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This area of the website is devoted to the possibilities of creating new kinds
of educational systems and learning communities for today's students now in the
process of becoming the adults of tomorrow's world. How do we make systemic
change in curriculum, teaching and learning strategies that make it possible for
every student to be successful; time schedules that allow projects and
exploration of a topic to be completed; environments that allow for both group
and individual learning and that facilitate the active, participative, and
interactive processes that bring learning to life?
Tacoma TEACH: Making a
Difference Through Collaboration Kurt Miller
Funded by a 21st Century Community Learning Center grant from the Washington
State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the TEACH Project
Director shares their mission to help stabilize the Tacoma Hilltop community by
creating partnerships and relationships to implement after-school programs and
family activities to build strong and successful families and children.
Trends in School Reform
Michael Silver
The Superintendent of Schools for the Tukwila School District considers
standards-based reform, comprehensive school reform and student-centered reform.
Lessons Learned from
15 Years of Family Engagement through Powerful Schools Rebecca Sadinsky
Powerful Schools is a nationally recognized non-profit based in south Seattle,
dedicated to promoting student success in the city's academically and
economically challenged public elementary schools. Powerful Schools' five core
programs funnel vital resources into these schools, including academic expertise,
skilled mentors and tutors, an integrated writing, arts, and reading curriculum
and ongoing involvement and support from families, neighboring businesses and
communities.
Powerful Schools
Rebecca Sadinsky and Greg Tuke
Present and former directors of Seattle's Powerful Schools describe what they
have learned about organizational change in this remarkable inner-city project.
Welcoming Spirit Into Our
Schools Gary Tubbs
The principal of Seattle's The New School makes a case for creating intentional
communities where adults honor the spirit of the child.
Inspiring All Children to
Learn Julie Cain
The Executive Director of Seattle SCORES explains how children in low-income
urban neighborhoods are inspired to learn through this innovative after-school
program.
How Do You Get Black Kids
to Learn? You Just Teach Them! A Conversation with Anitra Pinchback Jill
Hearne
Interview with an award-winning teacher from the African American Academy about
her successful strategies for raising the academic achievement of her students.
Alderwood Middle School Makes a Difference Pat Steinburg and Suzie Baier
A Special Education specialist and a school principal share their strategies to
create a learning environment that resulted in improved test scores, school
participation, and parental satisfaction for students with disabilities.
A Principal's Vision
Lorna Spear
The Principal of Bemiss Elementary School (with more than 85% of the students on
free or reduced lunch) explains how the program provides students with the
academic and social skills and abilities they need to make choices in their
lives.
School Improvement
Process Works at Hood Canal School George Holmgren
A School Improvement Facilitator shows how school success results from hard work,
dedication, staying the course and being intentional with the use of data to
drive decisions.
Student Academic Progress:
Making A Difference Hajara Rahim
Principal of Van Asselt Elementary School describes a successful program that
supports identified needs of students and their community.
A Report on Washington
State's Commission on Student Learning Marlene C. Holayter
A report by Marlene Holayter on the progress being made by the Commission on
Student Learning in Washington State.
The Olympian Initiative:
Training Kids to Think Like Olympians Marilyn King
A two-time Olympic athlete delivers an update on a project working to transform
schools.
Achieving Educational
Excellence: The Agenda for the First Decade of the Twenty-first Century Shirley
McCune
A nationally recognized expert in educational change outlines a plan for
restructuring schools in the 21st century.
What Will It Take? David
Conley
What are the characteristics of quality schools that make it possible for
students to master the ambitious academic standards of Washington State? Is
there a relationship between the funds provided the schools and the results?
The What Will It Take (WWIT) project is focused on finding answers to these
challenging questions.
Success by Design Deborah
Moffit
Deborah describes
Interagency Academy, a public school in Seattle designed to meet the needs of
its students. The article includes links to videos of Academy students voicing
their thoughts on education.
Recreating Schools for
All Children John Morefield
In this article, the author identifies twelve characteristics of successful
schools, and the common mistakes made by well-meaning educators that get in the
way of success.
GEAR UP: Making College
More than a Dream for Disadvantaged Kids Debbie Dougan
The GEAR UP Program gives students hope, encouragement and practical advice for
getting through high school, into college and on to successful careers through
opportunities to participate in meaningful activities, relationships with caring,
supportive adults, and high expectations.
