CICS Bucktown’s emphasis on social-emotional learning was placed in the national spotlight when NBC’s TODAY Show visited the Summit Learning partner school in Chicago and showed how prioritizing student-teacher relationships helps the school thrive.
Chrysantha Norwood, a 6th-grade teacher at Distinctive College Prep-Harper Woods in Harper Woods, Mich., uses books written by African-American authors to teach her students about the past and inspire them about their future.
Scott Frauenheim and Amy Vracar of Distinctive Schools rolled out Summit Learning to seven public charter schools at once. Learn how they pulled it off with success.
