![]() Mentor, making a relevant contribution to the community. The chosen question leads not only to a written report but theĭevelopment of a related product, created in collaboration with a For the senior project, the student first identifiesĪn area of interest and then a related research question. The senior project is supported by a year-long course called Mission Hill), each student must also develop a senior project in theirįinal year. Prepare at key moments in their early years at Parker (similar to In addition to portfolio exhibitions that students must School relies on portfolios and exhibitions to assess student progress.īecause Parker School students are older, the standards are more Grade seven through high school graduation, drawing from over 40 towns (9) The Parker School serves students from Several colleagues (8) in 1995 as one of the State's firstĬommonwealth charter schools. In Devens, Massachusetts, founded by Nancy Faust Sizer, Ted Sizer, and Presentation skills and because an acceptable portfolio requiresĬritical thinking skills, daily classroom work folds oral expression andĬritical thinking into "the basics" in a seamless manner.Īnother example is The Francis W. (3) Evidence of basic competency as measured by aīecause a successful exhibition requires well developed oral (2) Evidence of mastery of appropriate mathematical terms and facts (the Number sense, data and statistics, geometry, and patterns and functions. (1) A portfolio of four problems students have solved atĪppropriate levels of mathematical skill, one in each of the strands: For example, the requiredĮvidence for Mathematics, as posted on the school's website, is as Student work must meet demanding criteria. Problems, which are carefully selected and placed in a portfolio. The student's actual work, such as essays, lab reports, and math The exhibitions are evidence-based, consisting of "Beyond the Classroom" (documented learning experiences One of the school's six domains of learning: History, LiteratureĪnd Writing, The Arts, Mathematics, Science and Technology, and The student presents and defends work that he or she has completed in ![]() Students, parents, and outside community members. Work in six formal presentations, called exhibitions, to teachers, (6)īefore graduating from the school, each student must present his or her Sizer's CES colleague Deborah Meier as a Boston Pilot School inġ995 and serves students from kindergarten through grade eight. Mission Hill Elementary School in Roxbury was founded by (5) For two public schools in Massachusetts, this principle is alive and Students' demonstration that they can do important things." Literature as "demonstration of mastery" and "the "Diploma by exhibition," also described in early CES Number Six among the Ten Common Principles is Places, instrumental adoption in others) illuminates the central role ofĬontext in Sizer's school reform agenda and, more generally, theĪn exploration of the path of just one of the Common Principles This bifurcation of Sizer's legacy (fidelity to principles in some To be "implemented" with no clear rationale. Performance-based assessment-and have calcified into "models" Sometimes been reduced to instrumentalities-advisory, block scheduling, Policy discussion, collided and combined with many other reform agendas,Īnd re-surfaced in the world of practice in unpredictable ways.ĭisconnected from their animating context, the Common Principles have Intended purpose and proven remarkably resilient over many years.Īt the same time, the Common Principles have entered education ![]() (4) In this arena, the Common Principles have served their Principles and the CES network, a source of learning and politicalĬlout. Such schools, connected by theĬoalition of Essential Schools (CES), (3) have found, in the Common Principles have provided guidance for the founding of new schools and Vision of democratic localism (See Michael Katz), (2) the Common Wide and varied impact on American K-12 education-deep in some placesĪnd much less clear in others. In the years since, the Common Principles have had a High School, (1) were intended as a rallying point for school reform andĪ kind of constitution for exemplary school practice as Theodore R. The publication of Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American ![]() Which grew out of the findings of A Study of High Schools and followed The Coalition of Essential Schools' Common Principles (1984), APA style: The centrality of context: Ted Sizer and the high flying adventure of common principle six.The centrality of context: Ted Sizer and the high flying adventure of common principle six." Retrieved from MLA style: "The centrality of context: Ted Sizer and the high flying adventure of common principle six." The Free Library. ![]()
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