City Council Meeting - July 24, 2019
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, In 2013, James G. Blaine Elementary School's faculty, student and community welcomed Ms. Angela Brito as a Teacher. She was then named Principal in January 2017; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Brito came to Blaine from Bethune School of Excellence where she provided coaching and mentoring for colleagues through observations, conferences, and co-teaching of lessons in the areas of literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies instruction before becoming Academic Director; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Brito thinks of herself as a lifelong learner, and brings decades of varied experience to her position as Principal at Blaine; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Brito is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin where she obtained her BA in Elementary Education and continued to enrich her teaching profession by obtaining a certification in Middle Childhood Generalist from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. She then went on to Concordia University Chicago where she obtained her Masters in Reading Education and National Louis University where she obtained her Education Specialist in Administration and Supervision; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Brito has two beautiful and wonderful children, Colin and Anna, with her amazing and supportive husband, Kevin; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Brito has always been intrigued by education and felt a calling to be a teacher. She began her teaching journey in Madison Wisconsin as a teacher at Emerson Elementary. Her passion for teaching was recognized and later moved to Brooklyn New York to work with Public School 10 and Brooklyn Kindergarten Society where she was instrumental in advancing teaching curriculum, instruction and engagement; and
WHEREAS, Fate would bring Ms. Brito to Chicago where she continued to teach and engage students, parents and administrators in the summer of 2008. Her Chicago teaching experience began at Village Leadership Academy and then at Bethune School of Excellence before coming to Blaine in...
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