Coolest School in America

How Small Learning Communities Are Changing Everything

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

481 kr

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Beskrivning

Imagine a school with no classrooms, bells, or textbooks where students work at their own pace, are not graded, and are able to decide what to study. Have you ever heard of a school where teachers have control of the learning program, the hiring and retention of personnel, and are responsible for the success of the school? This book, based on a little school in a rural town of Minnesota, describes the creation of and development of learning communities that are changing the conversation about what schools can be and do. The book is divided into three sections: the founding of the Minnesota New Country School, a world renowned small learning community that created a student and teacher ownership model that is being replicated, collected essays by extended community members, contributing consultants, and interested parties that have been influenced by and have influenced the development of new learning communities based on the model, results from some of the learning communities. For teachers, administrators, school board members, parents, or any educator interested in taking reform to another level.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-12-17
Mått:139 x 230 x 14 mm
Vikt:268 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781578861866

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Pedagogisk metodik inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

Doug Thomas has been the director of the Gates-EdVisions Project since the reception of the grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to replicate the MNCS and EdVisions model. Walter Enloe is a teacher in Hamline University's Graduate School of Education. He has been a consultant with EdVisions since 2000. Ron Newell is presently working with the replication efforts of the Gates-EdVisions Project. Previously, he taught high school history and social studies for 25 years.

Recensioner i media

...[shares] lessons learned while organizing the EdVisions cooperative system that gives teachers control of the learning program, hiring of personnel, and most of the budget.

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 Foreword by Dennis LittkyPart 2 Introduction by Ron NewellPart 3 Part 1: The Founding and Development of the Minnesota New Country SchoolChapter 4 1. Little Did We KnowChapter 5 2. Putting Ideas to WorkChapter 6 3. Student Ownership: Teacher OwnershipChapter 7 4. The EdVisions Project Approach: Facilitating Student ChoicePart 8 Part 2: Building the Learning CommunityChapter 9 5. Building a Learning Community: The Conscious Pursuit of an IdeaChapter 10 6. Democratic CirclesChapter 11 7. Experiential Learning: Why Project Based Learning WorksChapter 12 8. Teaching Excellence through Place-Based ProjectsPart 13 Part 3: Some Results of the Learning CommunitiesChapter 14 9. MNCS Graduates: Telling Lived StoriesChapter 15 10. Constituting a Democratic Learning Community: The Avalon ExperienceChapter 16 11. Why Are These Schools Cool? Voices of the Students and ParentsPart 17 Afterword by Doug ThomasPart 18 IndexPart 19 About the Editors