Every year, thousands of schools nationwide assess students’ progress using exhibitions and other means of performance-based assessment. The following schools will be participating in National Exhibition Month 2008 and will engage in various activities that highlight their exhibition work in and around May.
Schools marked with an asterisk (*) are CES Affiliate schools; please visit our affiliation page for more on affiliating with CES as a school, organization, or individual.
In all cases, please contact the schools directly for details about their respective activities.
CES will post information about events around the country as we learn about them. In the coming weeks, this list will be updated regularly, so send in your events and check back to find out activities happening in other parts of the country. Send any event information to Ramon Calhoun at
rcalhoun@essentialschool.org.
On May 21st 12th graders present their senior project exhibitions and 10th graders present exhibitions on school-wide themes at each of three small schools at the Clover Park Campus.
*June Jordan School for Equity
325 LaGrande Avenue
Main Office Room 326
San Francisco, CA 94112
415-452-4922 http://www.jjse.org/
Contact: Allie Bird
April 11 - May 16: Annual 10th grade Move Up Committees and 12th grade Graduation Committees on each Wednesday and Friday afternoon.
*Anzar High School
2000 San Juan Highway
San Juan Bautista, CA 95045
831-623-7660
Contact: Charlene McKowen
There wiil be two rounds of exhibitions. The first is the last week of April/first week of May; and the second is two weeks later, mid-May (please call the school for specific dates).
*East Mountain High School
25 La Madera Road
Sandia Park, NM 87047
505-281-7400 x. 166
http://www.eastmountainhigh.net/
Contact: Lori Webster
May 12 - 16, there will be Senior Portfolios. On May 28 there will be Science Exhibitions.
*City High School
48 E. Pennington St.
Tucson, AZ 85701
520-623-7223
http://www.cityhighschool.org
Contact: Carrie Brennan
May 14, 6-8pm, City Works Showcase, a celebration of all the work done in City Works classes during the school year. Students from all classes will be presenting work through a combination of formal presentations and exhibitions. Please join them for this event.
May 27-June 3, Gateway Exhibition Week. For 9th and 11th graders, this is part of the process of graduating from their current division and moving to the next division (Division 1 to 2 or Division 2 to 3). For 12th graders, the exhibition is one of the steps to graduate from City High School. Participation is required of all students. More details regarding the exhibition schedule to be posted in early May.
*Leadership High School
400 Mansell Street
San Francisco, CA 94134
415-841-8910
http://www.leadershiphigh.org
Contact: Elizabeth Rood
Exhibitions are scheduled for the end of May (please check the school's website for specific dates).
*ARISE High School
3301 – E. 12th Street, Suite 205
Oakland, CA 94601
510-882-6875; 510.436.5487
http://www.arisehighschool.org
Contact: Laura Flaxman
June 17 is final Exhibition Night. The 10th grade portfolio presentations determining who will graduate to the upper division will be scheduled over a two week period in May (please check the school's website for specific dates).
*Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School
49 Antietam Street
Devens, MA 01434
978-772-3293
http://www.parker.org
Contact: Teri Schrader
May 6, a group of prospective graduates will present their Graduation Exhibitions to panels of outside experts as a means to certify their readiness to graduate.
There will be two exhibitions in mid-May: 1) for a global issues class as a culminating experience, and 2) a senior class community service learning exhibition for the entire school community on a year-long study of environmental justice and student leadership.
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