not-for-profit educational group to develop long-term goals and ways to monitor progress toward reaching those goals. The district last year had the Consortium for Educational Change evaluate the district through a series of interviews with school officials, board members, teachers, students and parents. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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