Principal Tawana Williams knows how people in the East Garfield Park community used to perceive Faraday Elementary School. “They felt that Faraday was the dumping school,” she said. “They thought, for a very long time, that this was a ‘bad’ school.” For many years, Faraday was on academic probation. The school struggled to deal with student fights and gang involvement.…
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Cather Elementary Dreams Big for Health and Academics
“If you have a healthy mind, you can learn,” says Cather Elementary Principal Wanda Carey. And a healthy mind usually comes with a healthy body. So, at Cather, Principal Carey has been working hard on both health and academics in her eight years of leading the school. You could argue that Cather’s work on building a school for healthy bodies…