tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32509240043062696082012-02-01T02:48:58.958-08:00Welcome 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."Jonathan E. Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04079830010505223804noreply@blogger.comBlogger881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250924004306269608.post-33860681805181857082009-01-22T13:49:00.000-08:002009-01-22T13:59:40.075-08:00

Thank you for visiting the Good High School Project blog.  Nearly two thousand unique visitors checked this site out in Fall 2008 as I conducted my unique student shadowing and live-blogging project at 21 different high schools in California, Nevada, and Arizona.  With my particular project having concluded, I am now migrating my blogging work, which will continue to focus on celebrating 21st

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Hello Sonoma AcademyWelcome to my blog; this is my 21st school visit this fall, and I am very happy to be here, and appreciate your welcoming me.    Immediately below is my liveblog of my visit; please know that liveblogging flows in reverse chronological order, with each new entry headed by the time it was posted.   In addition to inviting you to read along, I welcome you to respond: click on

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End of day-As I exited, had a pleasant farewell with Head of School Janet Durgin.   She shared with me her appreciation for Research for Better Teaching, an excellent outfit, and one nugget from RBT, the 10-2 rule.    She explained that by this rule, teachers should strive to not lecture or lead discussion for any longer than ten minutes, and for every ten minutes of presenting, students should

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Hello Crossroads: Welcome to my blog; today is my 20th school visit-student shadow-liveblog this fall.    Thank you for welcoming me to your school.   To read the blog of my visit, scroll to the section just below, but know that the liveblog flows in reverse chronological order with each new entry headed by the time it was posted.  I invite you to to write a comment by clicking on the comment

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1:30Had a very nice lunch (thank you Crossroads) with the Advancement and Upper School directors here, learning about the school's work in recent years to transform the upper level curriculum from an AP to a homegrown advanced studies curriculum (related NYT article).  We discussed the importance of supporting teachers in teaching to their passions-- to their strengths-- honoring who they are and

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Hello Wildwood-- If you are reading along, welcome!   This is my 19th student shadow school visit this fall, and I am very happy to be here, and appreciate your welcoming me.   The liveblog itself is immediately below-- please know that it flows in reverse chronological order, (the norm of live-blogs), with each new entry headed by the time it was posted.    I invite you not just to read but to

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3:00Here now in drama class, a double block, after a very nice lunch with three administrators.   Just before sitting to eat, we chatted with the curriculum director here, who had met this morning with the student council: she told us that she regularly asks the student leaders what impact they wanted to have on the school educational program, and they told her today they wanted more rigor, more

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Hello HTH and HTHI visitors to this site: Immediately below is the liveblog for HTHI that I am writing this morning; please know that liveblogging proceeds chronologically from bottom to top, with each new entry headed by the time it was posted.    I invite you to post a comment by clicking on the comment line just below to the right: respond to something I have written, tell me what you think is

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2:30Back to Biology, not sure I understand exactly how the schedule works, but we are back.   Our teacher begins class saying that this afternoon he will be lecturing, quips that he knows students love learning by lecturing, then defends learning by lecture as a valuable skill for the future, and a good way for the kids to learn what he thinks is really important for them to learn. I am thinking

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Hello High Tech High--Thank you for welcoming me today-- this is my 17th school visit this fall, each of them spent shadowing a student and live-blogging my observations of good practice.  You can read my thoughts in the entry below-- and know that they flow in reverse chronological order, as live-blogs usually do, with each new entry headed by the time it was posted. Please also consider writing

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3:40World Religions, with the school's Director teaching, Brett.  Good spirit and energy for a Monday afternoon; several students working on Rubik's cubes.  Azer tells me with enthusiasm we might "get" to do Socratic seminar today, which he clearly really likes.    Brett checks in with students at class beginning-- is this a busy time?  Yes, the chorus resounds.  Good-- keeps you from being

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Hello Metro High Visitors: Hope you are here to read what I have written about your nice school, and I thank you for welcoming me today.   Immediately below is my live-blog report on what I observed at your school today; it is in, like most live-blogs, reverse chronological order, with each new entry headed by the time it was posted.  I invite you to respond, clicking on the little comment box

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EveningFinished the afternoon with a long, 100 minute conversation with one of Envision's key administrators, Kyle Hartung, who has in a short period of four years been a teacher, school director, and now organization leader.     He told me a lot more about Envision's structure and philosophy, and cited the value of its connection with Stanford's School Redesign Network, something I should learn

