Common Principles for Uncommon Schools

Horace Bil Johnson

How Changing a Life Can Help Change Schools

Changing lives, changing schools, indeed—any impact I have had on changing schools in any way is because Ted and Nancy Sizer changed my life and growth as an educator. In the summer of 1986, I was living temporarily in New York City and thinking about the ways that the big, traditional high school I was working at outside of Boston

Horace: Bil Johnson Published: December 2, 2009 By: Bil Johnson Topics: Horace's Compromise, Ted Sizer

Linchpins or Lost Time: Creating Effective Advisories

Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS) in East Harlem was one of the most highly acclaimed and successful schools to come out of the period of school reform in the 1980s from which the Coalition…

Horace: Bil Johnson Published: December 2, 2009 By: Bil Johnson Topics: Advisories
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