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               Craig Cleve              Chelsea Clementz

Denise Grosskopf               Eva Cooper              Jennifer Ford

Maureen Gamboney

Rogelio Rincon                       Stacy Medeiros

 

  

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.

                      

Christmas 2011

Click the picture below to watch its video

 

 

Science Fair Participants            Science Fair Presentations

   

NCLB Meeting and Workshop   12/08/2011

http://www.education.com/schoolfinder/us/illinois/chicago/columbia-explorers-elem-academy/

CEA Test Scores Review

Re-Max Hot Air Balloon at C.E.A.

http://www.pbcchicago.com/content/projects/project_detail.asp?pID=CPS-01

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

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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