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Comings & Goings: LSC candidates, Garcia, DuBoe April 17, 2012 By: Debra Williams More than 6,500 candidates are running for two-year terms on Chicago’s Local School Councils. The elections will be held on Wednesday, April 18 in elementary schools and Thursday, April 19 in high schools from 6.a.m. to 7 p.m. To find out who is running and where, click here. Read More \| (0) Comments	Comings & Goings: Fraynd, Dhupelia April 12, 2012 By: Debra Williams Donald Fraynd, Chief Officer for the CPS Office of School Improvement, has resigned to become CEO of a new start-up company involved in educational human capital. Fraynd was responsible for overseeing the district’s turnaround schools initiative. Aarti Dhupelia, director of CPS’ Career and Technical Education Department, has been named executive director of the school improvement office. Read More \| (1) Comments
Coming & Goings: CPS appointments, Malone March 30, 2012 By: Debra Williams Lachlan Tidmarsh is CPS’ new Chief Information Office. He will be responsible for overseeing the Office of Information and Technical Services. Previously, Tidmarsh was a vice president at Aon Corporation and responsible for managing Aon’s global initiatives and planning team. Read More \| (2) Comments	Comings & Goings: CASEL, Burnham Park Network March 22, 2012 By: Debra Williams Paul Goren has been appointed vice president for research and knowledge utilization at the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL). Previously, Goren served as a senior advisor to Chicago Public Schools and prior to that, was the director of the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. Goren has also worked for the Spencer and the MacArthur foundations. Read More \| (1) Comments
Comings & Goings February 07, 2012 By: Debra Williams We are pleased to announce that we are resurrecting Comings & Goings to help you keep up with colleagues in the city’s broad-based education community. We welcome your help. Send announcements and intelligence about job changes, honors and other interesting items to Community Editor Debra Williams. Read More \| (4) Comments	Comings and Goings: New Broad fellows, principals August 27, 2009 By: Catalyst Staff Seven new Broad Fellows will be working in Chicago schools through the Broad Residency program, which places executives from the private and civic sectors into two-year, top-level management positions in urban school districts around the country. Each of the residents has a master’s degree in business administration. Read More \| (1) Comments
Comings and Goings: At Voices, Polaris August 19, 2009 By: Catalyst Staff State Rep. Kathleen Ryg (D-Vernon Hills) has been named president of Voices for Illinois Children, replacing Jerry Stermer, who became Gov. Pat Quinn’s chief of staff earlier this year. Ryg, who has been a state legislator since 2003, will take over Sept. 1. Ryg also has experience in counseling and in the administration of community-based organizations. Gaylord Giesecke, who served as interim president, will return to her role as vice-president of Voices. ... Polaris Charter Academy founder Tracy Kwock has recently left her position as director of operations and finance for the school; she will serve as director of partnerships for the Polaris Board of Directors. Kwock, a Golden Apple winner, has been replaced by Carol Clavadetscher, previously director of financial planning and analysis for the PepsiCo Corp. Read More \| (0) Comments	Comings & Goings: At ACT Charter, CPS July 08, 2009 By: Catalyst Staff NEW CEO AT ACT The executive directors of the Academy of Communications and Technology (ACT) Charter School are stepping down. Founder Sarah Howard and Founding Teacher Karen Croteau will be replaced by Chief Executive Officer Darryl Cobb. Cobb previous served as chief learning officer for the KIPP Foundation and was a Broad Resident with KIPP. He holds a master’s degree in business administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Virginia. Read More \| (3) Comments
Comings & Goings: To Washington; at Young Women's Charter June 26, 2009 By: Catalyst Staff Two members of Chicago’s education community are heading to Washington, D.C., one of them to work in the Obama Administration. Tracy Dell’Angela, the senior manager of outreach and publications at the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago, will oversee outreach and communications strategy for the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education. John Easton, the former executive director and one of the founders of the Consortium, was recently confirmed by the Senate as the Institute’s new director. Eboni Howard, the director of the Herr Research Center for Children and Social Policy at the Erikson Institute, will join the American Institutes for Research as a principal early childhood specialist. Howard will oversee a variety of projects in areas such as school readiness, assessment and family literacy. ... Michelle Russell and Chandra Sledge have been named co-directors of Young Women’s Leadership Charter School of Chicago. Russell served as assistant director at the school from 2005 to 2008, and was a resident principal last year at the Social Justice High School on the Little Village--Lawndale Campus under the New Leaders for New Schools program. Sledge served as assistant director at the charter last year. Read More \| (0) Comments

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