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Essential Schools and State Systems: How Is the Climate Changing? Sidebars: Changing a State's Regulations: How Pennsylvania Has Done It A Tribe Transforms Its Schools: The Zuni Story NY's Essential Schools: Partners With The State As... April 29, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Community Collaboration

Essential Schools as Inclusive Education Leaders All learning communities contain a multidimensional spectrum of strengths and weaknesses. By embracing this truth in their values and practices, Essential schools are well poised to respond... August 12, 2005 by Jill Davidson - Instruction, Personalization, Student-as-worker, Cooperative Learning

Essential Schools' 'Universal Goals': How Can Heterogeneous Grouping Help? Once we expect every student to meet the highest goals, the reasons weaken for separating classes in ability groups. But what else has to change when schools stop tracking? How can kids so various... March 14, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman - Learning Structures, Heterogeneous Grouping, Cooperative Learning

Essential Staff for Essential Schools: Horace Interviews Misha Lesley Misha Lesley, founding principal of Empowerment College Preparatory High School in Houston, Texas, currently serves on the CES National Executive Board and is a Program Director at Prepared 4 Life, a... April 14, 2008 by Jill Davidson - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities

Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in Schools Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in Schools, edited by Mica Pollock (New Press, 416 pages, $24.95), reviewed by Kyle Meador Educators dealing with race in schools encounter a... June 01, 2009

Excerpt from First in the Family: Advice About College from First-Generation Students Supporting first-generation students not only to get into college but stay and finish interrupts negative generational patterns in powerful ways. The National Center for Education Statistics reports... September 12, 2006 by Kathleen Cushman

Excerpt from First in the Family: Advice about College from First-Generation Students Supporting first-generation students not only to get into college but stay and finish interrupts negative generational patterns in powerful ways. The National Center for Education Statistics reports... July 10, 2008 by Kathleen Cushman

Exhibitions: Demonstrations of Mastery in Essential Schools What is an exhibition? This issue of Horace features reflection, analysis, critique, description, and arguments from six Essential school educators. Their work provides compelling examples of how... January 28, 2008 by Jill Davidson - Assessment, Exhibitions

Exhibitions: Facing Outward, Pointing Inward The Exhibitions work at Sullivan and English high schools, briefly described in this article, is more fully explored in Graduation by Exhibition: Assessing Genuine Achievement by Joseph McDonald,... May 30, 2002 by Joe McDonald - Assessment, Exhibitions

Exhibitions: Facing Outward, Pointing Inward Exhibitions: Facing Outward, Pointing Inward by Joseph P. McDonald, originally published in 1992 by the Coalition of Essential Schools The CES Exhibitions Project of the early 1990s produced a... February 06, 2008 by Joe McDonald - Assessment, Exhibitions

Failing Our Kids: Why the Testing Craze Won't Fix Our Schools Failing Our Kids collects fifty fact sheets, opinions, and reports from across the United States into one source that disputes the value of one-dimensional testing and affirms personalized... May 29, 2002 by Barbara Miner, Kathy Swope - Assessment

Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students by Kathleen Cushman and the Students of What Kids Can Do, Inc. (The New Press, 240 pages, $24.95) reviewed by Jill Davidson "Getting adolescents to talk honestly takes only genuine interest in... September 03, 2003 by Jill Davidson - Classroom Culture

Fires in The Middle School Bathroom: Advice to Teachers from Middle Schoolers Fires in The Middle School Bathroom: Advice to Teachers from Middle Schoolers by Kathleen Cushman and Laura Rogers (New Press, 240 pages, $24.95), reviewed by Angelis Baez “When we come to... July 22, 2008

Four Essential Elements of School Design When we at the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) talk about "school design," we refer not to the physical design of the school building (though that also deserves attention), but to decisions... March 14, 2002 by Kathy Simon - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities, Scheduling, Heterogeneous Grouping, Peer Coaching

Frameworks for Making Science Research Accesible for All Imagine a classroom of constructive chaos: a group of students is busy as they monitor their work. Another team of students is on the other side of the room redesigning their experiment. They seem... February 06, 2008 by Annie Chien - Assessment, Exhibitions

