Download or read book Big Buildings Small Schools written by Lili Allen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Schools Big Ideas written by Mara Benitez and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Schools, Big Ideas shows how the principle-based and equity-focused model from the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) can be used to redesign existing schools and create new schools that prepare students for this century's challenges and opportunities. Filled with inspirational stories and illustrative examples from schools that have successfully implemented CES principles and practices, Small Schools, Big Ideas offers information and inspiration needed to: Transform schools in order to achieve equitable outcomes for all students Understand various school design options Establish school vision, mission, and goals to raise educational expectations and results Develop transformational leadership Cultivate a professional learning community Implement student-centered teaching, learning, and curricula Build productive relationships with families and communities Establish strategies for sustainability These recommendations and proven strategies can help educators transform their schools to become truly equitable, personalized, and academically challenging.
Download or read book Excellence for All written by Jack Schneider and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early twenty-first century, a startling consensus had emerged about the overall aim of American school reform. In an era of political discord, and in a field historically known for contentiousness, the notion of promoting educational excellence for all students was a distinct point of bipartisan agreement. Shaped by a corps of entrepreneurial reformers intent on finding "what works" and taking it to scale, this hybrid vision won over the nation's most ambitious and well-resourced policy leaders at foundations and nonprofits, in state and federal government, and in urban school districts from coast to coast. "Excellence for all" might, at first glance, appear to be nothing more than a rhetorical flourish. Who, after all, would oppose the idea of a great education for every student? Yet it is hardly a throwaway phrase. Rather, it represents a surprising fusion of educational policy approaches that had been in tense opposition throughout the twentieth century--those on the right favoring social efficiency, and those on the left supporting social justice. This book seeks to understand why the "excellence for all" vision took hold at the time it did, unpacks the particular beliefs and assumptions embedded in it, and details the often informal coalition building that produced this period of consensus. Examining the nation's largest urban school districts (Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York), the author details three major reform efforts in chapters titled "The Right Space: The Small Schools Movement"; "The Right Teachers: Teach for America"; and "The Right Curriculum: Expanding Advanced Placement."
Download or read book From Large School Buildings to Small School Campuses written by New Visions for Public Schools and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York City Department of Education, like other urban public school systems, is facing the task of reforming many large high schools that have had graduation rates under fifty percent for many years. With new federal sanctions for failing schools under the No Child Left Behind Act, many schools nation-wide that have been prominent institutions in their neighborhoods for decades are now slated to close. One promising strategy to reform secondary education is to create small schools with rigorous and personalized instruction for students in the place of large low-performing schools. With limited construction funding, New York City has turned to adaptive reuse of large high school structures to house a substantial majority of the new small secondary schools opened as part of this reform effort since 2002. The need to maintain the use of existing buildings meant that growing small schools and phasing-out large schools share the same buildings over a multi-year transition period. This book describes the Department of Education's dynamic approach to the nexus of academic reform and architectural adaptation, as buildings evolved to become campuses of small schools. As other school systems embark on large-scale high school reform strategies, the solutions New York found may assist them in this transition. This book describes the redesign of 21 campuses over the course of the past year. [This paper was written with Laura Kurgan.].
Download or read book A Review and Assessment of the Use Impact and Accomplishments of Federal Appropriations Provided to Improve the Education of Children in the District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Handbook for Developing Supportive Learning Environments written by Teddy Holtz- Frank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides practical strategies and guidelines to improve student success and develop supportive learning environments. It is geared for school administrators, teachers, trainers, business and organizational leaders, community organizers, faith based leaders, and all those who work to improve schools. The easy-to use tools can be applied to initiatives already underway in your school, such as No Child Left Behind Mandates, School Improvement Grants, Title I Programs, and Teacher Education and Mentoring Programs
Download or read book Teaching as an Act of Love written by Richard Lakin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Lakin's collection is geared to teachers, principals, parents, and all those concerned with making schools more loving and effective for each child. He presents a close look at his school staff working together to create both a caring, challenging learning environment and a real partnership between school and home. In today's high stakes and test obsessed world, Teaching as an Act of Love encourages teachers as they remember why they entered teaching in the first place-to zero in on the individual child, "the whole child" and encourage the love of learning. In the 55 informative and optimistic pieces in the book, Richard proposes more personalized "smaller caring schools of choice," where the child comes first, where bureaucracy, testing and NCLB are minimized and where a loving school climate and kindness prevail
Download or read book Choosing Small written by Jay Feldman and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choosing Small With low achievement and high drop-out rates plaguing our larger public high schools, communities across the country are creating smaller, more personalized schools that share a larger campus. Drawing on the Coalition of Essential Schools' longtime experience in school design, Choosing Small offers practical and strategic guidance for educators interested in transforming their high school. Featuring interviews with educators experienced in school conversion, the book covers all aspects of the conversion planning and implementation process such as engaging a broad array of stakeholders, working with the district, creating vision statements for the new schools, building leadership and management structures, and identifying curricular options as well as instructional needs. Praise for Choosing Small "Choosing Small provides necessary lessons onhigh school conversions, one of the most difficultreform efforts of our time." —Theodore R. Sizer, founder,Coalition of Essential Schools "A guide to creating the kind of schooling thatour young people need and deserve." —Ron Wolk, founding editor, Education Week "Anyone in a school leadership position who istrying to create high schools for the twenty-firstcentury should read this book." —John Welch, superintendent, Highline Public Schools, Burien, Washington "This book is for those who have ever gone toschool, been in a school, or realized we coulddo more for our children." —Jamie Kane, principal, Skyview High School, Thornton, Colorado "A must-read for anyone interested inimproving learning outcomes for young peoplethrough smaller, redesigned high schools." —John A. Sanchez, executive director, East Side House Settlement, the Bronx, New York
