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• Looking Collaboratively at Student Work: An Essential Toolkit Siderbars:Some Guidelines for Learning from Student Work The Collaborative Assessment Conference The Tuning Protocol: A Process for Reflection on Teacher and Student Work The Primary Language... March 15, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Looking At Student Work, Teacher Collaboration & Learning
• Improving Instruction Through Inquiry and Collaboration (IITIC) Funded by the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, the Southern Maine Partnership and the CES Northwest Center are each working with three local schools to assess and improve classroom instruction.... June 20, 2002 - Peer Coaching, Critical Friends Groups, Looking At Student Work, Teacher Collaboration & Learning
• Ten by Ten: Essential Schools That Exemplify the Ten Common Principles 1   2   3   4   5   6    ref="#7">7   8   9   10 Schools play out the Coalition's Ten Common... April 29, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - The Change Process, Democratic Practice, Common Principles
• A Caring Adult in a Different Setting In schools where people know each other well and focus on supporting academic and personal growth, meaningful relationships blossom in offices, in the library, on the basketball court, or in the... March 17, 2011 by Gary Heyder
• Innovative School Design for Small Learning Communitites We shape our buildings: thereafter, they shape us. -Sir Winston ChurchillYou have to know a lot or else. -Elliot Washor Radiant streams of sunlight. Wireless networks and handheld computers.... May 28, 2002 by Jill Davidson - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities
• Networks and Essential Schools: How Trust Advances Learning Sidebars: Circles of Support: The Context for Successful School Restructuring The Essential School Network and How It Grew Creating a Network of Schools as Critical Friends: The Fifty Schools... March 15, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Critical Friends Groups, Teacher Collaboration & Learning
• Digital Portfolios: Documenting Student Growth The digital portfolio process at Camino Nuevo High School (CNHS) offers an essential 21st century skill to our students. All students are trained in basic web design to build and maintain their... December 02, 2009 by Matthew Cramer - Instruction, Technology And Information Literacy
• "So Now What?" Managing the Change Process Sidebars:"Stages of Concern" in One School's Change ProcessOne High Schoo's Consensus Decision-Making ProcessThe School Development Program's "Three-by-Three" Process What Schools Can Learn from... April 23, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - The Change Process, Decision Making Processes
• How Friends Can Be Critical As Schools Make Essential Changes Sidebars:Among Friends: Norms for Inquiry and Analysis Essential Tools in the Trek Toward ChangeSome Principles for Planning Effective School Visits A Teacher's Tool for Observing Peers in the... March 15, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Peer Coaching, Critical Friends Groups, Teacher Collaboration & Learning
• School Design: An Architect's View Architect and educator Jeffery A. Lackney, Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, created "Thirty-Three Principles of Educational Design" to focus... May 28, 2002 by Jeffrey A. Lackney - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities
• Where to Go for More: Resources for Cycles of Inquiry and Action Teacher Action Research for Equity and Multicultural Education Though brief, this section of the EdChange website is worth noting as a resource that focuses particularly on inquiry and teacher action... June 02, 2009 - Cycle Of Inquiry, Data Collection & Analysis
• Teacher Renewal: Essential in a Time of Change Sidebars:Who's Teaching What, and to Whom? What Do Essential School Teachers Want Most? Teachers Choosing Peers as Leaders of Change 'Design Studios' Foster Teacher R and D Support for Teachers... March 15, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - The Change Process, Peer Coaching, Critical Friends Groups, Teacher Collaboration & Learning
• The Essential Conversation: Getting It Started, Keeping It Going Sidebars:Figure 1: Conversation Starters: Some Key Questions Figure 2: Some Techniques to Keep the Conversation Going Figure 3: Conversation Starters: A Discussion About Decency Figure 4:... April 24, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - The Change Process
• Essential Collaborators: Parents, School, and Community Sidebars:Some Suggestions for Bringing the Community to SchoolSome Suggestions for Bringing the School to CommunityAttitudes that Foster InvolvementCommunity Focus Group--Expectations from... April 29, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Community Collaboration
• Taking Stock: How Are Essential Schools Doing? Sidebars:Figure 1: Essential Schools' Performance: Some Preliminary Figures Figure 2: Common Measures: What Teachers Feel About Essential Schools Figure 3: Qualitative Questions to Help Assess... April 19, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Cycle Of Inquiry, Teacher Research, Data Collection & Analysis
• Making Great Teachers into Great Advisors: Advisory Training at Parker Charter Essential School Many Coalition schools have incorporated advisories into their school structure to helping students find personal connection and opportunities for growth in school. Schools that find advisories... December 13, 2002 by Jill Davidson - Peer Coaching, Teacher Collaboration & Learning
