Baker Demonstration School

Correspondence, articles and addresses, manuscripts for curriculum records, and miscellaneous items.  Most records relating to the administration of the Demonstration School.

Records contain meeting minutes and agendas for Leadership Council, CPSA, Board of Trustees, and the Library Department. Also contains correspondence, photographic materials, outreach materials, manuals, course information, and Baker Demonstration School materials.

Photographs of students, faculty, building interior and exteriors of the Baker Demonstration School. Photos also depict classroom activities and the children's theater.

Programs, bulletins, advertisements and schedules for the Children's School of the National College of Education.  Describes the services and curriculum of the school, special school events and fund raising campaigns. Also includes original announcement of the opening of the demonstration school at the National Kindergarten and Elementary College's new Evanston campus in 1926.

Contains student assessment and evaluation materials, including examples of report cards from other schools in the United States and notes on evaluating students.

Editions of the curriculum record and philosophy of the Children's School of the National College of Education, later the Baker Demonstration School.

The Louise Farwell Davis Papers consist of an “abstract” of her Yale University Ph.D. Dissertation, a Curriculum Vitae written in April 1930, news clippings and photographs.

Louise Farwell Davis was on the Faculty of the National Kindergarten and Elementary College/National College of Education from 1928 until ca. 1956.

48 glass lantern slides depicting the Baker Demonstration School and teachers in training at that school from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1920's.

Possibly a presentation designed for students that might enroll in the teacher training program and parents of children that might attend the children's school. Includes images of school children, students of the National College of Education, student plays and student activities.

Photographs National-Louis University students, faculty alumni and staff involved in various activities related to the university as well as portraits of individuals.  Some of the activities include theater productions, alumni events, athletics, student academic and non-academic activities, college class work, faculty/staff business, commencement photographs, trustee events and special events for speakers or performances.