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GAGDC steps up to support the community hit hard by COVID-19
- Illinois State University News: Melanie Christion and Trudi Langendorf, Feb 2, 2021
Illinois State News—Proud to be a partner with GAGDC and want to lift up their support of their community throughout the pandemic.
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The Revolution of Young Artists As Leaders Continues To Be ROYAL
- Reprinted from The Citizen News, By Christopher Shuttlesworth, May 8, 2017
“Simeon’s poetry team, called Writers Never Die and 2014/15 Louder Than a Bomb Champions collaborated with John W. Cook Elementary School and created The Revolution of Young Artist as Leaders (ROYAL) poetry team [two years ago],” according to gagdc.org. ROYAL held a Spoken Word Slam at Simeon Career Academy on April 25, 2017, where ROYAL continued to display what happens when youth engage in activities that allow them to use their voices instead of negativity.
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Auburn Gresham gold standard for parent engagement
- Derris Cameron, Community and Civic Engagement Coordinator (GAGDC), Feb 13, 2017
“We believe that the best way to improve student prospects is to develop a set of holistic interventions that will provide a broad range of support to students and families, not simply within schools but across the community, using public-private partnerships, community members and institutions as the drivers of change..."
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Illinois State University's Chicago Teacher Education Pipeline Delivers Results For Auburn Gresham
- Carlos Nelson, Feb 8, 2017
Kenya Sherrill, another Illinois State University (ISU) graduate, just accepted a full position at Simeon Career Academy (High School), where she completed her student teaching work last fall.