Download or read book THE EDUCATION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF MR BLOOMBERG written by Sally A. Friedman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an exposé detailing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ́s education and construction policies between 2002 and 2009 inclusive. It covers all major education issues: schools chancellor, school budget, grading of the schools, reducing class sizes, small, charter and culturally themed schools, standardized testing, school safety, overcrowding and mayoral control; and all major real estate development issues: rezoning, ULURP, self-certification, various fatal construction accidents and disasters, affordable housing, lack of construction, law enforcement, and the large projects that characterized the administration. This book features a list of abbreviations and a comprehensive index in the back. A page of the Introduction, p. 11, is crucial for understanding references made throughout the book. Therefore, it is reproduced below: “Making himself available to parents. The mayor performed the important tasks of negotiating with the unions, securing funding from the higher powers and making public relations appearances when there was good news to report. I have observed that there were three recurring themes in Mr. Bloomberg ́s modus operandi in both Education and Real Estate Development: Theme 1: He was overly optimistic. As his various education initiatives and construction projects progressed, he routinely threw around and changed numbers on standardized test scores, graduation rates, school openings, school crime rates, construction costs, creation of jobs and affordable housing units, among others, and sometimes even distorted facts outright. Theme 2: Time after time, Mr. Bloomberg asked for input from the community, or purported to, on new school openings and on construction of schools and other projects, but usually ended up hiring his cronies and ignored the community ́s wishes. Theme 3: He took advantage of legal loopholes or skirted around the law to forge ahead with his agendum. His agendum was to acquire power. Why else did he take control of the schools and overturn term limits? It was not for the money. In November 2009, Mr. Bloomberg won his third-term election bid by a narrow margin, mostly because he was still viewed as a stronger candidate than the opposing one. His power and popularity were waning, however, rocked by various investigations in recent years, including a slush-fund scandal, and corruption and sloppiness in construction that led to fatal accidents that resulted in the termination of decades-long unethical practices. Further, he was accused of being involved in various conflicts of interest and of being hypocritical on environmental and health issues. Two farmyard clichés and one generic cliché also aptly describe many occurrences during the Bloomberg administration between 2002 and 2009: Cliché 1: “Just another case of the fox guarding the henhouse” Cliché 2: “Closing the barn door after the horses have already fled” Cliché 3: “Do as I say, not as I do” The above themes and clichés are so common in my text, that I refer to their generic names; i.e., I will use the blog style, for example, “File under Theme 1” or “File under Cliché 2” when providing evidence of same. Enjoy.”
Download or read book The American Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Schools written by Michael Klonsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael and Susan Klonsky tell the story of how a promising model of creating small schools has been used by the neocons to reproduce old inequities. This is the story of what happens when the small-schools movement meets the Ownership Society.
Download or read book Kaleidoscope written by Kevin Ryan and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2001 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book' s comprehensive table of contents, effective pedagogy, and high-interest readings from a wide range of sources make it appropriate for use either as a core text or a supplement.Improved discussion question pedagogy includes higher-order questions to encourage reflective thinking and problem solving.Beginning Teachers' web site will include ACE self-tests, interactive activities, and selected articles from Kaleidoscope annotated with links and critical-thinking questions.A revised correlation chart arranged alphabetically by topic links each reading to specific chapters in Ryan/Cooper, Those Who Can, Teach, 9/e or Ornstein/Levine, Foundations of Education, 7/e.
Download or read book The Glory of Thinking Big written by Kossi Andrew Singo and published by Virtualbookworm Publishing. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about thinking big for the glory of God and the benefits that follow this kind of thinking. It is about understanding that God wants people to succeed in whatever chosen path in life. The greatest problem for most people and most societies is that people do not want to think. The problem is more enhanced by human's inability to cooperate with God in developing their thinking. The book reminds people that because strength is in God all those who work in partnership with Him will win and succeed. With God on your side there is no defeat. The book invites you to, "Think the same way that Christ Jesus thought." By so doing you will be like Jesus who, "increased in wisdom and stature pleasing God and man." Christ is the only perfect example of a man who thinks big. The whole purpose of salvation is to restore human beings to their original state, the state of immortality. This state will enable the human intellect to grow continuously without a limit. You can start now to enjoy these benefits by applying the principle of doing everything for the glory of God.
Download or read book The Chinese Students Christian Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Education and Small Schools written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Clay worker written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The log of the clay worker": v. 100, p. 188-193.
Download or read book Big City School Reforms written by Michael Fullan and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big cities have mostly failed in their efforts to reform public schools. This book shows why, and offers a framework for achieving future success. Fullan and Boyle, internationally renowned thinkers on school change, demonstrate that while the educational challenges of big cities can be overwhelming, they are not insurmountable. They identify six essential "push" and "pull" actions that can enable big school systems to improve student achievement. Leaders need to push to challenge the staus quo, convey a high sense of urgency, and have the courage needed to intervene. But they need to also pull together to create a commonly owned strategy, develop a profesisonal power of capital, and attend to sustainability. Examining three major cities, New York, Toronto, and London, through the decade of 2002 - 2012. this book weaves case studies with careful analysis and recommendations to hone in on which policies and strategies generate quality implementation that in turn raise the bar for all students and reduce the gap for the disadvantaged. Big-City School Reforms offers invaluable advice to those leading the next phase of school reform in cities around the world.
