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| Subject | CES e-ssential NEWS * * * Summer 2005 |
| From Email Address | news@essentialschools.org |
| Test Email Address | bbradshaw@essentialschools.org; gshears@essentialschools.org |
| Send as HTML? | no |
| Date Sent | 08/05/2005 |
| Message: | Your CONNECTION to the Coalition of Essential Schools Network
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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE
1. Fall Forum 2005
2. Affiliate with CES National
3. CES EssentialVisions DVD
4. Small Schools Project Update
5. CES Dissertation Scholars Program
6. In Common Call for Submissions
7. New Schools Featured on CES ChangeLab
8. Coming up in Horace!
9. National Neighborhood Day 2005
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1. FALL FORUM 2005
Join us for the CES Fall Forum 2005, "Reclaiming the Freedom to Learn," November 3-5 at the
Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel.
Are you striving to make sure that all students get a fair start on a promising future, equipped with the knowledge and skills to make the most of their lives? Do you believe that schools should promote a joy of discovery and instill a passion for learning? If so, then you should not miss this year’s Fall Forum! For over 20 years, the Coalition of Essential Schools has worked to create schools in which intellectual excitement animates every student’s face, teachers work together to improve their craft, and all students thrive and excel. Join us as we draw connections between education and freedom and lay out a vision of schooling in which students are affirmed, engaged, and have a say – along with their parents and teachers – in what and how they learn.
Featured speakers include: Rob Fried, David Hall, Monty Neill, Pedro Noguera, Eileen de los Reyes, Peter Senge, and Rachel Tompkins.
Online registration will open in late August. To register, or for more details on the conference schedule, speakers, sessions, and activities, as well as logistics for registration, hotels, and transportation, visit our website at www.essentialschools.org.
2. AFFILIATE WITH CES NATIONAL FOR THE 2005-06 YEAR!
As we begin the 2005-06 affiliation year (as of August 1st), we hope you will join the CES National network and take advantage of the many benefits of affiliation. The past year has been a tremendous one for our network – many new affiliates have joined our ranks and we have been engaged in exciting and important work. Through various projects, we are identifying and disseminating powerful examples of excellence in instruction and school change nationally, organizing the exchange of knowledge and best practices among practitioners and organizations, and advocating for conditions that enable our kind of schools to thrive. We are strong, getting stronger, and look forward to your continued support in making a difference in the lives of students.
To become a 2005-06 CES National Affiliate or to renew your status, schools and organizations must complete or update their profiles on the CES website and pay the affiliation fee of $500. Individuals who are not associated with a school or regional center may affiliate as “Friends.” To become or renew your status as a CES National Friend, please create or update your profile and pay the annual affiliation fee of $75. For more information on the benefits of affiliation and the resources available for affiliates, please visit our website: http://www.essentialschools.org.
New this year: In order to register for the Fall Forum at affiliate rates, or to claim fee waivers or facilitator discounts, you or your school/organization must be affiliated and have paid dues by the time you register. As registration opens in late August, we recommend that you complete or renew your affiliation by no later than September 1.
3. CES ESSENTIALVISIONS DVD NOW AVAILABLE
The CES Essential Visions DVD project brings the Common Principles to life with real stories and tools from today’s most successful small schools. Disc 1: Classroom Practice captures how the common principles “less is more, depth over breadth” and “student-as-worker, teacher-as-coach” are implemented in two different CES schools. Focused segments show unique perspectives on the benefits and challenges of each principle, while lesson plans and student work samples provide educators the tools they need to drive improvement.
For a limited time, if you pre-order Disc 1: Classroom Practice immediately after registering for the Fall Forum online, you’ll receive a 20% discount off the retail price of $39.95. DVDs will be shipped beginning October 1, 2005. Visit www.essentialschools.org or call 510 433-1451 after August 19, 2005 to learn more about the project and order your copy.
4. SMALLS SCHOOLS PROJECT UPDATE
SMALL SCHOOLS PROJECT ADDS NEW SCHOOLS
We are pleased to announce the addition of several new schools to the Small Schools Project. Please join us in welcoming new and emerging mentors, a new conversion team, and new school design teams to the network.
New Mentor Schools:
The Met, Peace Street Campus
High Tech High
Leadership High School
Amy Biehl Charter School
Emerging Mentor School:
Young Women’s Leadership Charter School
New Conversion Team:
Olympic High School
New School Design Teams:
Capitol City Upper Charter School
CES/Mills Experiential Learning Academy
Connections Public Charter High
Memphis/Bridges Small School
Bayview Essential School of Music, Art and Social Justice
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005
This past July, we hosted the second annual CES Small Schools Summer Institute in Tacoma, WA. It was a resounding success. Over 250 people came from all over the country, representing many different kinds of schools, roles, and backgrounds. Forty-five youth were in attendance, participating and contributing fully with the adults. The rich exchange, enhanced by the diversity of the attendees, made the institute a unique event, different from any other educational gathering in the country. If you missed Summer Institute, 2005, don’t worry. Next year’s institute, in Colorado, will be bigger and better! Stay tuned for more information.
