“This program might be different than what most people associate with Hull House,” says Lorena Alfaro, coordinator of business development at the Uptown-based agency. In 1993 he enrolled in the Hull House business development program. There was so much I didn’t know.”Ĭlick here to join the Reader Membership Community. I pushed the shirts to a few stores and had some success, but that kind of fell out. “I was always a good artist, always had an eye for clothes. “I started with the idea of T-shirts,” he says. The idea of designing and marketing his own line of clothes came to him while he was commuting to work. But you’re doing everything except programming.'” My bosses kept telling me, ‘Alvin, this is great. It got a glowing write-up in Allstate’s in-house magazine. I set up a program where inner-city kids could come in to get training. I’m the kind of guy who wants to do things my way, and that’s just not the way it goes in corporate America, which is more conducive to the fall-in-line personality. “I wore the corporate outfit–Dockers pants and Polo shirts. But I needed the job so that’s where I was.”Ī day didn’t go by when he didn’t feel out of place. Believe me, I had no business in corporate America. “There I was, commuting every day to my job in corporate America. “It was the most conventional lifestyle you can imagine,” he says. Instead he graduated from Roosevelt University with a degree in computer science by 1989 he was working as a computer programmer for Allstate Insurance. But within a year of graduating from Prosser High School he was the married father of a baby boy, and he knew such dreams were unrealistic. He was then a west-side teenager harboring dreams of fame and fortune playing jazz saxophone. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & RecreationĮighteen years ago, a successful clothing line was the last thing Rogers would have foreseen for his future.Lesson 1, 2 or 3 - pupil will be in isolation until after lunch.Become a Reader member for as little as $5 a month.This will result in an after-school detention. A B3 will generate on-call, a session isolation followed by a phone call home from the teacher who requested the on-call.Vapes or similar will result in an exclusion.Mobile phone misuse is recorded as a B3.Prior to the film being shown, all pupils in the film will be added into the online spinning wheel and the winner will receive a £20 cinema voucher.Īt Scissett Middle school we run the following behaviour system:.(If pupils get 10 of more negative points a week, they will not be allowed to watch the film.)

They will be given a treat while watching the film. Pupils with the right amount of points will be able to watch a film at the end of each term.The class with the highest number of positive points in each year group will have a dress differently day on the last day of term.Head of Year will send a postcard each week to the pupil with the most positive points.These pupils will receive a gift from the lucky dip box in the Head of Years office for their efforts. These are the pupils who receive the most positive points during the week. Every form class will produce a pupil of the week.Star Pupil - 20 points (5 nominations a week).At Scissett Middle School, we have a number of rewards that benefit pupils.

Star pupil in class