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Much upcoming, and some new commentary.1. Upcoming school visits include EnVision's Metro High School (SF) Thursday, Dec. 4; High Tech High Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 8 and 9; and Wildwood School Wed., Dec. 10; and Sonoma Academy Tuesday, Dec. 16.2. Jay Matthews at the Washington Post has returned to the topic of 21st century skills-- regular readers here my remember my response to his cranky

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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 Francisco2. Head-Royce School, Oakland3. College

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Regular readers recall my intent in this project to focus especially on new and young high schools; today I am writing about a high school still in gestation, but a very exciting one nonetheless. Redwood Day School, an outstanding K-8 in Oakland, will open its 9-12 program next year (rolling out one year at time, beginning next year with just a ninth grade). Despite my not having had the chance

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The following is a paste-in of a posting I made to the ISED-Ning, contributing there to an on-line discussion about the significance of this new book, authored by Harvard Business School innovation guru Clayton Christensen (co-authors Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson). The book's subtitle is "How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns," and the thesis is that within 10 years,

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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

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240Kate has a shortened choir class in the last period of the day, and sad as I am to miss it, I remember Kate telling me how terrific the history classes are at Athenian, and so I ask her if maybe we can peek in on a history class. We walk around the lovely campus and duck into an Ancient Civ. class. When we first enter the room, we are not sure there is a teacher here; maybe the teacher is

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Hello Readers: Sharing with you today my delight at being very recently appointed the next Head of School at St. Gregory College Preparatory School in Tucson, AZ, to begin July 1, 2009. St. Gregory is a non-sectarian,  6th through 12th grade independent school, with about 330 students, situated on 20 acres in a central part of the city.   Founded in 1980, it has had great success in the

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Happy Monday: 1.  The most important element of good schooling in the 21st century is the same as in the 19th and 20th centuries-- really it is the same as it always has been from the earliest human societies: the quality of the teacher.   Michelle Rhee, for instance, in Washington DC is putting her eggs in this basket-- she is not obsessing over textbooks nor scripted Open-Court style "

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Apologies, been off-line too long.  Andrew Sullivan writes that blogs are like sharks, they have to keep moving or they die.  I've been traveling extensively the last two weeks-- Tucson, Boston, Seattle-- and so let the project slide.  I am expecting to return to school visiting very soon.  But here are a few quickhits: 1. Had a great conversation with a friend, former school head, and search

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1. Hello everyone. Sorry to be offline for a few days, longer than ever, but I am just back from three great days in Tucson, visiting, as a Head of School candidate, St. Gregory College Prep. Wish me luck; it is a great school! Next week might have to be a slow week too for the blog, as I have more interview visits to Boston and Seattle. And the numbers are growing for the blog; October 16

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Hello IHS community members: Welcome to my blog; thank you for welcoming me to your school.  Immediately below is my liveblog, reporting my observations of the good things happening here in student learning.   HTis is my thirteenth such visit; previous school visits can be viewed by scrolling down or consulting the list of previous posts on the right.     As you read the below, please know that

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3:30Mandarin Class: Before it begins, I speak with the students here for a bit, asking them what they like most about the school.   These kids, ninth graders, are very articulate about the value of the international community: they like very much getting to know students from so many international backgrounds and different cultures;  they like the trips that the school takes to different

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Good morning, I am here today in Stockton, California, at a 2500 student public high school here, Franklin High School.  I am visiting in the school's 15 year old, 500 student IB (International Baccalaureate) program.  Regular readers know I am greatly interested in and attracted to IB, and I did two weeks of training in IB this past summer in New Mexico.   The administration here welcome me

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1.  Nice article this week in EdWeek about the initiatives being undertaken in many states to develop new curricula in 21st century skills development.     The article discusses what is meant by this, pointing out that in this new century a higher order of thinking and problem-solving is required: in critical reading, stronger communicating, and the use of technology.   One state calls teaching

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Hello College Prep: Thank you for welcoming me today; I am here shadowing a junior and blogging about the cool things I see happening in student learning here: "observed best practices."  The liveblog is below; it flows from bottom to top chronologically over the course of the day, and each new entry is headed by the time I posted it.  Please consider responding, by clicking on the comment line

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3:15Last class for the day, my seventh.  AP Biology.  Love some pieces of this course description, including its heading: Adapt, Migrate, or Die!  I also like the statement that "emphasis is placed on the development of college level communication skills such as essay writing and critical thinking."  Great appreciation for learning of key skills for college preparation, and hence de-emphasizing

