Steve Zemelman, Director of School Innovation & Planning
Steve Zemelman is a long-time school reform expert who has guided the start-up of a number of Chicago small schools, including Best Practice High School and the four South Shore High School small schools.
Steve's main expertise is in the area of literacy curriculum. With several partners he has written numerous books on education, including Subjects Matter: Every Teacher’s Guide to Content Area Reading, Best Practice: Today’s Standards for Teaching and Learning in America’s Schools, Rethinking High School, History Comes Home: Family Stories Across the Curriculum, and A Community of Writers: Teaching Composition in the Junior and Senior High School.
For eight and one-half years Steve directed the Center for City Schools at National-Louis University. He presently works to build long-term sustainability of innovative schools in Chicago.
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