Community Schools Initiative
Our Vision
Clinton Elementary School is a part of the Chicago Public Schools Community Schools Initiative. Clinton’s vision is to enhance the academic and social emotional skills of all students, leading them to become positive contributors to a global society. As a Community School, we are proud to partner with a growing set of community organizations to provide educational, enrichment, and support services to students and families so that our children can be safe and stable in school, at home, and in the community.
Loyola Lead Partnership
As a Community School, we are proud to partner with Loyola University Chicago, to provide the Community Schools Initiative here at Clinton. Together we have a growing set of partnerships between our schools and community organizations to provide educational, enrichment and support services to students and families so that our children can be safe and stable in school, at home, and in the community.
Our Principals:
Whole child approach to education
Wrap around support and opportunities
Positive discipline practices, such as restotative justice and social emotional learning supports
Authentic parent and community engagement
Shared and collaboration inclusive school leadership
Racial Justice and Social Equity
Integreated Social Emotional Learning Principals
Build from community strengths, community wisdom and data/best practice evidence
CPS CSI report
To read more about the impact of Chicago Public Schools Community Schools Initiative read this report provided by the National Center for Communtiy Schools.
NCCS_Chicago_CaseStudy.pdf
To learn more about Clinton and the programs, initiatives, and work taking place follow Clinton School on social media.
Clinton School Social Media Request Process
Social Media requests are open to all community members! We encourage and welcome all interested to submit requests for any topics of interest. Please follow the below process to submit a request.
This process outlines the steps, time table, and content needed in order to complete a social media post on any or all of the three social media platforms (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook) used by Clinton School.
Social Media posting is managed by the Community Schools Coordinator and supervised by the School Principal. All school staff members, school teams, youth programs, adult/family group/ programs, community partners, ect are to complete this process:
Identify what the desired post entails (written and media needs) as well as the desired post date.
Four weeks prior to post date connect with the coordinator to ensure space on the publishing calendar
No more than three posts can be supported per a week
Post may be asked to coordinate, align, or merged with other things on the calendar to streamline engagement
Depending on content Principal approval may be needed at this point, the Coordinator will advise
*Please note this process does not promise the approval of a request
A post date will be set with the coordinator
HARD DEADLINE: Two weeks prior to the post date all written content and media are to be sent to the coordinator
Ensure that any names are removed from student work
Ensure that all photos of students have consent on file and send that along with the post
The coordinator is unable to support the creation of requested posts
The coordinator will submit all posts for the upcoming week to the Principal for final approval
Upon approval the coordinator will work with the identified translation staff to get the post from English into Spanish and Urdu
Post will be made between the hours of 8am-6pm on the designated post date
To contact the Community Schools Coordinator to start the request and approval process email Mykella Auld at mauld@cps.edu.