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Good morning!   Thanks for visiting; I have upcoming visits Thursday to Oakland's College Preparatory School; Friday to Stockton's public high school, Franklin, and its IB program; and Monday to International High School in San Francisco.  1.  I hope others are also paying attention to and enjoying the teacher blogs the NY Times is hosting this school-year.   Great stuff.    On Saturday they

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Here today at a brand new high school, the facility having only opened weeks ago, in Las Vegas, NV.   Well funded, the Adelson School is a K-12 with three divisions, and is headed by an old friend Paul Schiffman.    He was given great support in building a new Jewish middle school and high school to complement a long-standing Jewish elementary school. The campus is nothing short of spectacular:

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Too many of our students are bored in school too much of the time; too many of our students who aren't entirely bored are still only skimming the surface of true engagement. We worry, rightly, about our completely disengaged students, those who are failing or getting along with only a minimum of effort and mastery. We have to worry, however, about another set of students-- those who are doing

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In last night's Presidential debate, Tom Brokaw asked the candidates whether they'd "fund a Manhattan like project that develops [the equivalent of] a nuclear bomb to deal with global energy and alternative energy or should we fund a 100,000 garages across America, the kind of industry and innovation that developed Silicon Valley?" Great question: my answer is the latter, and I think those of us

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Here today at New Technology High School in Sacramento, a 5 year old charter school which was written up in May's Educational Leadership issue on Reshaping High Schools.  I arrive at about 9, and students are happily milling in the courtyard, readying for the day;  I am warmly welcomed by the administrators.   They enjoy a late start Monday, so teachers can have professional time from 7:45 to 9:

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1. A shoutout to you my readers: thanks for visiting. Thursday, the day I was at Tesseract and the day after I was at Head-Royce, we set a new record for hits in a day: 70! Keep on coming; Monday I am live-blogging at New Technology HS in Sacramento, and Friday at a new school in Las Vegas: The Adelson School. 2. Love this blog, from an Iowan educator, Angela Maiers. In one recent posting she

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Hello Tesseract:Thank you for welcoming me today; it is a pleasure to be here. I flew in from Oakland this morning for this opportunity. The entry below this one is the liveblog itself; I will be updating every 30-60 minutes with new postings, and know that it reads bottom to top chronologically, with each new entry headed by the time it was posted.I would love it too, if you are reading, to

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2:30Humanities class; we open with a puppet performance by three students.   It is a creation myth, the dramatization, with a dialogue between a god figure and the earth itself. After the 5 minute presentation by three students, the teacher asks them to tell the story of their play, and explicate it.  Students are now writing in their journals-- usually these are "warm-ups," but today, coming

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Hello Head Royce: I am very happy to be here; thank you for welcoming me.  I am spending the day shadowing students and taking note of the great things happening here in teaching and learning.   The live-blog report is immediately below; know that a live-blog runs chronologically backwards, so you read from bottom to top, with each new entry beginning under the time it was posted.  I also

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2:30Here now in Neurobiology; great lab space with lots of room for both seats in front and plenty of working lab space.   Class begins with students working on questions posted on the board: "What do areas IT & MT mediate? How does consciousness work?"  Students are immediately engaged, focused but not silent, with thinking and writing about these questions.  Love how it sets the tone right from

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* Visited today at the new site of San Francisco Friends School, where they have renovated an enormous 100 year old Levi Strauss factory.   High ceilings, natural light, and a sense of history blended with modern retrofit construction make for a wonderful school setting.   Head of School Cathy Hunter invited me to visit and "shadowblog" for a day, which I am eager to do in the weeks to come. *

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Hello Bay School: Thank you for welcoming me today; I will be here all day liveblogging on the great things I see happening here in teaching and, more importantly, learning.   Follow along, reading the entry below, remembering that live-blogs flow in reverse chronology, from bottom to top, with each new entry headed by its posting time. Also, please consider posting your own commentary--

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3:30Luis is kind enough to help me to a humanities/government class for the second half of the period.   Students are discussing very acutely the debate Friday, expressing disappointment that the candidates limited themselves so narrowly to topics of Iraq and the Middle East.   Now students are shifting gears, writing on their laptops answers to questions on the board about the effects of

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Mark Edmundson has long influenced my thinking: he is one of the best of a breed of college professors in academic subjects who really think hard about good teaching practice. Conceptually he and Gerald Graff have a great deal in common: absorbed in academic controversy, excited about teaching the controversies, reflective about how to engage students in critical thinking and analysis. One of

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Hello Urban-- I am here visiting and shadowing today-- below are my observations of your good high school. Please use the comment box to the right, below, to respond to what I have written, or to tell me what you think is good 21st century education, or how high school education needs to change in this new era, or what you think are the good and best things happening at Urban school. Thanks!

