Chicago Youth Connection Charter Schools (YCCS)

The University of Oklahoma Center for Effective Schools (OU CES) will provide monthly on-site professional development for the teachers and administrators of four identified alternative high schools within the Youth Connection Charter Schools (YCCS) organization. These schools include Ada S. McKinley, Sullivan House, CYCI, and Jane Addams. The trainings will be a combination of collaborative group trainings at the YCCS administration offices as well as on-site trainings at the individual school sites. OU CES will provide a school-wide needs assessments to determine critical areas of need in order to provide on-site professional development at individual school sites. In addition, OU CES will analyze all test data, review records and reports, meet with individual school principals, observe classroom instruction, and provide Effective Schools' trainings for school improvement teams and school administrators.