Highlights

Selected Highlights 
from Advance Illinois

Advance Illinois is continually involved with important issues in education reform. We have selected four current issues as highlights.

1. Our SIG Progress Report examines the reforms unfolding in 10 Illinois schools that have received federal School Improvement Grants.
2. Our Making Teacher Evaluations Meaningful presentation provides an overview of our April 2012 conversation about Illinois’ emerging teacher evaluation systems with Charlotte Danielson and Sara Ray Stoelinga.
3. Our Educator Advisory Council allows especially talented educators to add their perspectives to ongoing reform efforts and policy initiatives.
4. Our State Report Card is the first full assessment of Illinois' educational performance from birth through higher education.
5. Our commissioning of the National Council on Teacher Quality's Illinois report represents a baseline effort to examine the design of Illinois' teacher preparation programs.
6. We recently hosted a day of Sharing Best Practices at two successful Chicago turnarounds, allowing teachers and administrators from around the state to soak up what these schools are doing well.
7. We have recently helped construct Illinois' first report for creating a statewide, research-based kindergarten assessment process - the Illinois Kindergarten Individual Development Survey.