WCEC awards 5 minigrants to schools and organizations seeking systemic change

April 02, 2012

WCEC is proud to announce the recipients of the colloquium's minigrant winners, who received as much as $10,000 for key projects aimed at systemic reform based on lessons learned from the series.

The goal of WCEC has been to spur action, and not serve simply as a series of talks. The minigrants are one step toward that goal.

The winners are:

Associated Colleges of Illinois
Understanding & Integrating the Common Core Standards Through Collaborative Professional Development

Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) 
Lessons Learned from Chicago Public School's Planning Process to Implement Systemic Social & Emotional Learning for all Students

Elgin School District U-46
Transition to a Multi-tiered System of Supports -- Looking at Assessments

Illinois P20 Council
Promoting a Holistic, Birth to 20 Dialogue Among Stakeholders on Teacher and Leader Quality, Data, Assessment, and Accountability, School, College, and Career Readiness, and Finance and Infrastructure

Fox Valley Montessori School
Bringing the Montessori STEM Curriculum to Illinois