The Good High School Project, 2008-09

Welcome to The Good High School blog. In part an homage to Lawrence-Lightfoot's seminal book of the same name, and in the spirit of the student shadowing in Thompson's Pressured Child, this blog intends to offer an ongoing reflection upon, and conversation about, secondary school best practices in the 21st century. As Thompson says about his project shadowing students: "A critical part of our job as educators is to understand a child's daily experience in school... Let's go back to school."

11.18.2008

Athenian Live-Blog: Respond Here

Hello Athenian, and thank you for welcoming me today.

I am spending the day shadowing a student in the 11th grade, and reporting on my observations of what is especially effective for student learning. If you are reading along, please know that a "live-blog" which is below flows in a kind of reverse-chronology, bottom to top, with each new entry headed by the approximate time it was posted.

I invite you to post your own thoughts by clicking on the comment box just below to the right. Respond to something I have written, add to my understanding of Athenian, tell me what you think is best about learning at Athenian, or share your own ideas about what is most important for secondary schooling in the 21st century.
Thanks-- Jonathan

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I've enjoyed reading your observations about your visit today. Thank you for sharing.; November 18, 2008 at 3:42 PM
Anonymous said...: You came to my french class.; November 19, 2008 at 5:21 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.