Erin Roche

Strategic Planning & Governance, Curriculum, Assessment, Instruction, & Professional Development, Fundraising, Budget, and Human Resources, Interaction with Parents, Community, and Student Culture. Increased percent of students meeting or exceeding state standards 13 points in 3 years, twice set record of school percent of student meeting or exceeding state standards (2010, 2011), 2010 Winner of the Academic Improvement Award of the Illinois Honor Schools.

Curriculum, Assessment, Instruction, & Professional Development, Fundraising, Budget, and Human Resources

Curriculum, Assessment, Instruction, & Professional Development, Budget, and Human Resources

Curriculum, Assessment, Instruction, & Professional Development, Budget and Human Resources

Taught 7th and 8th grade Language Arts through Jr. Great Books curriculum. Won Association of Illinois Middle School (AIMS) and Chicago Foundation for Education (CFE) grants to design Mentorship and Art program with art teacher to motivate struggling middle-school and 2nd grade readers. Students read over 150 books and painted bathroom stalls according to 2nd grade science themes. Won National Foundation for the Improvement of Education (NFIE) grant to co-create chess curricular unit with math teacher.

Co-authored proposal to CPS to found Telpochcalli Community Arts School. Taught 7th and 8th grade Language Arts and Math in bilingual (Spanish) classroom. Won Fulbright Summer Scholarship to Mexico. Improved ethnic relations through mural and flowerbox projects with Manley High School (funded by Teaching Tolerance and Oppenheimer grants). Won grants to build classroom library to over 1,000 books in Spanish and English.

In Honduras, Central America, co-developed with rural primary education teachers didactic activities and concrete curricular materials for the district’s newly created Pedagogic Resource Center. Coached girls basketball team.