The Good High School Project, 2008-09: Branson-- Please Respond Here

9.22.2008

Branson-- Please Respond Here

Hello Branson community members-- If you are following along, welcome! Please remember the liveblog post below will be updated every 30-45 minutes, and that it flows chronologically from bottom to top.

Also, please consider posting a response. Respond to something I write, or share with me what you think 21st century education is, or what you think Branson does best that you want others to know about!

Thanks for welcoming me to your school.

-Jonathan

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Anonymous said...: this is a great snapshot of a typical day in the life of a branson student; September 22, 2008 at 12:21 PM

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Sources and Resources

Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, The Good High School: Portraits of Character and Culture (1983).

Michael Thompson, The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Find Success in School and Life (2004), and other works.

Pat Bassett, NAIS President. Articles, Powerpoints, Blog. Link.

Grant Wiggins, Understanding by Design and Schooling by Design.

Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need-- and What We Can Do About it.

Partnership for 21st century Skills. http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

Howard Levin and the Urban School faculty and administration, 'Making the Laptop Disappear' and 'Integrated Technology Symposium,' workshops.

Ted Sizer's Horace Trilogy and the Coalition of Essential Schools

Marzano, et.al.; Classroom Instruction that Really Works and School Leadership that Really Works.

Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age

The International Baccalaureate Organization

Howard Gardner, Five Minds for the Future

David Conley. Toward a More Comprehensive Conception of College Readiness. Gates Foundation Paper, online.

Educational Leadership, Reshaping High Schools issue, May 2008

Denise Clark Pope, Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students.

Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy. Judy Estrin, 2009.

Research Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning: Insights from a Neurologist and Classroom Teacher. Judy Willis, M.D. ASCD, 2006.

Brain Matters: Translating Research into Classroom Practice. Patricia Wolfe, ASCD, 2001.

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. John Bransford, et. al.

Teaching with the Brain in Mind. Eric Jensen, ASCD.

Rethinking High School: Best Practice in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership. Daniels, Bizar, and Zemelman.

The Game of School: Why We All Play it, How it Hurts Kids, and What it will Take to Change it. Robert Fried, J-B, 2006.

Growing into Goodness: Essays on Quaker Education. Paul Lacey.

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9.22.2008

Branson-- Please Respond Here

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