Community – our students, our classrooms, our families, our schools – community is at the heart of everything we do at Distinctive Schools. In the spirit of our core values of c...
Check out this amazing blog from CEO Scott Frauenheim and Senior Innovation Partner, Colleen Padgett!
Distinctive Schools and LEAP Innovations want to bring personalized le...
Unleashing the Creative Genius: Exploring the Wonders of the STEAM Lab at CICS Prairie
As you enter CICS Prairie, there are a series of classrooms along a long, narrow ha...
Distinctive News | Read More This year we are deeply focused on providing more for our students – from our Community Hub model, to refreshing our innovative academic model ...
Distinctive Schools Chief Talent Officer, Sami Baugh , was featured in the February issue of The Compass: Direction for HR Leaders in Education from the American Association ...
Introducing... LEAP Innovations with Distinctive Schools
Distinctive Schools was designed to INNOVATE – to bring a new vision for K-12 education, and unleash the incredible...
Celebrating School Social Workers
Happy School Social Work Week ! Mental health and wellness is a core priority at Distinctive Schools, and we are excited to celebrate our...
“Art In Motion is one of the greatest things I have ever been able to be a part of. It’s a school less than two miles from where I grew up. It's geared to bring academics but also...
March is Women's History Month, a month to study, observe, and celebrate the vital role women play in American life and history. We will continue to encourage girls and young wome...
Art in Motion Creative Arts School (AIM) is proud to announce Black History Month artistic celebrations! Tenth graders Yvette Armour and Amira Pope and ninth grader Alexis Pulido ...
National School Counseling Week is February 7-11th. We thank our school counselors for their contributions to our students and school communities. School counselors help students ...
DCP Harper Woods celebrated kindness with a fun spirit week! Here are students from Mrs. Dixon & Mrs. Cassel’s Kindergarten classes showing off their outfits for "Tied to Kindness...
We Are Distinctive.
On this day in 2011, January 26, Distinctive Schools was officially founded! In celebration of the past twelve years , we are excited to launch The...
Happy Lunar New Year!
Lunar New Year is a fifteen-day celebration marking the arrival of spring and the beginning of a new year on the lunisolar calendar, determined by both...
Thank you, CICS for this amazing feature! Meet CICS Bucktown Paraprofessional and parent, Cibelen Smiguel!
As a parent, Cibelen has enjoyed being a part of the Bucktown comm...
It’s National Thank You Month! Thank You Month is an opportunity to spread kindness by thanking all the people who’ve helped us along the way.
To kick off Thank You Month, we w...
Happy 2023, Distinctive Schools! We look forward to a successful year. This year, we encourage you to show self-compassion as you think of your New Year’s Resolutions. When we sho...
As we approach the close of the year and reflect on 2022, we have so much to be thankful for – and even more to look forward to in the New Year! We are embarking on our most ambit...
Trinity, an 11th grade student and her mom LaTanya were able to tour the expansion at Art In Motion! Check out the space and see all that is in progress! We are on track to occupy...
The Illinois Network of Charter Schools announced that Lindy Mandel, middle school teacher and instructional coach at Chicago International Charter School Irving Park, a Distincti...