Horace 2 | Vol 25 (16)
CES at 25: Changing Schools, Changing Lives:
This special Fall Forum double issue offers a wide range of perspectives on the Essential schools movement at the moment of its 25th anniversary. Contributions range from recommending expansion of the CES Common Principles, analyses of ways to sustain the work of CES schools, and personal reflections from CES network educators on the influence and legacy of CES founder Ted Sizer.
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- 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
- Always There Everybody seems to have a short memory, which is why we keep making mistakes in this country. This is supposed to be why we study history. The history of the education reform movement from the 1960s... December 02, 2009 by Dennis Littky - Ted Sizer
- CES at 25: The Transformative Power of Principle-Based Education As this issue of Horace goes to press and with great sadness, we share the news that CES's founder, Theodore R. Sizer, passed away on October 21, 2009 at home in Harvard, Massachusetts. Ted leaves... December 02, 2009 by Jill Davidson - Ted Sizer, Common Principles
- 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
- Horace’s Legacy: Learning with Purpose, A Proposal to Add Two New Common Principles “Purpose serves as a principle around which to organize our lives.” -Anonymous There’s a story told about a farmer from Nebraska. It seems that every year the farmer grew amazing,... December 02, 2009 by Joe Greenberg - Common Principles
- How Changing a Life Can Help Change Schools Changing lives, changing schools, indeed—any impact I have had on changing schools in any way is because Ted and Nancy Sizer changed my life and growth as an educator. In the summer of 1986, I... December 02, 2009 by Bil Johnson - Ted Sizer, Horace's Compromise
- How Right He Had It I began my professional life as a bilingual high school teacher in Boston before there was actually much formal “bilingual education” to be had. A small group of great teachers and a... December 02, 2009 by Larry Myatt - Ted Sizer, Horace's Compromise
- In the Company of Teachers Every one of us in the Coalition remembers the first time we met Ted Sizer. For me, it was at a small meeting of teachers in Georgia where Ted had shown up to see what they were doing in their... December 02, 2009 by George Wood - Ted Sizer
- Linchpins or Lost Time: Creating Effective Advisories That advisories in secondary schools are fairly pervasive around the country may be one of the great unintended consequences of the Coalition of Essential Schools reform effort. While no CES Common... December 02, 2009 by Bil Johnson - advisories
- Loud and Clear It’s been over 25 years since I first I ran across Ted Sizer’s name. Harvard and Andover? Not in my “set.” Despite those affiliations, some friends of mine said I... December 02, 2009 by Deborah Meier - Ted Sizer
- Sustaining Change: The Struggle to Maintain Identity at Central Park East Secondary School Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS) in East Harlem was one of the most highly acclaimed and successful schools to come out of the period of school reform in the 1980s from which the Coalition... December 02, 2009 by Dianne Suiter, Deborah Meier - sustainability
- Sustaining the Mission of CES Schools As years pass, we all face the general human condition of becoming tired, complacent, and, at times, not interested in further improvements. For example, Samantha, an excellent veteran teacher leader... December 02, 2009 by Carl Glickman, April L. Peters - Keeping The Vision
- Ted Sizer’s Opening Remarks, Fall Forum 2000, Providence, Rhode Island Note from the editor: Most Coalition of Essential Schools Fall Forums have opened with remarks from CES’s founder, Ted Size. Ted’s observations reconnected us with our purpose and... December 02, 2009 by Theodore Sizer - Ted Sizer, Common Principles
- 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
- The Value of Core Principles in the Age of Change As I reflect on CES and its groundbreaking, significant work over the past 25 years, I am regularly reminded of the importance of the core guiding principles, even as the educational landscape... December 02, 2009 by Adelric McCain - Common Principles
- Working with Ted I never worked “with” a boss before working with Ted at Brown University. I had always known of Ted—he was Dean at Harvard Graduate School of Education when I was a student there,... December 02, 2009 by Paula Evans - Ted Sizer, Common Principles
