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• Developing Curriculum in Essential Schools Sidebars:Widening the Conversation about Curriculum How the ATLAS Communities Structure a Curriculum Balancing Content with Thinking Goals: One Picture of Curriculum Teachers and Students Making... April 23, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Curriculum, Planning Backwards, Subject Integration, Essential Questions, Projects & Units
• Making the Good Essential School Better: The Essential Question of Rigor Sidebars:The Tuning Protocol: A Process for Reflection on Teacher and Student WorkIndicators of Classroom ThoughtfulnessWork in Progress: A School's 'Mastery Guidelines' When we put student work... April 29, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Heterogeneous Grouping, Peer Coaching, Looking At Student Work, Teacher Collaboration & Learning
• Scheduling the Essential School Sidebars:Example SchedulesInformation & Resources Imagine you have a week to accomplish a series of specific tasks, Bob McCarthy likes to say to the people who come to the scheduling... March 14, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Learning Structures, Scheduling
• Essential School Pathways: Connecting Across Grades Sidebars:What is a School Pathway?How Can Pathways Move Innovation Into the Mainstream?Elementary Schools Form Networks for ChangePathway Summer: Teachers Try Out New Practices Across the... April 29, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Learning Structures
• Benchmark Descriptors: Habits of Mind and Heart Habits of Mind and Heart The school should focus on helping young people learn to use their minds well. Habits of mind and heart are ways that a school can articulate the thinking and... October 05, 2009
• Steps in Planning Backwards: Early Lessons from the Schools A number of schools within the Coalition of Essential Schools have begun to explore a strategy of schoolkeeping called "planning backwards." It takes aim at the dailiness of schooling -- that... April 29, 2002 by Joe McDonald - Assessment, Planning Backwards
• Less Is More: The Secret of Being Essential Sidebars:Math Teachers Set New PrioritiesMathematics PortfoliosQuestions for Shaping School CurriculumAn Exhibition that Combines Performance with MemoryThe Art of remembering is the art of... April 23, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Instruction, Student-as-worker, Projects & Units
• What Makes for Powerful Learning? Students Tell Their Own Experiences What works best to engage, motivate, and challenge students to learn? In the midst of the national fervor to raise the quality of teaching and learning, educators or policymakers often forget to... June 19, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Instruction, Personalization, Student-as-worker, Cooperative Learning
• A Quiet Voice One afternoon years and years ago, when I taught at Watkinson School in Hartford, Connecticut, I showed my students slides of contemporary paintings. Jackson Pollacks, Piet Mondriens, Gustav Klimts... December 02, 2009 by Teri Schrader - Ted Sizer, Common Principles
• Making Room for Moral Questions in the Classroom Making Room for Moral Questions in the Classroom Commentary Published in Education Week, November 7, 2001 By Katherine Simon In one of my first years of high school teaching, I asked my students to... February 24, 2003 by Kathy Simon - Curriculum, Essential Questions
• sidebar: Giving the Kids the Keys: An Advisory Plan that Involves Students in Setting Standards Giving the Kids the Keys: An Advisory Plan that Involves Students in Setting Standard by Bill Johnson, National Re:Learning Faculty Just as a learner's permit allows students to develop the... March 14, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities
• Good Habits “Mr. —.” Before I looked up from my grade book, I recognized the voice. “Yes, Diana,” I replied. Diana had been in my advisory the previous year as a freshman. She and... December 02, 2009 by Sean Ottmer
• Ted, Expecting Us In a roomful of people, Ted Sizer always went right to the kids. I have seen it countless times: With merry eyes and delighted smile, he would adjust his tall frame so he could speak directly with... December 02, 2009 by Kathleen Cushman - Ted Sizer
• What Students Say About Essential Schools Sidebar:One Student's View: "This all sounded too simple" I am lost at Parkway South High School. The carpeted corridors make their own logical maze around and up and down the stairways, and... March 14, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Instruction, Small Learning Communities, Exhibitions, Personalization
• Equity Drives Essential Schools' Push for Adolescent Literacy Sidebars:A Student Looks Back on His Reading LifeAcademic Literacy: Awareness, Skills, ContentHelping Students Learn How Good Readers Approach a TextThe Arts As a Natural Partner to... May 10, 2002 - Curriculum, Subject Integration, Student-as-worker, Projects & Units