Passages
Northwest: Inspiring Courage in Girls and Women Sheryl Kent, Susan Evans,
and Kim Shirley
Staff members share their girls' and women's program dedicated to educating and
motivating girls and women to develop leadership and courage through the
integrated exploration of the arts and the natural environment.
What is the Gates
Foundation Doing in Education? An Interview with Kenneth Jones Dee
Dickinson
A visit with Kenneth Jones of the Gates Foundation.
A Different Kind of
Independent School Designed for the 21st Century Marja Brandon
The principal of the new Seattle Girls School describes their unique program and
may explain some of the reasons that girls' schools are springing up throughout
the country.
Why Every Child in
America Deserves a School Where She/He is Known and Valued David Marshak,
Ph.D.
David Marshak, a member of the New Horizons for Learning Board and a professor
at Seattle University, writes about the power of personalization in schools. He
proposes a paradigm for American schools where personalization is the core
principle.
What Kind of Schools Are We
Going to Have in the Future? Dick Lilly
A former education reporter and Seattle School Board member reviews what he has
learned about the potential of small schools.
Strategy for Improving
High School and Middle School Student Achievement Through Development of Small
Schools
Dick Lilly
Improvement spotlights transformation from large to small schools as the most
effective action available to U.S. school districts for improving high school
and middle school academic achievement for all students.
Another Way: The Montlake
Project LaVaun Dennett
LaVaun Dennet and her staff decide to restructure their school to better meet
the needs of their at-risk students. They knew smaller class sizes would benefit
their children, but the budget and their building forced them to think "out of
the box" to achieve their objectives.
The Impact of
Collaboration, Assessment-driven Instruction, and Site-based Professional
Development on an Elementary School Kelly Aramaki
A teacher writes of his experiences in a program implemented in his school by
NWIFTL.
Intergenerational
Connections: Creating "Magic" for Young and Old Dorothy E. Dubia
Having volunteers in the classroom benefits everyone.
United States
Why Parents Who have
Experienced Multi-Year Classrooms for their Children Love Them! David
Marshak
Single year relationships among students, teachers, and parents were invented in
1806 in Prussia and brought to the United States in the 1840s by Horace Mann.
This is a pre-psychological model for organizing school that is illogical and
destructive. It's way past time to let it go. Schools that feature multi-year
relationships among students, teachers, and parents offer profound academic and
social and emotional advantages over single year schools.
Breathing Life Into
Our Schools
Jason Kerber
While women have increasingly participated in leadership roles in the
organizational life of schools and school districts over the past several
decades, the original masculine structures were established before women played
a role in leadership. Kerber's argument is that a better balance between the
masculine and feminine would create more collaborative and creative work
environments, healthier organizational structures, and better learning
environments for boys and girls in our schools.
LINKS For Learning
Julie Hancock
The program director explains strategies to increase academic success and reduce
the high dropout rate through improved school performance at the elementary
level.
A New Wave of
Evidence: Relationships Between Effective Parental Involvement and Student
Achievement
compiled by the Washington Alliance for Better Schools
A synthesis of the latest research finding a positive and convincing correlation
between family involvement and benefits for students.
Investing in K-12
Education, One Child at a Time Joan Jaeckel
Director of Citizen's Endowment for Education (CEEDS) emphasizes that the only
way to realize the ideal of an excellent education for every child is to invest
in every individual child and youth's inalienable birthright to an appropriately
customized education.
Nation's Students Still at
Risk James Harvey
Harvey, a professor of education at the University
of Washington, contributes an especially timely and informative editorial about
the current state of education in our country.
Award-Winning District
Reaches All Its Kids Wendy Battino
How does a school district meet the needs of all of its learners learning at
different rates? Chugach shares its innovative approach.
Respecting Teacher
Professional Identity as a Foundational Reform Strategy
Michelle Collay
If we consider relationships with colleagues and young people to be at the core
of teacher professional identity, how might we think differently about the
challenges of enacting school reform?
How Teacher Thinking Shapes
Education Judy Yero
It is not only what teachers say and do, but how they think that can affect how
students learn.
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