From Big to Small: An Essential Transformation It’s obvious I wouldn’t be the student or person I’ve developed into if my traditional high school didn’t become a small school. When I envision myself as a senior in a traditional high... February 15, 2008 by Donna Dockter - Community Collaboration

From The Inside Out: Eagle Rock School Producing a New Generation of CES Teachers Six years ago, I founded Eagle Rock’s Teaching Fellowship Program in collaboration with Public Allies, Inc. and under the auspices of Eagle Rock’s Professional Development Center. I knew... April 14, 2008 by Dan Condon - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities

From Vision to Action: Solving Problems through Inquiry at Boston Day and Evening Academy On a mid-week day in mid-December 2008, Boston Day and Evening Academy’s room 209, usually used for board meetings, student assessments, awards dinners, and other occasions requiring an intimate... June 01, 2009 by Andrea Kunst - Data Collection & Analysis, Cycle Of Inquiry

Fun, Easy, and Effective: Sustained Silent Reading as a High School Practice Recently I gave a tour of Noble High School (NHS) to a visiting teacher. A large rural high school in southern Maine, NHS is divided into three schools-within-a-school called academies. Each academy... June 23, 2008 by Kevin Perks

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

Go To The Source: Contact Information for the Schools in this Issue Academy of Citizenship and Empowerment 4424 S 188th Street SeaTac, Washington 98188 phone: 206/433-2342 www.hsd401.org/ourschools/highschools/ace/ Capital City Public Charter School 3047... March 27, 2008

Go to the Source: More about the Essential Schools Featured in this Issue Schools Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center Post Office Box 1770 2750 Notaiah Road Estes Park, Colorado 80517 phone: 970/586-0600 www.eaglerockschool.org Federal Hocking... June 23, 2008

Go to the Source: More about the Essential Schools Featured in this Issue Schools Anzar High School 2000 San Juan Highway San Juan Bautista, California 95045 phone: 831/623-7660 Boston Arts Academy 174 Ipswich Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 phone:... July 10, 2008

Go to the Source: More about the Schools and Organizations Featured in this Issue Essential Schools Capital City Public Charter School 3047 15th Street, NW Washington, District of Columbia 20009 telephone: 202.387.0309 www.ccpcs.org Greenfield Center School 71... February 22, 2008

Go to the Source: More about the Schools and Organizations Featured in this Issue Boston Arts Academy 174 Ipswich Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 telephone: 617.635.6470 www.bostonartsacademy.org Boston Day and Evening Academy 20 Kearsarge Avenue Roxbury,... April 14, 2008

Go to the Source: More about the Schools and Organizations Featured in this Issue Amy Biehl High School 123 Fourth Street SW Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102-3201 telephone: 505 299-9409 http://abhs.k12.nm.us Boston Day and Evening Academy 20 Kearsarge Avenue ... July 22, 2009 - Instruction, Technology And Information Literacy

Go to the Source: More about the Schools and Organizations Featured in this Issue The Antioch Center for School Renewal Antioch University New England 40 Avon Street Keene, New Hampshire 03431-3516 telephone: 603.283.2301 email: ACSR@antiochne.edu... July 22, 2008

Go to the Source: More about the Schools and Organizations Featured in this Issue SCHOOLS Beachwood High School 25100 Fairmount Boulevard Beachwood, Ohio 44122 telephone: 216.831.2080 www.beachwood.k12.oh.us/bhs/index.html Boston International High School 25 Glen... January 06, 2009

Go to the Source: More about the Schools and Organizations Featured in this Issue Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools 1720 Broadway, Fourth Floor Oakland, California 94612 telephone: 510-208-0160 www.bayces.org Boston Day and Evening Academy 20 Kearsarge ... June 02, 2009 by Cheryl Almeida - Data Collection & Analysis, Cycle Of Inquiry

Go To The Source: More about the Schools and Other Organizations Featured in this Issue Schools Clover Park High School Public school serving grades 9-12 11023 Gravelly Lake Drive SW Lakewood, WA ... July 07, 2004 - The Change Process, Democratic Practice

Go To The Source: More About the Schools and Other Organizations Featured in this Issue Schools Arturo Schomburg Satellite Academy High School Public School serving grades 9-12 101 Rev. James A. Polite Ave. Bronx, NY 10459 718-542-2700 Bushwick School for Social... December 16, 2004 - Community Collaboration

