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Columbia College is a four-year, non-profit, liberal arts college which focuses on media, visual arts, and music. The college was founded in 1890 and was originally named the Columbia School of Oratory. The name was changed to the Columbia College of Expression in 1927. The co-founders were Mary A. Blood and Ida Morey Riley. Both...

Over the course of the semester, Roberto Clemente Community Academy, IB Diploma Program History students have been studying various movements, all with the goal of gaining freedoms or gaining independence. These movements include the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, the movement to end Apartheid in South Africa, and the independence movement in India....

What is the optimal quantity of a product to manufacture? Which cell phone plan offers the most data and minutes at the best price? Junior IB students at Roberto Clemente Community Academy will be answering these and other questions by modelling linear equations and systems of equations. Students will be working on creating data presentations...

In this Unit for Geometry, students at Roberto Clemente Community Academy are focusing on being IB Communicators by presenting new terminology, concepts, and examples of geometric transformations to their teachers and classmates. Transformations in geometry include translations, reflections, rotations, as well as dilations of shapes. Students are exploring the relationship between rigid motions and the...

As educators, we live for the moments when our students understand the complex key concepts, skills, and topics they have been focusing on and practicing throughout an International Baccalaureate unit of study. The moments when our freshman students say, “Ohhhh I get it now!” and “That’s amazing!” are priceless. As the new Physical Education/Health teacher...

The Roberto Clemente Community Academy Freshman IB MYP honors students and the junior Theory Of Knowledge students went on a field trip to see a film at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the Art Institute of Chicago. Students watched Do Not Resist, a documentary on the militarization of American police departments. The documentary taught...

Northern Illinois University first opened their doors in 1899 to train “college-educated teachers.” NIU is located in Dekalb, Illinois and is a public, four year university. NIU is home to over 20,000 students. Each year more than 10,000 prospective applicants apply and a little over 3,000 students are admitted to the university. The school offers...

The Roberto Clemente Community Academy College Algebra students finished their unit on quadratics by seeking out and modeling parabolas found in the real world. Throughout the unit, students engaged in lessons where they often discovered rules that govern quadratics’ behaviors. For example, one lesson tasked the class with finding the formula of both of the...

This week in Science, Roberto Clemente Community Academy students got a chance to interact with one of Physics’ most famous figures, Sir Isaac Newton. After exploring Newton’s Laws of Motion through interactive multimedia Padlets featuring animations, videos, and interactive simulations, students brought their learning to life through a series of mini-lab stations that relied on...