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| Subject | CES e-ssential NEWS * * * Summer 2006 |
| From Email Address | news@essentialschools.org |
| Test Email Address | bbradshaw@essentialschools.org |
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| Date Sent | 08/04/2006 |
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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE
1. Fall Forum 2006
2. Affiliate with CES National
3. CES EssentialVisions DVD
4. Choosing Small: The Essential Guide to Successful High School Conversion
5. Horace call for student submissions
6. Small Schools Project Update
7. In Common Call for Submissions
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1. FALL FORUM 2006
Join us for the 20th annual Fall Forum, "Many Voices, Common Principles: The Power to Transform," November 2-4 at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile.
For more than 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 recognize the principles that we hold in common and focus on adding voices to a movement that works to transform schools into high-achieving and equitable places of learning that are connected to their communities.
Featured speakers include: Jesus (“Chuy”) Garcia, The Forum for Education and Democracy, Ted and Nancy Sizer, Margaret J. Wheatley, Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., a panel of Chicago educational leaders, and alumni from CES schools
Online registration will open on August 18th. 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 2006-07 YEAR!
As we begin the 2006-07 affiliation year (as of August 1st), we hope you will join the CES 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 2006-07 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. New this year, we have introduced an affiliation category for college and graduate students. Students may receive the same benefits as Individual Affiliates, but for an annual affiliation fee of $35. For more information on the benefits of affiliation and the resources available for affiliates, please visit our website: http://www.essentialschools.org.
Please note: 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 mid August, we recommend that you complete or renew your affiliation by no later than August 15.
3. CES ESSENTIALVISIONS DVD NOW AVAILABLE
DVD 2 of CES EssentialVisions is now available for purchase. The CES EssentialVisions DVD project brings the Common Principles to life with real stories and tools from today’s most successful small schools. DVD 2 features the principles Personalization, Demonstration of Mastery, and Commitment to the Entire School – Teacher as Generalist. Follow science teacher Ramiro Gonzalez and sophomore Keenan Cooks through the Boston Arts Academy to see some examples of how personalization can influence school structure and classroom practice. Live the experience of a group of twelfth graders and two advisors as they prepare for senior exhibitions, a year long culminating demonstration of mastery project that is a graduation requirement at Quest High School in Humble, Texas. Also see how Empowerment High School, a new public school in Houston, works to institutionalize demonstration of mastery through exhibitions and through their supportive working relationship with Quest High School. With Makala Field’s and her advisory, learn how The Met – Peace Street campus in Providence, Rhode Island expands the traditional role of “teacher” to that of an “academic advisor,” “manager,” and “counselor” so each teacher can be committed to the entire school.
For a limited time, if you pre-order DVD 2 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, 2006. DVD 1: Classroom Practice is also available for purchase on the CES on-line store. Visit www.essentialschools.org or call 510 433-1843 to learn more about the project and order your copies of both DVDs.
4. 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
5. CALL FOR STUDENT-WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS FOR HORACE 22.4!
"Youth Leadership and Essential Schools: Student Voices," a completely student-written issue of Horace, will be released at Fall Forum 2006 in Chicago and sent to all CES affiliates and Horace subscribers. "Youth Leadership and Essential Schools: Student Voices" will focus on students’ experiences of actively participating in their education and the improvement of systems of education for all young people. We’re looking for a wide range of student writing on their own educational activism, and we expect to get a wide range of thought-provoking, inspiring, and challenging responses.
CES school leaders, watch your email in mid-August for a call for submissions to let your school community know that students have the opportunity to participate in this showcase of student commitment to academically vibrant, equitable, and personalized schools for all. The call for submissions outlines what we are looking for, the scope of student commitment, the timeline, and more. Please note that the timeline is swift: the deadline for initial submissions is September 13 and the deadline for final revisions is September 29. If you would like a copy of the call for submissions now, please email Horace editor Jill Davidson at jdavidson@essentialschools.org
If you are in touch now with students who may want to contribute, feel free to let them know about this. And we hope that as the school year starts (or, now, for those of you at year-round schools), you will share this with students either on an individual basis or via whole-school meetings, advisories, and/or classrooms.
6. 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, and new school design teams to the network.
New Mentor School:
Life Learning Academy, San Francisco, CA
Emerging Mentor Schools:
Greenville Technical Charter School, Greenville, SC
International School of the Americas, San Antonio, TX
New School Design Teams:
Academy of Creative Professions, New York, NY
Innovative Design and Engineering Academy, Yonkers, NY
Native American Community Academy (NACA), Albuquerque, NM
Urban School for Public Affairs and Service, New York, NY
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2006
This past July, we hosted the third annual CES Small Schools Summer Institute in Denver, CO. It was a resounding success. Nearly 350 people came from all over the country and abroad, representing many different kinds of schools, roles, and backgrounds. Fifty-four 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 2006, don’t worry. Next year’s institute will be bigger and better! Stay tuned for more information.
7. IN COMMON CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Do you have news you want to tell the CES 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 1st.
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 25th.
Please send all submissions, inquiries, and comments to Gwenyth Shears at CES National, gshears@essentialschools.org or 510-433-1912.
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