School Girls Rock: Curriculum and Guide to Educational Achievement

By Dr. Andrea Green-Gibson

A Curriculum and Guide to Educational Achievement, School Girls Rock (SGR) is a humanitarian movement to encourage our nations female-youth to aspire improvement with persona and learning behaviors. Another purpose of the book is to empower educators to discover, implement, and foster meaningful yet, effective teaching methods for female students in Chicagos public elementary schools. The book provides instructors with information on implementing a SGR program; a specialized educational environment that focuses on infusing nutrition and etiquette in curricula. This book contains evidence-based information revealing the correlation with healthy eating habits and behavior, which affects ones personal value of livelihood.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483694689

Dr. Andrea Green-Gibson

Born and raised in Chicago, I have to admit that I am proud to be a product of the Chicago Public School (CPS) system. I would not be the woman I am today if not for the experiences – not all good – that came out of CPS. My name is Dr. Andrea Green-Gibson. I am a mother, a wife, a published author, and a leader in my community and the field of education. My goal is to help improve the quality of education for students who are not meeting Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and help educators infuse effective programs in curricula.

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Rev. date: 09/16/2013

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Contents

Introduction

Background of Public School System

The Root of the Problem

Author’s Experience

Effective Teaching

Effective Teacher Qualities

SGR: An All-Girl Youth Program

Philosophy

Learning Standards Framework for Etiquette & Nutrition

Vision for Etiquette Performance

Vision for Nutrition Performance

(Curriculum, Environment, & Education Alignment)

The Process

Recommendations

References

Dedication

I dedicate this book to all Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students and educators as well as all parents/guardians of students who attend CPS. A plethora of our nation’s youth particularly, female-youth and their parents/guardians and teachers work extremely hard to reach set goals and achieve academic success. Often times, ineffective circumstances affect the academic success rates producing undesirable outcomes for each group involved in the learning and schooling processes. This book is dedicated to the leaders and those whom wield the power to make meaningful yet, effective change to the field of education, particularly, public education for African-American, female students.

Introduction

I N THE 21 ST century, the majority of our nation’s youth are still performing below standards in many public schools. The notion is that, education in the key to success but it seems the terms education and schooling should be examined using several lenses particularly, in Chicago Public Schools (CPS). When speaking about education and schooling, both processes are directly related to culture, according to researchers who purported, "the deliberate transmission of culture is called education and The formal and more restrictive process of cultural transmission may be called schooling " (Pai & Adler, 2001). Nobles (1990) stated the following:

Technically, culture is the vast structure of behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, habits, beliefs, customs, language, rituals, ceremonies, and practices peculiar to a particular group of people which provides them with a general design for living and patterns for interpreting reality. The system of culture teaches the people to recognize phenomenon and to respect certain logical relations amongst phenomena. Culture gives meaning to reality. As such, culture has the power to compel behavior and the capacity to reinforce ideas and beliefs about human functioning, including issues of educational achievement and motivation. As such, culture is the invisible medium in which all human functioning occurs. It is important to note, in fact, that nothing human happens outside of culture. To think of culture as the