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."

12.01.2008

Representative Student Shadowing Live-Blogs

Click on any of the following to see representative student shadow live-blogs. Know that, in the typical format of a live-blog, the flow in reverse chronology over the course of the day, with each new entry headed by the time it was posted. Scroll to the bottom of each entry, and then read down from each new time heading.

1. Bay School, San Francisco

2. Head-Royce School, Oakland

3. College Preparatory School, Oakland

4. Urban School, San Francisco

5. CART, Center for Advanced Research and Technology, Fresno

6. New Technology High School, Sacramento (regular chronology, top to bottom)

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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.