Horace 1 | Vol 24 (13)
Lifecycles of Educators: Essential School Staff Development: This issue examines the career directions of Essential school teachers and education leaders, focusing on professional learning communities to address the challenge of developing the capacity of educators and administrators to sustain success, create improvement, and start new schools.
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- Learning by Teaching: The New Teachers Collaborative A belief in “learning by doing” lies at the heart of the New Teachers Collaborative (NTC), a small teacher-preparation program at the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School,... April 14, 2008 by Claire Fox Ringwall, Laura Rogers - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities
- Good Teaching Is a Conversation Last night, I finished editing a draft of a friend’s article on artificial skin, which he had written for a scientific journal. The prose was exceptionally dense, almost opaque, built on a... April 14, 2008 by Eileen Shakespear - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities
- Teachers Talking Together: The Power of Professional Community Schools that encourage teachers to do excellent work, as Boston Arts Academy (BAA) does, are “professional learning communities.” A professional learning community exists when the entire... April 04, 2008 by Linda Nathan - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities
- Principled Principal Development: The Greater Boston Principal Residency Network Educators in Massachusetts are faced with this question: what measures are necessary to stop a policy that is clearly discriminatory against low-income school districts whose students, as a... April 14, 2008 - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities
- Connecting Compensation and Evaluation to Build Professional Development At Maryknoll School in Honolulu, Hawaii, a Coalition of Essential Schools affiliate since 1995, teachers and administrators are continually working on the issue of building capacity for leadership.... April 14, 2008 by Natalie Morey - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities
- Essential Staff for Essential Schools: Horace Interviews Misha Lesley Misha Lesley, founding principal of Empowerment College Preparatory High School in Houston, Texas, currently serves on the CES National Executive Board and is a Program Director at Prepared 4 Life, a... April 14, 2008 by Jill Davidson - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities
- Investing in Teachers For Student Success: The Teaching Fellows Program Capital City Public Charter School was founded in 2000 with a vision of an academic program built on progressive principles and research on educational best practices. An Expeditionary Learning... April 14, 2008 by Amy Wendel, Ann Mantil - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities
- Notes on this Issue The perspectives offered here may seem less inclusive of student voices than those that generally appear in Horace. But all the authors included in these pages – all CES network educators and... April 04, 2008 by Jill Davidson - Teacher Collaboration & Learning
- Go to the Source: More about the Schools and Organizations Featured in this Issue Boston Arts Academy 174 Ipswich Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 telephone: 617.635.6470 www.bostonartsacademy.org Boston Day and Evening Academy 20 Kearsarge Avenue Roxbury,... April 14, 2008
- Where to Go for More: Resources for Essential School Staff Development Horace is indebted to two sources in particular for some of these items and ideas. Consultation with Gene Thompson-Grove, National School Reform Faculty Facilitator and Founding Co-Director Emerita,... April 14, 2008
- From The Inside Out: Eagle Rock School Producing a New Generation of CES Teachers Six years ago, I founded Eagle Rock’s Teaching Fellowship Program in collaboration with Public Allies, Inc. and under the auspices of Eagle Rock’s Professional Development Center. I knew... April 14, 2008 by Dan Condon - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities
- Looking Together at Student Work, Second Edition Looking Together at Student Work, Second Edition by Tina Blythe, David Allen, and Barbara Shieffelin Powell (Teachers College Press, 96 pages, $15.95) Looking Together at Student Work is a... April 14, 2008 by Jill Davidson
- Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary by Bill Strickland with Vince Rause (Doubleday, 240 pages, $23.95) Make the... April 14, 2008 by Jill Davidson
