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• Benchmark Descriptors: Habits of Mind and Heart Habits of Mind and Heart The school should focus on helping young people learn to use their minds well. Habits of mind and heart are ways that a school can articulate the thinking and... October 05, 2009
• Workshops and Publications to Help Schools Plan and Strengthen Advisories Changing Systems to Personalize Learning: The Power of Advisories The Power of Advisories, created by Debbie Osofsky, Greg Sinner, and Denise Wolk of the Education Alliance at Brown University, is a... December 16, 2004 - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities, Cycle Of Inquiry
• 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
• 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
• What's Out There? Curricula that Support Essential School Ideas Sidebars:How to Analyse a Curriculum Unit or ProjectChallenging Children to Learn, and MoreMath Programs The College Board Sets a New, Demanding Pace for the Majority Systematic Portfolio... April 23, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Curriculum, Subject Integration, Problem-based Learning, Projects & Units
• Benchmark Descriptors: Culturally Responsive Pedagogies Culturally Responsive Pedagogies Culture is central to learning. It plays a role not only in communicating and receiving information but also in shaping the thinking process of groups and... October 05, 2009 by CES - Benchmark
• Closing the Gaps of No Child Left Behind: The Assessment Debate for Essential Schools Recently, a local reporter asked me if No Child Left Behind did more good than bad. I was sitting at my desk with a reporting folder for our district’s upcoming NCLB audit. We had already spent... January 29, 2008 by Lisa Hirsch - Assessment, Exhibitions
• Steps in Planning Backwards: Early Lessons from the Schools A number of schools within the Coalition of Essential Schools have begun to explore a strategy of schoolkeeping called "planning backwards." It takes aim at the dailiness of schooling -- that... April 29, 2002 by Joe McDonald - Assessment, Planning Backwards
• What Research Suggests About Essential School Ideas Sidebars: Some Key Findings that Support Essential School Ideas Three Kinds of Change that Schools Call Reform... Student Achievement in Restructured Schools What Does the... April 19, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Data Collection & Analysis, Cycle Of Inquiry, Teacher Research
• Democratic Leadership in Coalition Schools: Why It's Necessary, How It Works No individual has all the skills–and certainly not the time–to carry out all the complex tasks of contemporary leadership. –John Gardner, On Leadership Coalition principles... May 14, 2002 by Jill Davidson - Governance, Democratic Practice
• 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
• Democracy and Equity: CES's Tenth Common Principle Sidebars: Equity and Action: Some Prompts for TeachersWho Gets to Learn: The Sorry Statistics Characteristics of the Anti-Racist Leader You Get What You Expect: Teacher Expectations Making... April 29, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Governance, Heterogeneous Grouping, Democratic Practice
• 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
• 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... April 29, 2002 by Joe McDonald, Bethany Rogers, Theodore Sizer - Community Collaboration
• Less Is More: The Secret of Being Essential Sidebars:Math Teachers Set New PrioritiesMathematics PortfoliosQuestions for Shaping School CurriculumAn Exhibition that Combines Performance with MemoryThe Art of remembering is the art of... April 23, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Instruction, Student-as-worker, Projects & Units
• Empowering Students: Essential Schools' Missing Link Sidebars:Stages of Student EmpowermentAn Advisory Plan that Involves Students in Setting Standards Coaching Students to Assess How They Are DoingWhat a Democratic Education Looks LikeIn Their Own... April 22, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Governance, Small Learning Communities, Democratic Practice, Developing Leaders
• Teaching as Inquiry: Asking Hard Questions to Improve Practice and Student Achievement By Alexandra Weinbaum, David Allen, Tina Blythe, Katherine Simon, Steve Seidel and Catherine Rubin (Teachers College Press, 192 pages, $21.95) BUY NOW!reviewed by Jill Davidson In the field of... December 16, 2004 by Jill Davidson - Small Learning Communities, Looking At Student Work, Cycle Of Inquiry, Teacher Research, Teacher Collaboration & Learning
• Practice Into Theory: Teachers Coaching Teachers Sidebars:Quotes: ProblemsHorace's MailboxRethinking the Curriculum: It messes things up--but that's what it's supposed to doAssessment and Exhibitions: Do we rearrange the furniture we've got, or... March 14, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Peer Coaching, Teacher Collaboration & Learning
• Portfolios Plus: A Critical Guide to Alternative Assessment Coalition teachers require multidimensional exhibitions of skills and understanding to know that students have met our standards.Coalition students need opportunities to demonstrate their learning... May 28, 2002 - Assessment, Portfolios
• The Process of Planning Backwards: Stories from Three Schools One outgrowth of the nine Common Principles that underpin the work of the Coalition of Essential Schools1 is the notion of planning backwards. It is a means by which a school can focus on the end... April 29, 2002 by Jody Brown Podl - Assessment, Planning Backwards
• How the National Standards Debate Affects the Essential School Sidebars:New York's New Compact for Learning Reflects Essential School Principles Another Way of Measuring Up: One Schools Graduation RequirementsSizer on National Standards: 'A Wise Division of... April 29, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Community Collaboration
• Documenting Whole-School Change in Essential Schools Sidebars: Common Measures: Collecting the Basic Data Uncommon Measures: A Different Kind of Data What Indicators Might an Essential School Follow? Measuring the Strength... April 19, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Data Collection & Analysis, Cycle Of Inquiry, Teacher Research
• Keeping Student Performance Central: The New York Assessment Collection Web Version of New York Assessment Collection Educators now find themselves at the intersection of two rapidly advancing technologies. Both are sometimes touted as saviors for our failing schools.... April 30, 2002 by Joe McDonald, David Allen - Assessment, Portfolios, Technology And Information Literacy
• Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights Robert P. Moses' Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights opens a portal in history, connecting Moses' experiences in the 1960s southern civil rights movement to the current-day Algebra... May 28, 2002 by Robert P. Moses - Curriculum, Projects & Units
• Benchmark Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment While any assessment system should include multiple assessment types that are matched with the needs of teachers (to make decisions regarding instruction) and learners, demonstration of mastery on... November 18, 2009 - Benchmark
• 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
• 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
• Dilemmas of Planning Backwards: Rescuing a Good Idea Some ideas make too much sense. One is the idea that we can improve schools by holding them accountable for the right outcomes. This is the idea behind the work of the National Goals Panel, behind... April 29, 2002 by Joe McDonald - Assessment, Planning Backwards
• Demonstrating Student Performance in Essential Schools Sidebars:The School Inquiry Cycle: Continuous Improvement, Critical ReviewFailure by Design: Why Tests Don't Show What Students Can DoA Consumer's Guide to Those "Standardized" Test... April 19, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Community Collaboration, Cycle Of Inquiry, Teacher Research
• 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
• 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
• English Language Learners in Essential Schools We recognize the fact that no two of our students are exactly the same, and that each changes over time. All this bubbling variety is inconvenient. It would be handy if each thirteen year old was a... March 10, 2003 by Jill Davidson - Instruction, Personalization
• Teacher Education in Essential Schools: The University-School Partnership Sidebars:Demographics, Regulation, Assessment: Who Teaches? How Well? How Do We Know?What Should Pre-Service Education Look Like? An Atlas Community's Answer Suggested Readings/Information In a... March 15, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Peer Coaching, Critical Friends Groups, Teacher Collaboration & 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
• Personalization, High Standards and the Assessment Debates Educators in the Coalition of Essential Schools share a commitment to the idea that they need to assess students' progress to help students keep learning and to help teachers... May 29, 2002 by Jill Davidson - Assessment, Planning Backwards, Portfolios, Exhibitions
• An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftmanship with Students By Ron Berger (Heinemann, 160 pages, $17.50)BUY NOW! reviewed by Laura Flaxman More than ten years ago, when I first saw Ron Berger present a portfolio of his students’ work and explain the... December 16, 2004 by Laura Flaxman - Assessment, Portfolios, Exhibitions, Personalization, 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
• Our New Experience: Teaching Students with Language Learning Based Disabilities in an Inclusive Community In 2004, a group of ninth graders with significant learning challenges entered Fenway High School unconventionally, as Fenway English teacher Rawchayl Sahadeo explains. This gave Fenway— a CES... August 12, 2005 by Rawchayl Sahadeo - Classroom Culture
• 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
• Universal Design: A Key Concept for Inclusive School Success Many people with physical disabilities know that ramps and curb cuts are vital to breaking down barriers in order to move freely. At the same time, these adaptations allow many others – stroller... August 12, 2005 by Jill Davidson - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities
• The Deep Irony of No Child Left Behind: Lisa Hirsch Interviews Linda Darling-Hammond In January 2007, longtime CES educator Lisa Hirsch interviewed Linda Darling-Hammond, the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University, where she launched the Stanford... January 29, 2008 by Lisa Hirsch - Assessment, Exhibitions
• The EdVisions "Dreamscape" Evaluation Plan This article describes the “dreamscape” as EdVisions Schools moves forward as an education development organization. “Dreamscape” refers to the goals we have developed for the network of... June 01, 2009 by Ron Newell - Data Collection & Analysis, Cycle Of Inquiry
• Designing Groupwork: Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom Elizabeth Cohen believes that children should learn together—integrated in all ways, but especially across ability levels and styles. Cohen, professor of education and sociology at the School... April 30, 2003 - Learning Structures, Heterogeneous Grouping
• Implementing Cross-Curricular Literacy Strategies in a Democratic School Federal Hocking High School (FHHS) is in Stewart, Ohio, in the southeastern corner of the state. Considered to be part of Appalachia, the area is a wonderful patchwork of rolling hills and mixed... June 20, 2008 by Ben Warner, Sue Collins - Curriculum
• The Belmont Zone of Choice: Community-Driven Action for School Change During the summer of 2006, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and union officials announced that the Pico Union area of East Los Angeles would soon be home to the Belmont Zone of Choice... February 15, 2008 by Jeremy Nesoff - Community Collaboration
• Inclusion Research at Work at Boston Arts Academy Anne Clark, teacher and administrator at Boston Arts Academy (BAA) offers insight into BAA's fully inclusive pedagogy, an expression of its commitment to CES's Ten Common Principles. Describing... August 12, 2005 by Anne Clark - Instruction, Essential Questions, Student-as-worker, Cooperative Learning
• "Our Schools Have So Much to Offer Each Other": Strategies and Structures for Effective School Visits To investigate powerful teaching and learning, we could inundate ourselves with stories and research about Coalition and other like-minded schools. Phone conversations, emails, books, magazines, web... December 23, 2003 by Jill Davidson - Teacher Collaboration & Learning
• The Power of Protocols: An Educator's Guide to Better Practice by Joseph P. McDonald, Nancy Mohr, Alan Dichter, and Elizabeth C. McDonald (Teachers College Press, 144 pages, $15.95) reviewed by Mary Hastings Many CES schools have been using protocols over... September 03, 2003 by Mary Hastings - Curriculum
• The Arts and Other Languages: From Elective to Essential Sidebars:Results That Matter: Assessment and the Arts Teaching Other Languagaes in the Essential Schools Language Students Exploring Ideas and Experience across the Curriculum Assessing... April 29, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Curriculum, Subject Integration

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