Columbia Explorers Academy
 

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Columbia Explorers Academy

4520 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60632

Principal:
Mr. Jose Barrera

Assistant Principal:
Ms. Eileen Considine

Assistant Principal:
Ms. Yvette Bazan

Phone:
(773) 535-4050

Fax:
(773) 535-4083

                                         Vision

The vision of Columbia Explorers Academy Elementary School is to provide a safe, nurturing environment where staff, parents and the community collaborate to embrace diversity and promote academic success in our journey to educate the whole child.

          Mission

Our mission is to become an exemplary school by modeling high academic standards through authentic experiences that support the application of skills for literacy, higher-order thinking, and living. We seek to provide understanding and respect for individual differences to enable all students to be successful members of society.

Click here for a Slide Show of Columbia Explorers Academy Art collection

Click on the teacher's name below to learn more about him/her.

Adriana Cardenas       Carrie Szabla               Craig Cleve               Chelsea Clementz Denise Grosskopf            Eva Verta                Jennifer Parise            Josefina  Delgado             Kate Ballauer                 Lisa Caputo                      Maureen Gamboney Rogelio Rincon            Stacy Medeiros          

Mrs. Delgado's newsletter (room 201)

Supply lists for 2009-2010 school year  

English: K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th

Spanish: K, 1st, 2nd, 4th 

Click here for an Art slide show from some of  our students.

Click here to see our Academic Improvement Award, given by the Illinois State Board of Education to Columbia Explorers Academy for exemplary gains in performance on the Illinois Learning Standards.

   

Click here to look at our school brochure and learn some facts about Columbia Explorers Academy

Attention Staff and School Community

If you have not visited and registered on CPSalumni.org, we encourage you to do so. We are creating a living history of the CPS schools and, as more people register, we are creating a vast network of resources that will benefit the entire CPS community.

                      

   Columbia Explorers Academy was recently named the Adler Planetarium's educational partner of the year! Click here to find out more about the partnership between C.E.A. and the Adler planetarium.

For the next week, a picture from the La Familia Event will be on Adler's
Picture of the Week web page. Columbia Explorers Academy school is featured (as are some of the students), you will enjoy seeing it. It is found at
http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/apow/ap2005.10.17.shtml

Two neighborhoods force the district to back down, and will have to absorb more students in the fall http://www.catalyst-chicago.org/news/index.php?item=1402&cat=23

Bring the 2004/2005 FREE Kids Fighting Chance School Tour, Sponsored by EarthLink, to Your School! http://www.kidsfightingchance.com/schooltour.cfm

Museum celebrates Day of the Dead through art
Exhibit combines Meso-American beliefs with Catholic rituals
http://www.ccchronicle.com/paper/citybeat.php?id=1790

100 Schools Receive Academic Recognition http://www.isbe.state.il.us/news/2004/june10_04.htm

Hands-on makes lessons engaging. Students at Columbia Explorers go from textbook learning to finding out the answers on their own By Elizabeth Duffrin   http://www.catalyst-chicago.org/arch/11-04/1104columbia.htm

The 13th Annual Alivio y Salud Run for Health was another great success. http://www.aliviomedicalcenter.org/outreach/run.php

 Click here for more news.

Contact Us
Columbia Explorers Academy
4520 S. Kedzie Chicago, IL 60600
Principal: Mr. Jose Barrera
Assistant Principal: Ms. Eileen Considine and Ms. Yvette Bazan
Phone:(773) 535-4050
Fax:(773) 535-4083

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