New Horizons for Learning Journal: Summer 2002

The Journal editor shares some thoughts about principles to keep in mind as we focus on bringing about positive changes in education.

Beyond the Rhetoric of the Achievement Gap: Dr. Stephen Fink; The co-director of the University of Washington's Center for Leadership addresses one of today's foremost challenges in education.

Teaming With Purpose: Unleashing the Potential: Andrew L. Rogers; A school principal shares research and his experiences with teaming in a middle school.

The Interdisciplinary Project Model: A Workable Response to the Challenges of Multicultural Education in Our Nation's Secondary Schools: Jere Mendelsohn and Frederick J. Baker; The authors share some successful ways to teach culturally diverse populations.

Global Village School: Lessons in Peace, Diversity and Social Change: Marsha K. Chandler; How the Global Village School developed its program to help students to learn social awareness and personal responsibility.

Playing, Learning, and Being Inspired: Charlotte Beall; The Director of Exhibits and Education of the Seattle Children's Museum describes its rich, interactive educational program.

Nobody's Coming To Save Us: Barbara Mick; The principal of a small rural school describes her school's transformative experiences with inclusion.

Acceleration, Not Remediation: Closing the Achievement Gap with AVID Strategies: Robert Gira; How an international educational reform program is helping to close the achievement gap.

A former education reporter and new school board member reviews what he has learned about the potential of small schools.

GIRAFFE OF THE MONTH

We asked the folks at The Giraffe Project to let us share stories about some of the heroes they've discovered quietly sticking their necks out to make the world a better place. This month, The Giraffe Project shares the story of Faye and Frank Clarke of Long Beach.

Recommended Reading

The Power of Partnership: Riane Eisler
Making Technology Standards Work for You—A Guide for School Administrators: Susan Brooks-Young
National Educational Standards for Teachers—Preparing Teachers to Use Technology

NETS•S Curriculum Series—Multidisciplinary Units for Grades 3–5

Why America's Children Can't Think: Creating Independent Minds for the 21st Century: Peter Kline

New on the Bulletin Board:

Harvard Graduate School of Education's WIDE WORLD Online Learning Center for Educators: This summer they offer "Using Web Tools in the Classroom," a course that explores how to use web-based technology to promote student understanding.
Education Week's Technology Counts 2002: Their fifth annual fifty state report on educational technology focuses on how state and district e-learning initiatives -- such as online teaching and testing, virtual schools, and web-based curricula-- are changing the education landscape.
The Small Schools Project and CES Northwest Present Reinventing Schools: A Summer Workshop Series: Their focus this year is on teaching and learning.
University of Washington Job Posting: Director, Office of Admissions & Academic Support

KCTS Learning Services Announces Cooperative Partnership with UnitedStreaming.com

1200 titles segmented into 12,000 content-specific video clips that can be searched by keyword, subject area, grade, and/or EALR or WASL.

Have You Seen? . . . Links to websites, announcements, interesting reading and great resources

Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE): Their goal is to improve the quality of infant care in any setting: home, center-based child care, hospital and infant groups.
The St. Louis-Reggio Collaborative: An educational exchange with other US educators who study and are in dialogue with the Reggio Approach.
University of Washington's Reenvisioning the Ph.D.: More and more researchers are taking a careful look at doctoral education. Peruse their newly updated Studies page.
The GW Forecast: A Virtual Think Tank for the Technology Revolution: The GW Forecast brings experts together online to forecast forthcoming breakthroughs and strategically plan for their impact.
Teaching Tolerance: Serves as a clearinghouse of information about anti-bias programs and activities being implemented in schools across the country.
Idealist.org: Starting a Volunteering or Service Learning Project in Your School: They provide teachers with the necessary resources to make starting a volunteering program as simple as possible.
National Arts and Learning Collaborative at Walnut Hill (NALC): A nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming schools by providing students opportunities to learn in and through the arts.
Overseas Family School in Singapore: Check out this Learning Revolution school.

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