Go To The Source: More about the Schools and Other Organizations Featured in this Issue Schools Boston Arts Academy Public school serving grades 9-12 174 Ipswich Street Boston, MA 02215 617/635-6470 www.boston-arts-academy.org The Crefeld School Independent... August 15, 2005 - Instruction

GO TO THE SOURCE: More about the Schools and Other Organizations Featured in this Issue Note from the editor: Customarily, this section provides contact information for each school featured in Horace. Due to the focus of this issue and the sheer number of schools to which the text... December 05, 2005

GO TO THE SOURCE: More about the Schools and Other Organizations Featured in this Issue New York Performance Standards Consortium 317 East 67th Street New York, NY 10021 phone: 212/570-5394, x211 email: info@performanceassessment.org http://www.performanceassessment.org... March 13, 2006

Go To The Source: More about the Schools and Other Organizations Featured in this Issue Schools Anzar High School 2000 San Juan Highway San Juan Bautista, California 95045 phone: 831/623-7660 Boston Arts Academy 174 Ipswich Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 phone:... September 12, 2006

Go To The Source: More about the Schools and Other Organizations Featured in this Issue Schools Academy of Citizenship and Empowerment 4424 S 188th Street SeaTac, Washington 98188 telephone: 206.433.2342 www.hsd401.org/ourschools/highschools/ace Civitas School of... February 19, 2008

Go To The Source: More about the Schools and Other Organizations Featured in this Issue Schools Amy Biehl High School 123 4th Street SW Albuqueque, New Mexico 87102 telephone: 505.299.9409 www.abhs.k12.nm.us Boston Arts Academy 174 Ipswich Street Boston, MA 02215 telephone:... March 05, 2008

Go to the Source: More about the Schools and Other Organizations Featured in this Issue Schools The Center for Technical Education 122 Granite Street Leominster, Massachusetts 01453 phone: 978/534-7735 www.leominster.mec.edu/cte.htm Central Park East Secondary... April 03, 2008

Go To The Source: More About the Schools Featured in this Issue Schools Eastlake High SchoolPublic school serving grades 10-12400 228th Ave. N.E. Sammamish, Washington 98074425/836-6600 http://wwwehs.lkwash.wednet.edu/ Lakeside Middle SchoolPublic school... April 02, 2004

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

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

Great Books for High School Kids: A Teachers' Guide to Books that Can Change Teens' Lives Edited by Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford (Beacon Press, 224 pages, $15.00), BUY NOW!reviewed by Jill Davidson Three cheers for summer! The weather's great, but the best part is more time to read. Those... July 07, 2004 by Jill Davidson - Curriculum

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

Health and Environmental Justice Influence New School Design: Horace Interviews the Founders of Bayview Essential School of Music, Art, and Social Justice Editor's Note: At the time of print publication, the Bayview Essential School for Music, Art and Social Justice was on track to open in August 2008. Developments since have delayed the school's... July 22, 2008

Health Week: A Wellness Immersion At the end of each trimester at Compass School, classes are suspended for week-long immersions in rich, problem-based learning experiences. During Health Week, Community Service Winter Term (which... July 22, 2008

High Schools on a Human Scale By Thomas Toch (Beacon Press, 144 pages, $15.00)reviewed by Laura Flaxman "The prospect of high schools on a more human scale ultimately requires a belief on the part of educators and policy-makers... December 18, 2003 by Laura Flaxman - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities

High Standards for Essential Learning Demand a Mix of Measures Sidebars:Which Assessment Works Best? A Matching Test for EducatorsValid and Reliable? Test Your Own TaskGraduation Standards Go Public: A Different WayCommunity, Politics, and the... May 06, 2002 - Assessment, Planning Backwards, Portfolios, Exhibitions

Homes to Powerful Learning & Delight Architecture has many purposes. It keeps the rain off our heads, keeps our belongings secure, and brings pride and beauty to our lives. But architecture-and school... May 28, 2002 by Herb Childress - Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities

Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! "Of all the teachers in our school, I like Miss Bonkers best. Our teachers are all different, But she's different-er than the rest." My introduction to Dr. Seuss' final work, Hooray for... December 13, 2002

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