Author: RCCA (RCCA )

Each year the Fine Arts Department presents a Black History Program involving students from the Beginning/Advanced Mixed Chorus, the Advanced Band, and General Music. These students showcase their talents as they tell the stories of significant African-American figures and cultural expressions that have impacted, shaped, and defined our country. Both historical and present day issues...

For Black History Month, RCCA’s Civics students were presented with primary documents, primary accounts, and video clips of African Americans during Jim Crow America. Some of the documents covered the Willie Lynch speech, Little Rock 9, and police reports on the assassination of Civil Rights activists. The students provided their insight as well as their...

Students in Mr. Roger Badesch’s CTE Broadcast Technology program are in the middle of producing a music video that exemplifies IB learner profiles. Students ‘blindly’ selected one of ten available songs that Badesch and TV producer Ms. Mildred Amador previously evaluated for IB learner profiles such as open-mindedness, risk-taking, caring, principled, and reflective. The song...

In celebration of Lincoln’s birthday and Presidents’ Day, the senior class at Roberto Clemente High School participated in “Civics Day” on Thursday, February 13th. The goal of this day is to remedy disturbing trends in the civic engagement of American teens. Nationwide data suggests a general decline in students’ civic skills and knowledge over the...

Welcome to JROTC, where we try to develop leaders for the future! We recently went through a program of self-discovery called “Winning Colors,” which helps the cadets discover their primary personality trait. For many of them this was a reality check, and they learned not only about themselves but also their peers – discovering how...

In an effort to better prepare our students for the PLAN, sophomore counselors and teachers organized and prepared lessons for a restructured school day focusing on the skills, testing strategies, and understandings required to be successful on the PLAN. The day kicked off with all of our sophomore students meeting in the cafeteria where they...

On Friday, the 10th grade team honored the hard work and academic success of our students during the quarterly awards assembly. Students accepted rewards and gold pins in multiple categories, including honor roll, perfect attendance, most improved in subject area, highest PLAN subject score and students demonstrating IB characteristics. During the assembly students had a...

On Saturday, February 8th, Felisha Rodriguez performed at Schurz High School as a member of the 2013-2014 All-City North Region Band. She auditioned and was selected this fall to participate with other CPS band students from the north west side of the city as a part of this selective group, which included weekly practices each...

On Tuesday February 4th, as part of Democracy Week, volunteers from the American Bar Association and the Voting Rights Project attended over 15 senior classes. Volunteers taught a lesson on the importance of voting that included a video about the history of voting and the disenfranchisement of people of color and women. Students participated in...

On February 5th, Chicago was hit with yet another snowstorm outside. Inside our building we had another type of storm, a storm of celebration of achievement. This past Wednesday the Junior Team held the Semester 1 Awards Ceremony where we recognized those who throughout the semester displayed the traits of an International Baccalaureate student. We...