• 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
• Getting Started in an Essential School Program Sidebars: Re: LEARNING: New Help in Getting Started Information and Resources For schools beginning to move towards adopting the principles of the Coalition of Essential Schools, the first... April 23, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - The Change Process
• Distance Learning and the CES Common Principles Sometimes our classroom is quiet. You might hear the tapping of the computer keys and an occasional chuckle or a sigh. Two or three students sit at separate tables; one is focused on the laptop... July 21, 2009 by Jennie Hallisey - Instruction, Technology And Information Literacy
• Having the Courage To Act on Your Beliefs: Horace Interviews Marcy Raymond and Dan Hoffman on the Founding and Influence of Metro High School Metro High School, in Columbus, Ohio, is a public high school emphasizing math, science, and technology in a small, personalized learning environment. Originally conceived through a grant from CES... December 12, 2008
• 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
• 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
• Oakland's Community Propels Change for Equity Anger and bereavement, throughout history, have provided the engine for relentless struggles for change. -Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder "There were more than 1,400 kids in my daughter's school.... July 30, 2002 by Jill Davidson - Community Collaboration, Small Learning Communities
• What Works, What Doesn't: Lessons from Essential School Reform Lesson 1 Change efforts fail without the support of all key stakeholders from the start. Lesson 2 Get consensus on the  need for change before you start - then begin working... April 27, 2002 - The Change Process
• Looking Back on 15 Years of Essential School Designs Sidebars:In a High-Stakes Testing Environment'Thinking in Questions'Teachers Reach Across Boundaries for Support and InspirationA Multilingual Essential School Develops LanguageSmall Autonomous... May 10, 2002 - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities, Scheduling, Subject Integration
• New Jersey Coalition Schools: Compelled to Collaborate What happens when schools are compelled by external district or state mandates to adopt a democratic leadership structure–as is happening in mandated reform efforts nationwide–rather... May 14, 2002 by Jill Davidson - The Change Process
• Show, Don't Tell: Video and Accountability For centuries schools have used the spoken or written word to assess how a student is doing, regardless of what has been taught. Think of chemistry classes: Hours of work in the lab must be boiled... June 03, 2002 - Community Collaboration
• Where to go for More Resources for Using Architecture to Support Small Learning Communities Here are some starting points for funding, support and inspiration for schools planning architectural change to support personalization and more powerful learning. U.S. Department of Education's... May 28, 2002 - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities
• Standards and School Reform: Asking the Essential Questions Introduction Much talk about school reform today is talk about standards. References to standards lurk especially within the questions that policy makers pose: Are American kids learning as much... June 03, 2002 - Community Collaboration
• Doing Something Real: Horace interviews with Debbie Meier on Community Service Deborah Meier began her teaching career as a kindergarten and Head Start teacher in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City. She was the founder and teacher-director of a network of highly successful... April 02, 2008 - Community Collaboration
• Small Is Not Enough: Daily Connections Among Children and Adults in Oakland Oakland's new scaled-down schools allow the people who work and learn in them to focus on creating environments where it's likely that strong relationships among adults and children will develop... July 30, 2002 by Jill Davidson - Family Collaboration, Small Learning Communities
• Rewriting the Roles Table of Contents: Introduction New Challenges, New Changes Focusing the Snapshot Meeting the Challenges When Work and Roles Change Coping with Confusion Coping with Changes... June 10, 2002 by Neill Wenger, Robert Hampel, Laura Maxwell - The Change Process
• Three Views of Lincoln Table of Contents: Introduction Focusing the Snapshot The First Lens: What is Authentic Work? The Search for Authentic Work in the Public Safety Magnet Student Reactions to the... June 10, 2002 by Neill Wenger, Laraine Hong, Robert Hampel - The Change Process
• On the Road to Renewal Table of Contents: Introduction A Brief Description of Marshall Focusing the Snapshot The Context of Marshall High School Early Stages of Restructuring Violence: A Challenge... June 11, 2002 by Richard Clark, Janet Miller, Neill Wenger - The Change Process
• Protecting Your School's Interest While Promoting Quality Research July 1990. This paper, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without written permission of the authors. (An abbreviated version of this paper appeared in Executive Educator, September... June 03, 2002 by Donna Muncey, Patrick McQuillan