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North Cook ALOP served 50 Lincoln students in first year; District 69 seeks expansion
Summary
North Cook Intermediate Service Center's Student Advocacy Alternative Learning Opportunities Program served 50 Lincoln Junior High students in 2024–25 and generated a waitlist; the district plans to continue ALOP at Lincoln and has requested expansion to Edison pending funding.
Director of Student Services Kristine Joaquin Schubert told the board that North Cook’s Student Advocacy ALOP at Lincoln Junior High served 50 students in its first year: 26 sixth-graders, 11 seventh-graders and 13 eighth-graders. Two Student Advocates — Jake Rohde and Marisa McPherson — provided individualized check-ins, attendance support and family outreach, and demand created a waitlist.
The district plans to continue the ALOP Student Advocacy program at Lincoln in 2025–26 and has requested that North Cook expand services to Edison for grades 4 and 5 when funding becomes available. Joaquin Schubert cited specific student outcomes such as increased participation in extracurriculars and family engagement that staff said were linked to the Advocates’ work.
