Community of Peace Academy Transforms Its Approach to Literacy Instruction

This Minnesota charter school knew they needed to make a change to their school’s approach to literacy instruction.

UChicago Impact Hosts the First Session of the 5Essentials Leadership Collaborative Series

The Leadership Collaborative Series serves as a network for school improvement that helps schools tackle a common problem of practice through an improvement process.

Measuring School Quality and Student Success Under ESSA With the 5Essentials

The 5Essentials Survey is an easy to use and easy to implement tool that can help support states’ efforts to fulfill their new obligations under ESSA.

August 09, 2017

Strengthening Trust Among Adults at Pasteur Elementary

From 2010 to 2015, Louis Pasteur Elementary School (Pasteur), on Chicago's southwest side, had gone through three different principals.

McPherson Works to Improve Student-Teacher Relationships

In 2015, the 5Essentials data for James B McPherson Elementary School (McPherson) on Chicago’s North Side revealed a hard truth—trust between students and teachers was in need of rebuilding.

How a Chicago School Is Using Data to Improve School Climate

Education Week: Principal of National Teachers Academy shares his personal experience with the 5Essentials survey

April 03, 2017

Adopting School Climate Surveys Under ESSA: A Model From Chicago

Education Week: A look at how schools can incorporate school climate surveys in ESSA plans

April 03, 2017

We’ve Got to Look at More Than Just Test Scores When We Rate Schools

Op-Ed: UEI Director discusses the need to move beyond test scores in measuring school quality

The Chicago Public Education Fund: The Fund Opens Applications for 2017 Summer Design Program

UChicago Impact partners with The Chicago Public Education Fund on it's fifth Summer Design Program.

March 06, 2017