Leadership back issues from May 2006:
Sending a message to the future: high schools launch students into adult life.(To our readers)
May 01, 2006; ... Dear Colleague: In recent years, our high schools have become the focus of wide-ranging reform efforts, all with the goal of providing each student with a rigorous, relevant education that fosters meaningful relationships with the adults around them. Why such a sense ...
Leaders for high school reform: school leaders must be involved in reforming our high schools so they can help all students become productive adults who are equipped with 21st century skills.
May 01, 2006; ... High School Reform is the current hot topic among politicians, business leaders and educational consultants. The focus has shifted from elementary schools to high schools with a strong sense of urgency. As educational leaders we have the opportunity now to lead the reform of high schools, ...
Bridging alternative and regular education: a look at how the state standards link the career and academic worlds shows educators how other key linkages could be created in our schools.
May 01, 2006; ... This year, our California State Board of Education approved a group of about 5,000 Career Technical Standards covering areas as varied as E-commerce, animal science, food purchasing and wardrobe planning. Someone--most likely many "someones"--with a stroke of farsighted as well ...
High school transformation: core principles: partners of the National High School Alliance have developed an action plan that provides research-based strategies for creating lasting change.
May 01, 2006; ... As influential voices from the nation's public and private sectors call for an urgent re-assessment of the traditional, comprehensive American public high school, leaders at all levels have important roles to play in the challenge put forth by the National High School Alliance and other ...
Professional learning communities: reigniting passion and purpose: when educators focus on why some students are not learning, rather than on pedagogy, the fundamental purpose of the education profession is revived.
May 01, 2006; ... Every year across America, thousands of new teachers enter the classroom full of passion and purpose, excited about making a difference in the lives of children. But as years wear on, passion and purpose are all too often replaced by complacency and cynicism. The Capistrano ...
Integrating two approaches; "Making the Grade".(Integrating: Differentiated Instruction Understanding by Design)(Book review)
May 01, 2006; ... "Understanding by Design," developed by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, has a focus on what is taught and how it is assessed. "Differentiated Instruction," as described by Carol Ann Tomlinson, has a focus on who, where and how we teach. These two approaches, with their obvious ...
A new kind of middle school: through coaching, professional development and collaboration, this school is replacing passive instruction with a more dynamic and persuasive instructional program.
May 01, 2006; ... What does it take to successfully teach in an urban middle school? We are trying to figure it out at Will C. Wood in Sacramento through instructional observations and analysis of student achievement assessment data. Will C. Wood is a Cohort IV Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) ...
Educational options: the new tradition: no longer the stepchild of the K-12 system, educational options have become an integral part of the comprehensive high schools' array of school choices.
May 01, 2006; ... Educational options, formerly known as "alternative education," have long been a quietly unassuming part of public education. Often the stepchild of the K-12 system, continuation and independent studies schools--as well as an array of county schools, community day schools and others--were ...
Adult education's contributions to society evolve as our needs change.
May 01, 2006; ... Public adult education in California is celebrating its 150-year anniversary. The memoirs of John Swett, California's fourth superintendent of public instruction, record that in 1856 he taught an evening class sponsored by the San Francisco Board of Education in the basement of St. Mary's ...
The role of dialogue in principal support: when principals conduct organized conversations about the complexities of school leadership, they can resolve difficult issues and offer each other support in a safe atmosphere.
May 01, 2006; ... Sue walked in and slammed her day planner down. This is the last conversation I will be attending because I am quitting my job and this group today." The other principals, sitting at a round table, in a comfortable room, on a private college campus, did not respond with shock or awe. ...