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| Subject | CES E-ssential News * * * Winter 2005 |
| From Email Address | news@essentialschools.org |
| Test Email Address | bbradshaw@essentialschools.org; gshears@essentialschools.org |
| Send as HTML? | no |
| Date Sent | 12/06/2005 |
| Message: | Your CONNECTION to the Coalition of Essential Schools Network
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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE
1. Join CES’ Small Schools Project
2. Fall Forum 2005 Recap
3. Horace on the Web
4. Horace's Coming Attractions!
5. Submissions for In Common
6. New Resource on High School Conversion
7. CES EssentialVisions DVD Review
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1. Join CES’ Small Schools Project
Do you want to create a new school with CES?
CES is now accepting Letters of Intent (LOI) from design teams of new, small high schools. If you are interested in applying, please submit your LOI along with a letter of support by January 13, 2006.
As there has been tremendous interest in the project, CES will use information from these Letters of Intent to invite a smaller number of teams to participate in the full application process. If selected, the design teams will receive a planning grant from CES, will have one year to plan with the guidance of a CES Mentor School, and will participate in national network professional development events hosted by CES. Teams that receive planning grants will be eligible for two-year implementation grants following the planning year.
For more information, please use the following link:
http://www.essentialschools.org/pub/ces_docs/ssp/n_s/rfi_03.html
2. Fall Forum 2005 Recap
This past November, the CES network gathered together in Boston, MA, for Fall Forum 2005, "Reclaiming the Freedom to Learn.” Nearly 2,100 people attended from 44 states as well as five countries internationally. Over the course of the weekend, attendees visited Boston-area schools, participated in day-long pre-conference sessions, heard from practitioners, scholars, and other speakers, and engaged in conversations around the conference theme and the CES Common Principles in workshops and through informal networking.
The conference featured over 250 sessions led by teachers, principals, and educational consultants from all over the country and abroad. Some highlights included an inspiring opening session in which early Coalition leaders such as Dr. Samuel Billups, Dennis Littky, and Deborah Meier recognized Ted Sizer and described how the Common Principles of CES informed their work. Also, in the opening session, the Reverend Peter Gomes expressed gratitude for educators and spoke about the importance of the profession – “a vocation is what happens when a person’s great joy meets a community’s great need.” Other featured speakers included Peter Senge on systems thinking, a panel on the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind, Rob Fried on authentic learning, a panel discussion on what it means to be free to learn, and David Hall, in the closing session, on the spiritual aspects of teaching. In addition, two featured sessions included students prominently. The first, a performance piece by students from Boston Arts Academy entitled “Soul Element: Breaking the Stereo Types,” was highly entertaining and thought provoking. The second, a panel of students and school leaders from First Amendment Schools entitled “Creating a Laboratory of Democracy,” addressed the issue of how to engage students in the public life of their schools and communities and was also well received.
DVDs of the opening and closing sessions, as well as featured speakers and featured sessions, are available for $25 plus shipping. To order, please contact Carol Anna Lind at CES National, clind@essentialschools.org, 510-433-1843.
Please join us in Chicago, IL, November 2-4 for Fall Forum 2006!
3. Horace on the Web
Horace 21.3, "District Change to Support Essential Schools," is now available in full online. Horace 21.3 focuses on creating school districts that support Essential schools, with case studies of Boston, Indianapolis, Maplewood Public Schools, Colorado, and Humble, Texas. Also featured: interviews with school reform leaders Theodore R. Sizer, New York City Public Schools' Chief Academic Officer for New Schools Eric Nadelstern, and Warren Simmons, Executive Director of the Anneberg Institute for School Reform. Direct link to Horace 21.3: http://www.essentialschools.org/pub/ces_docs/resources/horace/horace.html
4. Horace's Coming Attractions!
In 2006, look for issues of Horace focused on:
Educational Pathways: Transitions to and from Essential Schools
Teaching and Learning Literacy in Essential Schools
Youth Leadership for School Excellence
Curriculum and Community Connections
Please contact Horace editor Jill Davidson at jdavidson@essentialschools.org to learn more and to find out how to contribute articles, reviews, or great ideas.
5. Submissions for In Common
Do you have news you want to share with the CES Network? Here’s your chance!
We are now accepting submissions for the winter issue of In Common, CES’ affiliate newsletter.
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 issues of importance to CES.
To submit, please email a news item (between 50-80 words) or an article/essay (between 500-700 words) to Gwenyth Shears, Membership Coordinator, at gshears@essentialschools.org.
The deadline for submissions is January 9, 2006.
6. New Resource on High School Conversion
Choosing Small: The Essential Guide to Successful High School Conversion
by Jay Feldman, M. Lisette López, and Katherine G. Simon
Foreword by Michael Klonsky, Director, Small Schools Workshop
“Every community that has a large traditional high school should use this important book as a guide to creating the kind of schooling that our young people need and deserve.”
–Ron Wolk, Founding Editor of Education Week
“Anyone in a school leadership position who is trying to create high schools for the twenty-first century should read this book.”
-John Welch, superintendent, Highline Public Schools, Burien, Washington
Communities across the country, upset with the status quo and wanting the best outcomes for all students, are creating smaller, more personalized schools that share a larger campus. Drawing on the Coalition of Essential Schools’ longtime experience in school design, Choosing Small offers practical and strategic guidance for educators interested in transforming their high school. Featuring interviews with educators experienced in school conversion, the book covers all aspects of the conversion planning and implementation process such as engaging a broad array of stakeholders, working with the district, creating vision statements for the new schools, building leadership and management structures, and identifying curricular options, as well as instructional needs.
To learn more, or to order this book, please visit: http://www.essentialschools.org/pub/ces_docs/resources/choosingsmall.html
7. THE REVIEWS ARE IN…
CES EssentialVisions Disc 1: Classroom Practice launched with a positive buzz at Fall Forum. In the first of a 3-DVD set, viewers can SEE HOW the Common Principles come to life with real stories and tools from today’s most successful small schools. Disc 1 captures how the principles “less is more, depth over coverage” and “student as worker, teacher as coach” have been implemented in secondary school classrooms, illustrating how students engage in their education and teachers develop as professionals. This multimedia resource allows educators to experience the Common Principles through:
• In class video
• Interviews with students, parents, teachers and principals
• Student-led school tours
• Lesson plans
• Student work samples
• Thought-provoking professional development toolkit downloadable from the DVD
For more information, to watch a clip, or to purchase the DVD for $39.95, log onto www.essentialschools.org and click on the CES EssentialVisions logo on the right side of the homepage. If you have additional questions about Disc 1 or the project, contact Eva Frank at efrank@essentialschools.org.
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