REAVIS REBIRTH - LISC Chicago

7 COMMUNITY AND PARENT INVOLVEMENT
Successful schools as
community anchors
Successful implementation of this plan can make Reavis
Elementary School a true community resource. It can
become a place where students from the community want
to be from morning to evening and on weekends. It can
become a central point of communication for parents and
community members, and support the kind of balanced
housing and retail development envisioned in the Quad
Communities quality-of-life plan.
Communication and outreach
We believe that we must engage parents more effectively
to implement our improvement plans. Grade-level
meetings for parents will be held early in the school year
for 6 th , 7 th and 8 th graders and their families. The initial
focus will be on the Reavis Way — the school’s values,
expectations, and processes. Outreach will continue at
various times throughout the year, including report pick
up days, which will be expanded to include more
communication time among parents, students, teachers
and staff.
Quad Communities Development Corporation is committed
to partnering with Reavis to transform the school into a
local resource, and to create the community and parent
involvement that will sustain the school over time.
QCDC’s approach to education was developed in response
to the quality-of-life plan published in 2005. The goal is a
local network of high-performing neighborhood schools
that are open to local residents so that all families have
viable educational choices from preschool through high
school. QCDC has partnered with elementary schools to
expand and bring in new pre-school opportunities, and
has reached up the high school level to promote articulation,
cohort advancement and increased local opportunities.
The school transformation plan at Reavis, with sustained
involvement of QCDC and other neighborhood partners,
will produce cohorts of graduating eight graders prepared
for a rigorous local high school. QCDC will work to
leverage this progress into other local elementary schools
while simultaneously improving the two local high schools,
with a goal of creating a high-quality network of local
schools from preschool through high school.
Reavis Elementary School ISS Plan
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