Gather Website for Chancellor's Academy 2009

2009 Chancellor's Academy Brochure (PDF)

Elementary Schedule 2009 (PDF)

Secondary Schedule 2009 (PDF)

View a video of the 2007 Chancellor's Academy:
"Building Bridges: Partnering to Create a Community of Learners"

 

The Chancellor's Academy, which started in 2005, is a concentrated, school-team orientated professional development program resulting from a partnership among the Champaign and Urbana public schools and the University of Illinois, with the College of Education acting as the host and the Center for Education in Small Urban Communities serving as the coordinating unit. The Academy's schedule provides time for local educators to focus on developing ways to consider, understand, and use the information presented in order to support teaching and learning in their respective buildings over the next school year. Therefore, the event includes significant time for teacher participants to collaborate and plan in teams organized by school.  These school teams are supported by both the Center's Teacher Collaborators and their respective building principal in the development of Instructional Collaboration Plans which tailor the information for application at each building across both local districts.

This project is partner directed as many of the Academy themes and daily topics are suggested by our community's schools. Keynote speakers and facilitators include several local, regional, and national experts. Participating schools are selected by each local district while teachers are selected via an invitation from their building's principal. Funding for the program comes from Chancellor Richard Herman, which pays for keynote speakers, facilitator time, and books, supplies, meals, and stipends for teacher participants. On average, the Academy engages approximately 80 local teachers and 40 administrators annually.

Via the Teacher Collaborator Project, the Center works to provide sustained support for Chancellor's Academy participants as they implement and re-explore teaching strategies during the academic year.  The Center staffs seven expert Teacher Collaborators who work in partnership with educators by modeling instruction, demonstrating lessons, side-by-side teaching, and co-planning instruction.  This classroom-based work is intended to sustain and deepen learning at the Chancellor’s Academy.  All Academy participants are encouraged to participate in the Teacher Collaborator Project.