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“NCS helps schools network to learn from each other and better understand how other schools are approaching the work,” Ramos explains. “That has been a key lever to our success.” Coaching is also crucial to the experience, she says, with coaches helping principals use their own expertise to apply research to real-world situations. “They help schools realize we have our own answers — they won’t tell us what to do, but they will come in and support us.”

The Chicago nonprofit MAPSCorps has community impact times two: It trains youth to use the tools of science and technology to gather high-quality data about neighborhood assets — and then makes that data publicly available so it can help improve life for everyone.

As a Neighborhood Schools Program (NSP) teacher’s aide at Murray Language Academy in Hyde Park, Stephanie Wallen, AB’21, has grown to love teaching in an urban public school. And thanks to an NSP fellowship, she’s also had the chance to envision herself in other roles that drive educational change.

Leah Castleberry grew up on Chicago’s South Side, and in 2017, she earned a merit-based, full-tuition HBCU and HSI Bridge Scholarship through the University of Chicago Professional Education. The scholarship not only helped her discover her passion for investigating the ways that technology and social policy intersect, it inspired her to enroll in a master’s program at the Harris School of Public Policy, and gave her enough credits to complete her degree ahead of schedule.

A three-year program that prepares talented Chicago Public Schools students to apply for and succeed at selective colleges and universities, Collegiate Scholars Program built Khader’s confidence about navigating life on campus.

Cameron Cole started classes at the University of Southern California a lot less nervous than many of his fellow first-years. He chalks up his confidence to the fact that he’d already spent two qua...