Jefferson+Alternative+High+School

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=** Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative School ** = = = =** www.jefferson.cps.k12.il.us ** = = = = = =** Mr. Miner's Social Studies Wiki ** = ==** Arrow Center ** == = =

=** Our School Mission: ** = ==== Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative School (NBJ) provides high quality educational programming to meet the diverse educational and social/emotional needs of court-detained juveniles. We will continue to strive to balance and coordinate our educational focus with the goals and objectives of the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center (JTDC), Cook County Juvenile Court system and Chicago Public Schools ====


=**** Our School Vision: ** ** = ==== Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative School seeks to become an educational community of learners that blends research-based practices with the principles of effective interventions, to ultimately increase the competencies of and reduce the recidivism rate of court detained juveniles. ====


==== "Failure Is Not an Option" ==== ====<span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> The powerful new guide to creating successful and sustainable professional learning communities! Building on a foundation that identifies courageous school leadership and the professional learning community as the center of effective school reform, this powerful new book by Alan M. Blankstein offers six guiding principles for creating and sustaining high-performing schools: ====

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