Meanwhile, the quality of our program keeps improving, because we re creating programs with the people they re for. My job is to help teachers feel more comfortable with science. The best way to do that is for them to help plan the curriculum. Progress is monitored and programs developed in monthly and bimonthly meetings of participants at every level school administration, museum administration, teachers, parents, librarians. But as the fifth year of the Annenberg Challenge draws to an end, so too do the programs.
Participants hope to sustain some through alternate funding.
But for a small nonprofit like Imagine Chicago, continuing to support the world of creative education it helped create will be next to impossible. Displays of children s work were in the hallways, on the lockers, hanging from the ceilings. There were displays of children s work everywhere. And the opportunities for teacher training and development will be missed as well. But we ll continue what we can.