5. ANNOUNCING THE CES DISSERTATION SCHOLARS PROGRAM
The Coalition of Essential Schools announces the CES Dissertation Scholars Grant Program. CES invites dissertation proposals that examine the implementation and effectiveness of CES practices and CES schools. CES will provide up to five awards of $2000-$4000 each. In addition to the grant, award winners will receive a stipend to attend and present their research at the Fall Forum, CES’ annual conference.
Proposals for CES Dissertation Scholar Grants will be reviewed twice a year, with funding decisions made within a month of the review date. Upcoming deadlines for proposals are: December 1, 2005, to be reviewed in December and April 20, 2006, to be reviewed in May.
For more information, including application guidelines, visit our website:
http://www.essentialschools.org/pub/ces_docs/about/org/DSP_cfp.html
6. IN COMMON CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Do you have news you want to tell the CES National network? Is there a project at your school you want to celebrate? Is your organization making great strides toward bettering education for youth? Do you want your voice to be heard?
Now is your chance to share.
In Common is the primary vehicle for CES affiliates to communicate their successes, reflections, and events to our growing national network. It is essential that affiliates take time to participate. Write up a little something about your staff, students, grants, workshops, or achievements, and take part in the national dialogue about issue of importance to CES.
There are two different ways to participate:
1. Submit a news item (between 50-80 words for CES schools and 100-150 words for CES centers). Submissions for In Common news items are due September 1.
2. Submit an article or essay. These longer pieces should be between 500-700 words, and can focus on a wide range of topics (e.g. a reflection on one’s first year of teaching or a detailed account of a project-based learning activity). Submissions for In Common essays are due August 26.
Please send all submissions, inquiries, and comments to Gwenyth Shears at CES National, gshears@essentialschools.org or 510-433-1912.
7. NEW SCHOOLS FEATURED ON CES CHANGELAB
The next cohort of CES Mentor Schools is now online! Now you can have direct access to even more images, discussions, and resources from the most successful CES schools and educators. The newest cohort is comprised of Eagle Rock School in Colorado, El Colegio and High School for Recording Arts in Minnesota, Parker Charter Essential School and Fenway High School in Massachusetts, Harmony School in Indiana, School of the Future in New York, and Wildwood School in California. Through ChangeLab, teachers, students, and parents are able to easily find even more proven examples of effective classroom practice.
See How. Visit, www.ceschangelab.org
8. COMING UP IN HORACE
Look for the next issue of Horace, "School District Change to Support Essential Schools," arriving in mid-August! If you don't subscribe to Horace and don't want to miss another issue, visit http://www.essentialschools.org/horace for subscription information, back issues, and more.
Horace is seeking stories about schools and school systems that have created successful transitions and pathways from grade to grade, school to school, and from school to higher education or other opportunities. We're eager for stories across the spectrum, from pre-K through postsecondary. Please contact Horace editor Jill Davidson at jdavidson@essentialschools.org with your thoughts, ideas, leads, and stories. Information received by September 1 is most useful.
9. PARTICIPATE IN NATIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD DAY 2005
National Neighborhood Day, a national nonprofit initiative focused on civic education through the building of neighborhood relationships, is looking for schools and individuals to participate in a national day of neighborhood gatherings on Sunday, September 11. The simple goal of National Neighborhood Day is to bring neighbors together and to help enhance neighborhood connections. Established two years ago to fall on the 2nd Sunday of September, National Neighborhood Day will be celebrated in communities all over the country.
Schools, teachers, and students are particularly encouraged to devise activities for the celebration this year. Your school can participate in National Neighborhood Day by doing something as simple as taking students on a neighborhood tour or reading and discussing books about neighborhoods. Or, it can be a bigger event like an open house for parents and community members, a neighborhood clean-up, or a garden planting. The exact nature of the event is up to each community and it need not happen only on Sunday, September 11 – just sometime in August or September, if possible.
To learn more about National Neighborhood Day or to find ideas and tools to help plan, organize, and spread the word about a school event, visit www.neighborhoodday.org. As you make plans, please inform the staff at National Neighborhood Day so that they can post it on their website, feature it in their newsletters, and include it in their press materials nationwide. In addition, they ask that you document the event and send copies of photos, videos, news clippings, quotes from participants, etc. so that they can recognize your participation and use your story to help increase the momentum for National Neighborhood Day 2006.
For questions about National Neighborhood Day or for help in planning an activity, please contact Ms. Sam Grabelle at sgrabelle@neighborhoodday.org or (401) 454-3183.
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