Partner with Skyline
Skyline regularly seeks external creative partnerships to enrich our curriculum and provide students with engaging, diverse digital learning experiences. We welcome collaboration from organizations across industries and fields to contribute invaluable knowledge and resources, with an emphasis on local Chicago cultural institutions.
Ways to Get Involved
Join us in delivering powerful digital education resources. Propose a partnership opportunity by completing the CPS External Partnership Intake Screener.
Curriculum Sharing
Do you have existing digital lessons, multimedia, or other K-12 standards-aligned learning materials? Share your resources with us to integrate into our platform and broaden what students can learn.
Collaborative Design
Work directly with our curriculum designers to co-create original digital lessons, activities, simulations, and assessments from the ground up. Lend your specialized expertise to build immersive learning experiences.
Supplemental Resources
Enhance our coverage of specific subjects by providing supplemental materials such as videos, interactive graphics, reference databases, educational games, and more. Reinforce learning with your rich resources.
Virtual and In Person Field Trips
Engage students virtually using photos, 360° videos, teleconferencing with your personnel, and other digital visiting opportunities. Bring real-world relevance straight to the classroom. Or provide an in-person experience at a local institution.
Existing Partners
External partnerships enable Skyline to collaborate with renowned institutions in creating engaging and interactive digital learning experiences throughout the Skyline curriculum. Our proud partners include:
Skyline was built in partnership with over 300 CPS teachers who joined the district-wide Skyline Curriculum Collaborative between 2019 and 2021. To ensure the curriculum remains current and responsive to students, we are committed to annual revisions, improvements, and additions to the resources.
Members of the Curriculum Collaborative may be identified by this badge in their email signature.
The Skyline Curriculum Designer Team is excited to announce the launch of this year’s Curriculum Collaborative Steering Committee (CCSC). We believe the continuous improvement of Skyline Curriculum can only be accomplished in collaboration with the teachers and students it is intended to serve. In the past 3 years, CCSC teachers and students have contributed to the production of 6 comprehensive courses with 35 unique revisions based on prototypes this past year. In response to cohort feedback, here are key elements of our shared work:
- Ten 90 min sessions beginning Oct 24, 2023, from 4:30 - 6 p.m.
- New cohorts: Arts, IB Alignment, SLA/ALE
- Elevating student voice by way of targeted feedback + codesigning
- Reflection forms targeted and specific to content area’s prototypes (rather than Unit and Lesson reflection forms)
- $1,500 stipend disbursement aligned to the number of sessions and split equally across
- At least one classroom visit per teacher with options including:
- Observe a priority project prototype
- Student focus group/Student co-design session on that prototype
- Co-teaching with that prototype
We have included the MOU and Scope and Sequence (specific Arts, WL, IB to be shared with invites) for more details. We invite all CPS teachers to apply to join the SY 23-24 CCSC by completing this application by October 13, 2023.
For more on the latest Skyline updates check out the What’s New in Skyline playlists available in every course!