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8:15Back at Urban this morning, with, as always, great appreciation to the welcoming hospitality of its administration.   I say back because I was here with teachers and administrators for three days in August, for Howard Levin and the Urban faculty's brilliant technology integration symposium.  My learning those three days, both about technology integration and about authentic education, was

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Hello CART: If you are visiting my blogspot for the first time, welcome; thank you so much for welcoming me. Below are two postings, in reverse chronological order, sharing my observations of the school today.   You are invited and encouraged to post your own thoughts-- respond to something I have said, or write what you think is most interesting, most innovative, or most excellent about CART.  

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3:30We have moved into the English classroom adjacent to the lab for the english period of the three hour lab.  We begin with a rocking and silly video projected, Quack, which features vocabulary words, each vividly characterized with music, dialogue, and many evocative or dramatic images for about 60 seconds.  Today, it is ornate, austere, cerebral, incommodious, noisome, cacophony, veritable,

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8:30 I drove to CART from Martinez this morning; it is here in Clovis, right next to Fresno, to visit here at a charter high school jointly associated with Fresno and Clovis.  The school was featured in a very interesting article written by teachers here published last spring in ASCD's Educational Leadership, the issue on Reshaping High Schools.  More on that article later.   (If you are reading

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Excellent article in the Times Sunday about a fabulous Philosophy Professor at Auburn University, an article I think has implications for teaching in all subjects. Professor Jolley tells us in the article that "philosophy can't be taught or learned like other academic subjects." (I quibble-- I think most other academic subject should be taught more like his alternate approach for philosophy

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Nice article today, out of Florida, by a Science education expert.    She says that new initiatives like NEON, the National Ecological Observatory Network, are seeking to track and monitor all kinds of biodiversity across the country, and schools can completely participate, having their students provide data streams to the project.  She applauds this kind of real-world science education, and

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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

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3:05At the end of the last class, my guide for that period said to me he had one last important point-- he said he had been thinking about it, and he wanted me to know that the most important thing for a teacher to have, that it made all the difference, was "passion."  2:55Drama class, in the assembly theater.  Class begins with a yoga exercise, which is clearly good for the kids, and makes all

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As a next generation (b.1966) school head myself, I was particularly taken with the comments pasted in below by a passionate and innovative school technology director-- but of course, birth-year has nothing really to do with it. All it does take is a commitment to, and reasonably good knowledge of, what 21st century education needs to be:Once again I am thrilled to be associated with the

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First in what will be a series of of suggested other blogs to check out or follow.First, from Education Weekly (EdWeek), is the dialogue blog of Diane Ravitch and Deborah Meierhttp://www.deborahmeier.com/. Their books have long influenced-- Meier's Central Park East Secondary School and her The Power of their Ideas are exemplars of Sizerian, essential schooling. Ravitch is the best of progressive

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Mark Desjardins, headmaster of Holland Hall, emailed the following in response to my posting on the High School Engagement Survey:"Great work on the blog in regards to HSSSE. We are doing it in a fewweeks at HH which will give us 5 years of data. I am excited to see wherewe are today in regards to engagement. We have made major curriculum changes inthe past 4 years and my thesis is that our

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As we have been discussing, Friedman tells us that no aptitude it more important for 21st century success than innovation, and this theme is a common one, found in Pink (he calls it design, and "high concept" thinking more broadly), in Gardner (the creating mind), and Wagner (the survival skill of curiosity and imagination).Kenneth Robinson was a keynote speaker at NAIS NYC 2008, and his book Out

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In a previous post on testing, I wrote that although I heartily endorse expanding our use of data-driven decisionmaking in schools, we must be more sophisticated and deliberate about the data we collect and use. Bubble tests are only going to capture a small portion of the value we add as schools to student learning; the AP test for instance, as pointed out by Tony Wagner, has serious

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The student paper at University High School emailed me recently, with very fine interview questions, following up on my visit there last week. Here is the Q&A from that interview, including my own first, first of many I anticipate, stab at providing my own list of 21st c. aptitudes.1. In a nutshell, what is 21st century education?21st century is education that recognizes and reflects the fact

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Prudence is not the most attractive of words, and it is not one I find in wide currency-- and certainly haven't found it in any of the lists of 21st century aptitudes I have been surveying.    I know it partly went out of favor thanks to Dana Carvey's frequent mocking of the first President Bush-- "wouldn't be prudent."  But David Brooks, whom I find a great guide, writes today about prudence,

