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On Friday, September 21st, 2007 Jeanne
Nowaczewski from the Chicago Public School District and
David Myers, who is the Executive Director of the
Chicago-based youth program Teen Living, visited Bishop
Loughlin and LaSalle Hall to view our unique urban
boarding school model.
The four hour meeting with Bishop Loughlin’s Brother
Dennis and Ray Walker, and Barbara Welles-Iler from
ANCHOR, was an information sharing session during which
our guests toured the school’s campus and dormitory
while also having the opportunity to interview boarding
students Rene Pucilowski and Tito Gary.
The ANCHOR boarding program model employed at Loughlin
was designed by Ray Walker, Director of Residential Life
at Bishop Loughlin over the course of six months prior
to the opening of the LaSalle Hall dormitory. The model
is a hybrid of his experiences as a high school student
at Deerfield Academy and his prior service as a Program
Director working with youth. The strength-based model
encourages youth through a weekly points and levels
system and the use of juniors and seniors as Proctors
who help provide leadership for younger students.
Ms. Nowaczewski’s role within Chicago Public Schools is
to approve or deny proposals for all new public and
charter schools in Chicago and its suburbs. Recently,
she has been receiving charter proposals for urban
boarding schools, which resulted in her interest in the
ANCHOR model employed here at Bishop Loughlin as well as
other program models like SEED in Washington D.C., and
national programs like Boys Hope/Girls Hope. Mr. Myers’
program Teen Living is considering the option of opening
a boarding school in Chicago.
For more information on Mr. Myers’ program visit
the
Teen Living
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