Sybil Madison-Boyd
Course
- 47222 Promoting Social and Academic Development of Urban Children
Job experience
- Director of Education and Leadership, Chicago Quest Schools, Chicago International Charter School
- Director of Elementary School Partnerships and Co-Leader of the Academic and Social Support Initiative, USI Network, Urban Education Institute, University of Chicago
- Consultant, Chicago School Readiness Project, University of Chicago
- Research Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychiatry, Institute for Juvenile Research
- Training Faculty Associate, University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for Juvenile Research Pre-Doctoral Psychology Internship Program
Fields of Special Interest
- Development of Systemic Approaches to Integrating Academic and Social Support in Schools
- Evidence-based Decison Making in Student Support Team Processes
- School-Based Promotion of Healthy Development in Children and Adolescents
- Coaching for Educational Equity and Excellence
Publications or presentations
- "Public Schools: Issues of Access and Opportunity for Under-Resourced Children and Families", DePaul University Community Mental Health Center, March, 2008
- "Improving Instruction: Using Communities of Practice to Bring High Quality Teaching to Scale" American Educational Research Association, April, 2007 (with Julie Burnett)
- "Increasing our Relevance to Urban School Reform: Rethinking the Prevention Paradigm", Society for Community Research and Action Biennial Conference, June, 2005
Jelani McEwen
When Jelani McEwen begins his new job as Charter Support Manager of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools upon graduation from the School of Social Service Administration in June 2013, in some ways he will have come full circle.