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Good high schools, in this writer's opinion, are schools where there is regular, ongoing, innovation in teaching and the educational program more broadly.    Recently I posted on the implications of Estrin's Innovation Gap for what and how our students should be learning; today I want to write on what it means for our schools, faculties and administrators. When I reflect on my own ten years

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Previously I referred to Friedman's New York Times article on the importance, centrality even, of the skill of innovation for the 21st century. Friedman pointed readers to this book, by Judy Estrin, which I think is somewhat unfortunately titled Closing the Innovation Gap.   The title doesn't work: first, the word innovation immediately follows closing, and by the time you get to the word gap,

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Hello UHS community members.    The blog entry below this one is the liveblog for today-- you are invited to read along, and remember that in liveblogging, the chronology goes from bottom to top. You are also invited to use the little comment box, just to the lower right here, to respond.  Respond to something I have written, respond by telling me what you think are the best ways for students to

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3:00Attending a student council subcommittee meeting, planning for CityDay.  This is a signature UHS day, it would seem, and planned by students, from what I gather; students spend the day interacting with the city, serving it, interacting with it, learning from it.   Seems like excellent experiential, memorable, learning experiences, that also support student leadership development.   Right now

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Great conversation published last winter between Dan Pink and Tom Friedman, two of the key guiding influences for this blog.  Check it out here.   Reading it, it is easy to infer some of Friedman's biggest emphases for 21st century success. What is required is the capacity to Synthesize, Navigate, Integrate, Imagine, and Write.   There are other elements too; curiosity is important, as is an

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I think most of us recognize the important role of data in decision making today, though this is one educator who thinks it has to done in ways reconciling of the importance of the qualitative assessment  and the significance of the unmeasurable.   I have written about this previously here.But what data?   Standardized testing is the near-universal default for what is called measured "student

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In this blogger's view, 21st century education embraces in educationally effective ways all the digital tools available, and few tools are more widely available than cell phones and now smartphones. This shouldn't mean open season on students making and taking calls and text messaging in class, but just as we allow students to use pencils in good ways and not bad (i.e. throwing them as darts),

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The Tucson based Partnership for 21st c. Skills outfit published today an attractive (a bit glossy) overview and call to arms, entitled 21st Century Skills, Education and Competitiveness: a Resource and Policy GuideIt doesn't add anything new, really, to what is already on their website-- it is a marketing piece as much as anything. But nonetheless, here are a few observations.What is driving the

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Thanks to Mark Salkind at Urban for this recommendation, and it is spot-on.   Pope's book is in large part a report on her student shadowing, so it is especially useful that way for me and this project.   She does it in a very different way-- shadowing five students, multiple (many) times, all at the same school, and watching for how they are managing to "do" school.  Like Pope, I too aim to be

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Click here for a direct link to both read and post comments regarding the Drew Liveblog. 

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230Advanced Art class; the school-day's last period.  9 girls and 1 guy-- again, an art gender imbalance, I wonder why?  Anybody care to speculate?    Music playing, assignments made, and students are working.    Reading about best practice, several writers have advocated that all subjects should be taught more like art: teachers do demonstrations, give clear examples of excellence in subject

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Check out Thomas Friedman in the Times today; the primary focus of education in the 21st century, says the author of The World is Flat, should be innovation.    He also recommends a new book, Closing the Innovation Gap, which I am ordering promptly.   Let's add that to the focus: what are we doing in good high schools to teach students to innovate? Read yesterday a book suggested by my friend

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I was glad to see Wagner emphasize classroom visiting as the key way to evaluate educational excellence.   "The important question is 'What's going on in classrooms?'"    Wagner's approach is a bit different from my own in this year's project; whereas I intend to spend days shadowing students, Wagner uses what he calls "learning walks:" several hours visiting 8-10 classes for ten minutes each,

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Feeling like I have been lagging a bit-- this book will now (and forever?) be the first book to suggest to anyone looking for a guiding text on 21st century learning.   I still love Dan Pink, and think his Whole New Mind is a lot of fun to read and open your eyes on the topic, but Wagner really tightly ties Friedman/Pink thinking about how the world is changing, and how are proficiencies need to

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Aptitudes may not be the best catch-all term; each writer labels them a little differently, but we now have a growing group of writers posing what they believe is required for success in the new century, in this new age.   Pink calls them senses, Gardener minds, Wagner survival skills.   Here they are, in no particular order of their publication: Pink, 2005, Six Senses"In the Conceptual Age, we

