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• Are Advisory Groups ‘Essential’? What They Do, How They Work Sidebars:Some Advisory Group ModelsA Friend is DroppedLying: The Choices We MakeThe Broken Code: Churchill’s Dilemma at CoventryTerranova: An Extra-Territorial Tale If even one person in a… March 14, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman – Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities, Personalization

 

• 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

 

• Why Small Schools Are Essential Why Small Schools Are Essential Volume 13, Number 3January, 1997 SidebarsWhat Research Has Found About Small SchoolsPhiladelphia’s “Small Learning Communities”Why Do Students Do Better in… March 14, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman – Learning Structures, Small Learning Communities, Personalization

 

• 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

 

• What Good Schools Do When Their Students Don’t Do Well Sidebars:Retention May Backfire, the Research CautionsAt This Summer School, Teachers Learn TooA Network to Help Out Mentor ProgramsBoosting Achievement by Reporting It BetterHow Do Kids See Their… May 10, 2002 – Instruction, Personalization

 

• Ten by Ten: Essential Schools That Exemplify the Ten Common Principles 1   2   3   4   5   6    ref=”#7″>7   8   9   10 Schools play out the Coalition’s Ten Common… April 29, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman – The Change Process, Democratic Practice, Common Principles

 

• Linchpins or Lost Time: Creating Effective Advisories That advisories in secondary schools are fairly pervasive around the country may be one of the great unintended consequences of the Coalition of Essential Schools reform effort. While no CES Common… December 02, 2009 by Bil Johnson – advisories

 

• Student Development: How Essential School Practices and Designs Can Help Sidebars:Middle Schools Reflect Essential School IdeasDo Boys And Girls Need Different Things in School?Confronting Moral Questions Within Academic DisciplinesA Coaching Approach to… April 30, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman – Instruction, Essential Questions, Personalization

 

• 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

 

• 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

 

• Teaching in the Essential School Sidebars:Essential Math and Science : How Can It Work?Designing Assignments Across DisciplinesWhat About Teacher Education?Information and Resources It has become a truism in education that the… March 14, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman – Instruction, Subject Integration, Student-as-worker

 

• 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

 

• Ted Sizer’s Opening Remarks, Fall Forum 2000, Providence, Rhode Island Note from the editor: Most Coalition of Essential Schools Fall Forums have opened with remarks from CES’s founder, Ted Size. Ted’s observations reconnected us with our purpose and… December 02, 2009 by Theodore Sizer – Ted Sizer, Common Principles

 

• Equity Drives Essential Schools’ Push for Adolescent Literacy Sidebars:A Student Looks Back on His Reading LifeAcademic Literacy: Awareness, Skills, ContentHelping Students Learn How Good Readers Approach a TextThe Arts As a Natural Partner to… May 10, 2002 – Curriculum, Subject Integration, Student-as-worker, Projects & Units

 

• Distance Learning and the CES Common Principles Sometimes our classroom is quiet. You might hear the tapping of the computer keys and an occasional chuckle or a sigh. Two or three students sit at separate tables; one is focused on the laptop… July 21, 2009 by Jennie Hallisey – Instruction, Technology And Information Literacy

 

• What Students Say About Essential Schools Sidebar:One Student’s View: “This all sounded too simple” I am lost at Parkway South High School. The carpeted corridors make their own logical maze around and up and down the stairways, and… March 14, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman – Instruction, Small Learning Communities, Exhibitions, Personalization

 

• The Family and Essential Schools: Mobilizing Democracy Toward Equity Sidebars: Ten Principles of Parent Engagement Parents as Educational Advocates: Learning to Ask the Right Questions Charter Schools: Parents as a Survival Strategy One Classroom’s Research Turns… April 29, 2002 by Kathleen Cushman – Family Collaboration, Democratic Practice