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- Equity Drives Essential Schools’ Push for Adolescent Literacy Provides powerful reasons and methods for developing adolescent literacy. Noting the increasing diversity of student populations, Cushman urges readers to use the lever of literacy, coaching… Vol 17 | 2 2001
- What Good Schools Do When Their Students Don’t Do Well Surveys school practices and programs that provide intensive support and resources to assist students who are not meeting standards. This issue also describes the challenges schools face when… Vol 17 | 1 2001
- Volume 16.3 Vol 16 | 3 2000
- What Makes for Powerful Learning? Students Tell Their Own Experiences Provides seven students’ accounts from around the country of powerful learning experiences, which provide clues to such pressing concerns as how teachers might assess and document such learning, how… Vol 16 | 2 2000
- Ten by Ten: Essential Schools That Exemplify the Ten Common Principles Illuminates how Essential schools interpret the Ten Common Principles in ways that necessarily reflect very different local contexts. As the principles work in concert, moreover,… Vol 16 | 1 2000
- Essential School Structure and Design: Boldest Moves Get the Best Results Shows how the way schools are designed, from what they teach to how they allocate time and people, should emerge from local priorities and build on what we know about student… Vol 15 | 5 1999
- The Cycle of Inquiry and Action: Essential Learning Communities Explores how a continual dynamic of asking good questions and finding evidence can guide a school’s actions. Inquiry and a culture of evidence are powerful tools in the growth… Vol 15 | 4 1999
- Student Development: How Essential School Practices and Designs Can Help Examines how teachers can best coach kids in the habits of thoughtful adults and support them in their different rates of growth and what this implies for how we organize… Vol 15 | 3 1999
- What’s Out There? Curricula that Support Essential School Ideas Presents a selection of curricula that reflect and support the Ten Common Principles, and helps teachers critically analyze their content, pedagogy, and purposes. Vol 15 | 2 1999
- The Family and Essential Schools: Mobilizing Democracy Toward Equity Sets out ways schools can empower all families to support students’ learning, connecting family involvement to a culture of inquiry and action. [Includes Parent Survey] Vol 15 | 1 1999
- How Friends Can Be Critical As Schools Make Essential Changes Provides ways that school people can help each other participate in a cycle of inquiry that examines data, teaching practices, and student work as a means of making change. Vol 14 | 5 1998
- Teacher Renewal: Essential in a Time of Change Examines what new and experienced teachers in Essential schools need in the way of professional education and support. Vol 14 | 4 1998
- Democracy and Equity: CES’s Tenth Common Principle Provides ways schools can promote democratic principles and challenge inequity and discrimination in their policies, practices, and pedagogies. Vol 14 | 3 1998
- Demonstrating Student Performance in Essential Schools Presents ways Essential schools are augmenting data from norm-referenced standardized tests to offer richer and more public evidence about student learning. Vol 14 | 2 1998
- What’s ‘Essential’ About Learning in the World of Work? Explores the links between Essential school learning through projects and other authentic contexts and the school-to-work movement’s move to situate more learning in the… Vol 14 | 1 1998
- What Makes an Elementary School ‘Essential’? Looks at what is drawing elementary schools into the Coalition and how the nine Common Principles play out in a younger setting, especially regarding curriculum, assessment and… Vol 13 | 5 1997
- Essential Leadership in the School Change Process Considers what it takes to lead a school through change and offers suggestions and experiences that have helped Essential school leaders find a balance between promoting change and… Vol 13 | 4 1997
- Volume 13.3 Vol 13 | 3 1997
- Looking Collaboratively at Student Work: An Essential Toolkit Explores how loking closely at student work together can help school commuities reflect upon their educational purpose, assess their progress as a school and plan strategies for… Vol 13 | 2 1997
- Networks and Essential Schools: How Trust Advances Learning Shows how building relationships within and across schools can profoundly shift the culture of schooling to one in which teachers create new ways to share and examine their work and to… Vol 13 | 1 1997
- The Arts and Other Languages: From Elective to Essential Reveals what the arts and foreign languages can contribute to improving teaching and learning, designing interdisciplinary curriculum and addressing issues of inclusiveness and… Vol 12 | 5 1996
- Developing Curriculum in Essential Schools Looks at ways to reconcile Essential school ideals about curriculum with the realities of time and teaching and whether teacher-developed curriculum serves students’ learning needs… Vol 12 | 4 1996
- Documenting Whole-School Change in Essential Schools Offers new ideas about what data schools should collect and how they can use it to evaluate their programs and create more meaningful ways to record student progress and hold themselves… Vol 12 | 3 1996
- Using Time Well: Schedules in Essential Schools Explores new ways of conceiving and ordering the school day that work with rather than against the Essential School philosophy and considers what teachers need to plan and use the… Vol 12 | 2 1996
- Information, Literacy, and The Essential School Library Addresses what “learning to learn” looks like and how school librarians can redefine their roles as generalists and information specialists to become partners in collaborative… Vol 12 | 1 1996
- Essential School Pathways: Connecting Across the Grades Explores how teachers, parents and administrators are working together to create a coherent educational program from kindergarten through high school. Vol 11 | 5 1995
- Making the Good School Better: The Essential Question of Rigor Describes strategies and initiatives that Essential schools are using to raise the quality of student work, to increase the range of students expected to do rigorous work and to develop… Vol 11 | 4 1995
- What Research Suggests About Essential School Ideas Looks at historical, sociological, statistical, and cognitive research that informed Essential school ideas and presents several key findings that support Essential school change. Vol 11 | 3 1995
- Less Is More: The Secret of Being Essential Explores the ramifications of this particularly challenging principle; includes approaches to developing a curriculum that embodies “less is more.” Vol 11 | 2 1995
- Empowering Students: Essential Schools’ Missing Link Examines various ways in which students can be involved and supported as schools work toward more student-centered learning. Vol 11 | 1 199501