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- College Admissions and the Essential School Demonstrates through conversations with college admissions officers and high school personnel how some colleges are accepting Essential school students even without the traditional… Vol 10 | 5 1994
- Starting a New Essential School: What It Shows About Change Examines the struggles of planning and opening an innovative school and suggests some similarities and differences with established schools undergoing change. Vol 10 | 4 1994
- Technology in the Essential School: Making Change in the Information Age Looks at key areas of Essential school change to see how technology can speed progress; includes technology tips for school people and a resource list for technology and learning. Vol 10 | 3 1994
- How the National Standards Debate Affects the Essential School Explores the issue of setting meaningful standards and describes the role Essential schools can play in higher-level decision making; includes a checklist to evaluate state standards… Vol 10 | 2 1994
- Teacher Education in the Essential School: The University-School Partnership Discusses the benefits of placing student teachers in schools involved in reform and describes two programs that integrate teacher education and Essential schooling. Vol 10 | 1 1994
- Essential Collaborators: Parents, School, and Community Cites experiences from three Essential schools to suggest how to involve the community in the process of change and how to get the community and its schools to work together. Vol 9 | 5 1993
- What’s Essential? Integrating the Curriculum in Essential Schools Examines what it means to integrate curriculum across the disciplines and explores some of the difficulties and political implications; includes sample curricula from several schools. Vol 9 | 4 1993
- “So Now What?”-Managing the Change Process Presents a framework and various approaches for managing organizational change and getting people to work together; includes resources for developing successful change strategies. Vol 9 | 3 1993
- What Works, What Doesn’t; Lessons from Essential School Reform Sets forth more than 20 hard-earned lessons and advice from veterans of Essential school reform about how-and how not-to approach school change. Vol 9 | 2 1993
- The Essential School Principal: A Changing Role in a Changing School Illuminates the multidimensional roles of Essential school principals and suggests ways to balance effective leadership with participatory decision making. Vol 9 | 1 1993
- Essential Schools’ ‘Universal Goals’:How Can Heterogeneous Grouping Help? Offers a range of approaches in teaching methods and curriculum for making heterogeneous grouping work for students at all levels. Vol 8 | 5 1992
- Essential Schools and State Systems: How Is the Climate Changing? Explores how state education policies affect reform efforts and suggests some strategies for changing schools when policies do not support reform; includes some examples of far-sighted policy… Vol 8 | 4 1992
- Math and Science in the Essential School Portrays the benefits and the obstacles inherent in integrating math and science; includes examples of several successfully integrated math and science programs. Vol 8 | 3 1992
- The Essential Conversation: Getting It Started, Keeping It Going Offers techniques-including key questions-for starting a school-wide “conversation” on reform and keeping it going to promote whole-school participation in change. Vol 8 | 2 1992
- Taking Stock: How Are Essential Schools Doing? “Takes stock” of how well Coalition reform efforts are going; includes preliminary figures on Essential school successes and questions to ask in assessing progress. Vol 8 | 1 1992
- Creating a Climate for Change: Essential Schools in Louisville Examines how one large urban-suburban school district, under a reform-minded superintendent, encouraged schools and staff to explore new ideas and practices. Vol 7 | 5 1991
- Behavior in a Thoughtful School: The Principle of Decency Looks at how the climate in two Essential schools affects both teachers and students and identifies characteristics of a decent school; includes one school’s model for student decision making. Vol 7 | 4 1991
- Breaking the Barriers to Change: A Fall Forum Special Report Presents strategies offered by Essential school practitioners in workshops dealing with curriculum, assessment, heterogeneous grouping, leadership, and resistant teachers. Vol 7 | 3 1991
- Practice into Theory: Teachers Coaching Teachers Introduces a practice-based approach to professional development in which teachers coach one another to achieve classroom and school change. Vol 7 | 2 1991
- Are Advisory Groups Essential? What Do They Do, How Do They Work? Describes the powerful role that advisory groups can play in personalizing students’ educational experiences and improving the tone of a school; includes suggestions on organizing advisory groups. Vol 7 | 1 1991
- What Students Say about Essential Schools Voices students’ ideas about the role that personalization plays in their learning and about how attending an Essential school affects their motivation and learning. Vol 6 | 4 1990
- Performance and Exhibitions: The Demonstration of Mastery Examines performance-based assessment-what it looks like, what it measures, how it is graded, how standards can be applied; includes examples and ways to implement and evaluate them. Vol 6 | 3 1990
- Educational Policy and the Essential School Explores how Essential schools have progressed in spite of apparent obstacles from state and district policies; includes a checklist for dealing with policies that conflict with Essential school… Vol 6 | 2 1990
- At the Five-Year Mark: The Challenge of Being Essential An interview with Ted Sizer, the Coalition’s founder, about what he and others at the Coalition learned the first five years’ work with Essential schools. Vol 6 | 1 1990
- Asking the Essential Questions: Curriculum Development Examines why curriculum should be organized around thoroughness instead of coverage, questions instead of answers; includes a guide for using essential questions in class. Vol 5 | 5 1989
- Scheduling the Essential School Provides strategies schools have used to create new schedules to enhance learning; includes sample schedules from three schools. Vol 5 | 4 1989
- Getting Started in an Essential School Program Describes school start-up experiences to address such questions as, What are the first steps? Must the whole school take part? How will we find and maintain support? Vol 5 | 3 1989
- Teaching in the Essential School Addresses concerns about teaching in an Essential school, particularly about becoming a “generalist” and about designing interdisciplinary assignments. Vol 5 | 2 1989