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Elev8 Success Stories
Teaser: Brendan Aleman, an Elev8 student at Ames Middle School, participates in the Ames Peace and Leadership Council (PLC), to tackle issues in their school and community, learn leadership and team-building skills, and serve as advocates for students and their school.
Teaser: About 80 students at Ames Middle School in Logan Square participated in a student-led peace assembly yesterday afternoon in order to promote ways to diffuse violence and empathize with others who may have stressors in their lives that affect how they behave.
Teaser:
The
U.S. Department of Education and the Corporation for National and Community
Service have recognized Elev8
Baltimore and Elev8 Chicago as model school-community partnerships, as part of the
Together for Tomorrow School Improvement Challenge.
Teaser: Elev8 Baltimore's annual review, "Changing the Odds for Children, Youth
and Families in East Baltimore," presents an overview of programming in the
2010-2011 school year, as well as profiles of individual students and families
whose lives have been impacted by Elev8.
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This
summer, as part of an internship spearheaded by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, five
interns drawn from Coliseum College Prep, an Elev8 school, explored their
career ambitions in innovative and exciting ways.
Teaser: Drawing on its evaluation of Elev8 Chicago, Chapin Hall examines the efficacy of different parent engagement strategies and makes recommendations about how middle schools can effectively involve parents in their children’s education.
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Linda Taylor, a student from Perspectives Middle Academy, won first place for middle and elementary students in the IL Maternal & Child Health Coalition's recent school health essay contest.
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School-based health centers are an essential part of Elev8's integrated, full-service community school model. Across Baltimore, Chicago, Oakland and New Mexico, Elev8's health centers are helping families access much needed medical care, including assistance with obtaining insurance coverage.
Teaser: Meet Deanita, an Oakland parent who fought to brings school-based healthcare to her children's school."
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Elev8 Chicago has begun interviewing graduates to explore how their Elev8 experiences in middle school have impacted their high school careers. Meet Vanessa Perez, who says that Elev8 taught her to try new things- "You never know what you're missing"; Brianna Reed, who credits Elev8 with helping her develop "leadership qualities"; and Richlyn Whittaker, who grew into "a peacemaker... and national youth advocate," with Elev8's support.
Teaser: Elev8 Oakland celebrated its third annual Student Award Dinner Ceremony in May at the Mills College Campus. The event was held for over 300 students who successfully completed the required work in the Extended Academic Mentoring Program.
Teaser: In June 2010, Reavis Elementary in Bronzeville bid farewell to its 8th-grade graduates. More than a year later, most are still there-mentoring younger students, painting murals or just dropping by to help out.
Teaser: On April 27, 2011, Elev8 students from Gadsden Middle School attended the school's first annual College Awareness Fair. In all, 800 students and their parents attended the event. The fair gave both students and parents initial contact with representatives of different colleges, let them get a broad feel for the programs they offer, and showed them what it takes to be admitted to college. The result: Students and parents learned that college is in fact within the students' reach.
Teaser: Elev8 New Mexico was honored this summer with the Rookie of the Year Award from MicroSociety, a leading national nonprofit after-school organization, at its 18th Annual National Conference for Real World Learning.
Teaser: A computer class at the Orozco Community Academy has quickly connected multiple generations of the Pilsen neighborhood in Chicago.
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 The Reavis robotics team brought home the "teamwork" award in the Chicago South regional tournament of Illinois’ First LEGO League. The award has special meaning at Reavis, where Elev8 programs have been teaching team building and related skills for two years. >>
Teaser: Elev8 Chicago's 2009 accomplishments were many. All five schools —
Ames, Marquette, Orozco, Reavis and Perspectives – successfully
followed the Elev8 recipe to help students and families grow. They
opened health centers, developed engaging summer and extended-day
programs, and enticed parents into their schools with classes,
workshops and social events.
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In a collaboration with Elev8 partners Creative Alliance and Kariz Kids, students at Tench Tilghman middle school in Baltimore produced their very own CD this fall. Students learned how to create original instrumentals, format and structure songs, operate recording software, as well as the business side of the music industry. >>
Teaser:  Students from the Native American Community Academy, Grant Middle
School and Wilson Middle School worked with their teachers, families,
providers and Elev8 staff to produce Food in Focus, a photography exhibit that appeared in the Rotunda of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque in December 2009. The
show offers a revealing look at how youth view themselves and their cultural identity through what they eat, how the food is prepared, and how this creates a close relationship within their families and communities. >>
Teaser: Some of Elev8’s after-school offerings bring classroom subjects to life. For example, Sisters4Science gives girls the chance to meet women in science-oriented careers. On one Tuesday in November, nine young women from Perspectives sat down and talked with Gladys Nash, a registered nurse and case manager of high-risk obstetrics for the University of Chicago Hospitals.
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In its first three months, Marquette Elementary School’s new health center attracted twice as many clients as expected.
Parents love it,” said Meredith Casey, the nurse practitioner at the
center, which is run by Access Community Health Network. “I think a lot
of people are switching over here because they like the care that
they’ve gotten, and they like the convenience.”
Teaser: Basketball at Wilson Middle School in Albuquerque, NM, is popular, but last year the team was forced to forfeit a number of games because too many of Wilson’s athletes had low grade-point averages.
Teaser: Elev8 Chicago is becoming fully rooted in all five of its middle schools with the opening of on-site community health centers.
Teaser: On April 18, 2009, Elev8 New Mexico students gave an "off the hook" performance of rap and Hip Hop dance as part of the Soul Verse Open Stage at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces, NM.
Teaser: Students at Ames Middle School in Chicago received important lessons in how to cool tensions and warm relationships as part of Elev8 Chicago's summer learning programs.
Teaser: Elev8 New Mexico provided a much needed and timely support for families through its financial literacy program.
Teaser: When a teacher at Gadsden Middle School, in New Mexico, noticed that Marcos, a 7th grade student, had been suffering from headaches and anxiety and his grades were dropping, the teacher sent him to the school's new Elev8 health center.
Teaser: On a rainy spring evening at Reavis Elementary in Kenwood, the hallways were lit and bustling. Three seventh-grade girls in cheerleading outfits leapt and waved their pom-poms, shouting, “Hi, welcome to the showcase!”
Teaser: As part of the growing relationship between the Field Museum of Natural History and the Elev8 program, nine parent mentors from Marquette Elementary School in Chicago Lawn recently participated in a special tour of the museum.
Teaser: It’s not as if the 7th-graders at Perspectives-Calumet Middle School are strangers to street violence. But still, the man in front of their class a few weeks ago grabbed their attention in a way their teachers often don’t.
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