CBS 2's story on my attempt to entertain my students during COVID 19!
https://cbsloc.al/2yiqwzALilly, the Spotless Ladybug was written and illustrated by St. John de la Salle Catholic Academy Pre-K and Kindergarten classes!https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/06/07/lessons-from-a-ladybug-st-john-de-lasalle-catholic-academy-students-create-a-book-celebrating-differences/ |
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Rated in 2016 as Gold Circle of Quality in the State Of Illinois!
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My name is Denise King. I have taught for over 36 years and 33 years in Chicago Public Schools. I have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Early Childhood Education and a Master Degree in Curriculum and Instruction. I'm qualified to teach from birth to 9th Grade. I 'm considered as a "Highly Qualified" teacher by the State of Illinois. In 2016, I retired from full time teaching in CPS but became a city wide consultant for CPS’s Early Childhood Department. As a consultant, I went to schools all over the city of Chicago to assist teachers in their curriculum, to observe them and to make sure the class environment was safe and healthy for pre-school children. In 2018, I went back into the classroom for a year as a Prek teacher in the Archdiocese of Chicago. When the pandemic hit our world, I continued to teach virtually. In January of 2020, I was employed by National Louis University as an Education Field Coach. I helped college students who were going into the teaching field become better teacher.
Over my teaching career, I have been nominated several times for the Golden Apple and have won other teaching awards. In the Chicago Public Schools in 2010-11, my class scored in the top 17% of 700 Chicago's pre-kindergarten classrooms. I was rated as highly effective for supporting student growth. As an early childhood educator, I received a GOLD Circle of Quality by the State of Illinois. It “recognizes teachers and programs that meet or go beyond the highest quality goals and standards. I’ve also piloted the HATCH technology for the early childhood department for CPS.
My philosophy of education is based upon the respect for the homes where children come from and their parents as the primary educators of their children’s development. As an educator of early learners, I believe in partnering with the parents to understand the unique personalities of the children in the class. Through these unique personalities and different learning styles, my role is to provide opportunities that are developmentally age appropriate. Providing hands on creative experiences and shared interests that are age-appropriate, each child would be able to bring forth his/her own unique learning styles in a class setting while actively participating in engaging learning activities through intentional teaching. These intentional teaching practices would promote ongoing intellectual, physical and social emotional development for each and every early learner.
While teaching in the CPS, my class was featured on the CBS2's Early Morning Show and CBS2’s Chicago News. CBS2 reported on how I kept my students engaged during the pandemic. My prek students wrote, illustrated, and published the book. "Lilly, the Spotless Ladybug. CBS2's Anchor and Reporter, Suzanne LeMignot read the book to my students on Zoom and she reported about her time with us during the CBS2's newscast. The Chicago Sun Times did a story on our Inaugural Celebration when Barak Obama was elected president. Also, I was instrumental in bringing some of the cast members of "The Lion King" to my previous school. I started the first PAWS Chicago (Pets Are Worth Saving) in the Chicago Public Schools and received the “Initiative Award” for my efforts. My school was the first school in CPS to tour the PAWS Clinic. Over the years, I requested and received donations for school supplies through the Walter Payton Foundation and I’m a Donors Choose recipient.
In 2010, after seeing a news report about Rasul “Rocky” Clark, a high school student that was left a quadriplegic after playing in a football game, being denied health insurance because a cap that was imposed on health providers, my husband and I met him and his mother to see how we could help. Out of this meeting, the Friends of Rocky21 was started. I started the Friends of Rocky21 website, www.friendsofrocky21.com and received donations from all over the world to help Rocky with his care and to bring awareness to the health care of student athletes. Out of that awareness and petitioning the then Governor Quinn and other elected officials, on August 3, 2013 the Rasul “Rocky” Clark bill was signed into law. Rocky’s Law protects student athletes in school districts in the State of Illinois that suffer catastrophic injuries.
Sincerely,
Denise King
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All images, likeness, voice and name of teacher and head start students are protected and cannot be used without the consent of the teacher and Pre-K parents.
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Denise King
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All images, likeness, voice and name of teacher and head start students are protected and cannot be used without the consent of the teacher and Pre-K parents.
Copyright 2021
Denise King
All Rights Reserved