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• Katrina Volunteer From July 10 to July 31, 2006, I went to New Orleans as a volunteer with a non-profit organization called People’s Organizing Committee (POC). This organization’s main goal was to get the... March 27, 2008 by Julius Rainey - Instruction, Student-as-worker
• 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
• EssentialVisions Disc 1: Classroom Practice Disc 1: Classroom Practice • Student-as-Worker, Teacher-as-Coach – School of the Future, NYC, NY • Less is More, Depth over Coverage – Francis W. Parker Charter Essential... October 19, 2009
• What's 'Essential' About Learning in the World of Work Sidebars:Trying on Work While Trying Out MindsThe Six A's of Designing ProjectsStudents as Workers Facing Real-World ProblemsAssessing Habits of Mind in a Project of InternshipHelping Workplace... April 29, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Community Collaboration
• Learning Technology Skills Through Social Entrepreneurialism The only complaint I heard at the ninth grade Applied Technology final exhibition was, “Only $3,000? But I want to make a donation to every organization!” I had to agree. It was a... July 21, 2009 by Jean Pendleton - Instruction, Technology And Information Literacy, Service-Learning
• The Power of Service-Learning: One School’s Quest I had no idea when I started this experience how much real learning I would actually do. So much of the understanding of something is not found in a book or classroom experience. It was only when I... April 02, 2008 by Kim Huseman, Lawrence Kohn - Community Collaboration, Service-Learning
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Teaching in the Essential School Sidebars:Essential Math and Science : How Can It Work?Designing Assignments Across DisciplinesWhat About Teacher Education?Information and Resources It has become a truism in education that the... March 14, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Instruction, Subject Integration, Student-as-worker
• Math and Science in the Essential School Sidebars: Some Ways Math And Science Are Used McDonald's Claim Changing Words Into Graphs How Newton's Laws Shape Our Culture Order Out of Chaos For Further Reading Integrating math and science... April 30, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Curriculum, Subject Integration, Cooperative Learning
• Technology in the Essential School: Making Change in the Information Age Sidebars:Tech Tips for School People The Digital PortfolioWhere to Go for Help: A Resource List for Technology and Learning No matter how powerful, high tech alone can't make schools better.... April 30, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Instruction, Portfolios, Technology And Information Literacy
• What Makes for Powerful Learning? Students Tell Their Own Experiences What works best to engage, motivate, and challenge students to learn? In the midst of the national fervor to raise the quality of teaching and learning, educators or policymakers often forget to... June 19, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Instruction, Personalization, Student-as-worker, Cooperative Learning
• Through Our Eyes I am a dancer. A teacher. An improviser. My pedagogy is centered on the concept of embodied education, a model that invites students to bring their whole bodies to the learning experience. I invite... July 21, 2009 by Sara Narva - Instruction, Technology And Information Literacy
• Technology as a Fence and a Bridge Note from the author: Over the past few years I’ve become increasingly curious about the role of technology in the classroom. I’m interested in teacher attitudes toward new technologies... July 21, 2009 by Bryan Wehrli - Instruction, Technology And Information Literacy
• Information, Literacy, and the Essential School Library Sidebars:What Students Shuld Be Able to DoPitfalls of Library AssignmentsSearching, Synthesizing, Analyzing in the 21st Century 'Stacks'How to Conduct a Boolean SearchWeaving the Library Program... April 30, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Instruction, Technology And Information Literacy
• Scheduling the Essential School Sidebars:Example SchedulesInformation & Resources Imagine you have a week to accomplish a series of specific tasks, Bob McCarthy likes to say to the people who come to the scheduling... March 14, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Learning Structures, Scheduling
• 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
• Adventures in Web 2.0: Introducing Social Networking into My Teaching “As new technologies shape literacies, they bring opportunities for teachers at all levels to foster reading and writing in more diverse and participatory contexts.” –“A... July 21, 2009 by Honor Moorman - Instruction, Technology And Information Literacy
• Twittering About Learning: Using Twitter in an Elementary School Classroom Many years ago, when I first started teaching, a colleague showed me a great technique for communicating with families: At the end of the day, she used a 24- by 16-inch chart tablet to produce... July 21, 2009 by Jeff Kurtz - Instruction, Technology And Information Literacy