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It was 1996, and some education school professors were given the opportunity to put their ideas into practice--to start their own magnet school within Chicago public schools-- which they gave the clunky name of Best Practice High School.This is their story-- Rethinking High School: Best Practices in Teaching, Learning and Leadership. The value of the book is limited-- it is not at all an original

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completed1. Drew School, San Francisco, Monday, September 82. SF University HS, Friday, September 123. Branson School, Monday, September 224. CART (Center for Advanced Research and Technology) H.S. , Fresno, CA: Wed. Sept. 245. Urban School, San Francisco, Friday, September 266. Bay School, Monday, September 297. Head Royce School, Oakland, Wednesday October 18. Tesseract School, Paradise Valley,

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Glad you asked.   I would of course be the last person to suggest it is any one thing-- and I mean to use my website and blog to advance the conversation about what it is, and never to finally answer it.   Even this answer, as posted here, will change and evolve often.  But let me offer a starting place answer: 21st century K-12 education (or, in my shorthand, the lovely palindrome 21k12) is

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Dan Pink is hot these days within NAIS-- the keynote speaker in March for the annual convention, he was excellent.  His book is a very user-friendly introduction of what to think about when considering what the fast changing world will demand of us in the years to come. The book, A Whole New Mind, has two subtitles: first was Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age, and then the

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Classroom Instruction that Works, the book is called, and it is a very valuable primer, it could be a terrific school-wide bible and centerpiece for referencing what is research based teaching excellence. It consists of very good, solid, meta-analysis of hundreds of research reports. Comparing and Contrasting, Quality Note-taking, Recognizing Student Achievement, Promoting Student Effort,

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Many will wonder are schools selected for visiting? Well, first and most simply, they are coming from my own first-hand knowledge of Bay Area schools, schools where I already know administrators whom I can prevail upon to welcome me.Second, I will be expanding my outreach to schools which I know of to have "good" qualities worthy of observing. Examples would be IB schools, schools featured in

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I've long been a Graff fan--I thought his Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education the best treatment of how to teach the so-called Culture Wars, to bring them right into the classroom and make them part of an engaging curriculum. His latest isn't as good-- Clueless in Academe makes a fine, but small argument, and might have been better in a shorter

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As noted, Michael Thompson and this book are major influences on my project.Michael has long been an inspiration-- there is no better counselor about children's social/emotional lives. Michael, (and I call him that because I did get to know him well as a member of his small group at a week-long conference in 2000), blends a vivid memory of his own childhood with an acute perception of the trials

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What are the goals and purposes of the school visits, student shadowing, and blog?The primary goal is to share observations of contemporary best practices of good, 21st century high schools, and invite feedback and on-line conversation about them, in order to better reflect upon and advocate for 21st c. K-12 education, the mission of my website www.21k12.net. More personally, I have the aim of

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These are the questions I will be using to frame my viewing and observations on visits to schools, and the questions I will be answering, with positive examples, in my blog entries reporting on my visits.In what ways is this school demonstrating teaching and learning in the form of research based ‘best practices' (with particular reference to the research of Wiggins, Marzano, and Bransford)?What

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Blog entries coming in the next few months: Good to Great, Jim Collins, Rob Evans, and Goodness in High SchoolsSherman Alexie's wonderful Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time IndianReshaping High School: Education Leadership's recent terrific issue, and the lessons thereinGrant Wiggins, Understanding and Schooling by Design, and the Good High SchoolBob Marzano's Classroom Instruction that Works,

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[In a later post, I want to return to goodness as the supposed "enemy of greatness;" for now, my attention is on Lawrence-Lightfoot's pre-Collins embrace of goodness as indeed, a very good thing.]"Consciousness of imperfections:" probably the most famous line from this book is in the opening paragraph of her conclusion, which teaches us that the consistent element of widely varying "good schools"

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As noted in the heading, this book, already 25 years old, is an important inspiration for this project (important enough to have its name appropriated!). Lawrence-Lightfoot is an inspiration to many-- and rightfully so. I especially am enamored of her book entitled Respect. The Good High School, published 1983, offers "portraits" (her artful term) of six schools: two suburban public, two

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Greetings and welcome. In this, my first post, let me outline my project for the next few months. As a key element of a year dedicated to professional growth, I aim to visit a series of exemplary high schools, ideally by shadowing a student for a day, and in the course of doing so, report my observations and reflections in this blog. Interspersed with my postings on school-visits will be

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