LLC - Linking Learning Communities:
A New Teacher Leadership Project

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New Teacher Leaders and Faculty - Lake Forest College, August 2006

What is Linking Learning Communities?

Linking Learning Communities(LLC): A New Teacher Leadership Project is a project of the Associated Colleges of Illinois' Center for Success in High Need Schools.  LLC is a partnership between Lake Forest College and Waukegan, IL District #60 public schools designed to increase and retain the number of high quality teachers in Waukegan schools. Through instructional coaching specifically designed for the Waukegan teaching community, the project supports new teachers working in Waukegan schools and their decision making skills in the areas of resource use, learning environment and activity design, and student assessment. Lake Forest College professors and Waukegan school personnel serve as faculty for the project.

What are participants saying about LLC?

"I was always excited about teaching in Waukegan.  Now I am glad to know that there are other new teachers who feel the same way."

"I have grown!  Now I have more confidence to actually do the things I have so often thought about doing."

"I feel now, even more than before, how lucky I am to work with these kids.  "