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July / August 2001
E-Newsletter, July / August 2001
Feature
UNION-DISTRICT AGREEMENTS: Can they promote collaboration?
The Annenberg Institute is working with Challenge sites and other urban districts to rethink union-district relationships. The latest issue of the Challenge Journal (Spring 2001) looks at "How Teacher Unions Are Working with Districts to Improve Schools." The 8-page newsletter examines such controversial issues as linking pay to performance and balancing seniority with school-site management. In addition, the Institute hosted an invitational meeting of nine urban districts, including six Challenge sites, that brought together teams of players concerned with contract negotiations, including teachers, district administrators, union leaders, parents, and community groups. Before leaving the conference, each team planned next steps to take back in their communities.
> Challenge Journal PDF file [8 pages, 192 KB]
Update
"REDESIGNING HOPE": How can students participate in school redesign?
As part of the Annenberg Institute's ongoing support for school reform efforts in Providence and Rhode Island, Research Assistant Rebecca Ostro has been instrumental in creating an elective course at Providence's Hope High School that brought the school's students into its redesign process. The class did research on truancy at Hope and presented their findings to the school improvement team. Working with three Brown students and a Hope teacher, Ostro, herself a recent Brown graduate, helped plan and teach the course.
> Article available online
Upcoming
PBS FALL SERIES: How did our system of schooling get to be what it is?
The Annenberg Institute is one of several organizations sponsoring and promoting public discussion based on the documentary series "School: The Story of American Public Education," scheduled to air on PBS stations in September. The series chronicles the history of public education from colonial times to present, highlighting issues that are still at the forefront of the national dialogue on the role of education and the need for reform. The Institute is collaborating with Roundtable, Inc., in developing and supporting a series of public conversations on topics that arise from the series.
Publications
URBAN EDUCATION: What promise does it hold for America?
The Annenberg Institute sponsored a group of Senior Fellows in Urban Education who worked individually and collaboratively over two years (1998-2000) to consider and promote aspects of urban education that could serve as models of educational excellence. As part of their collective work, the Fellows developed a set of analytical lenses through which to describe, critique, and facilitate the promise of urban education. Coded AEIOU, the lenses focus on developing Agency to bring about Equity and social justice through links between Instruction and curriculum and their Outcomes and impacts, with a particular emphasis on Urban conditions and contexts.
> Download pdf [14 pages, 84 KB]
Visit the complete listing of all Annenberg Institute publications on the Web. A printed publications brochure is available on request; e-mail AISR_Info@brown.edu or call 401.863.7990.
E-Newsletter, July / August 2001
Feature
UNION-DISTRICT AGREEMENTS: Can they promote collaboration?
The Annenberg Institute is working with Challenge sites and other urban districts to rethink union-district relationships. The latest issue of the Challenge Journal (Spring 2001) looks at "How Teacher Unions Are Working with Districts to Improve Schools." The 8-page newsletter examines such controversial issues as linking pay to performance and balancing seniority with school-site management. In addition, the Institute hosted an invitational meeting of nine urban districts, including six Challenge sites, that brought together teams of players concerned with contract negotiations, including teachers, district administrators, union leaders, parents, and community groups. Before leaving the conference, each team planned next steps to take back in their communities.
> Challenge Journal PDF file [8 pages, 192 KB]
Update
"REDESIGNING HOPE": How can students participate in school redesign?
As part of the Annenberg Institute's ongoing support for school reform efforts in Providence and Rhode Island, Research Assistant Rebecca Ostro has been instrumental in creating an elective course at Providence's Hope High School that brought the school's students into its redesign process. The class did research on truancy at Hope and presented their findings to the school improvement team. Working with three Brown students and a Hope teacher, Ostro, herself a recent Brown graduate, helped plan and teach the course.
> Article available online
Upcoming
PBS FALL SERIES: How did our system of schooling get to be what it is?
The Annenberg Institute is one of several organizations sponsoring and promoting public discussion based on the documentary series "School: The Story of American Public Education," scheduled to air on PBS stations in September. The series chronicles the history of public education from colonial times to present, highlighting issues that are still at the forefront of the national dialogue on the role of education and the need for reform. The Institute is collaborating with Roundtable, Inc., in developing and supporting a series of public conversations on topics that arise from the series.
Publications
URBAN EDUCATION: What promise does it hold for America?
The Annenberg Institute sponsored a group of Senior Fellows in Urban Education who worked individually and collaboratively over two years (1998-2000) to consider and promote aspects of urban education that could serve as models of educational excellence. As part of their collective work, the Fellows developed a set of analytical lenses through which to describe, critique, and facilitate the promise of urban education. Coded AEIOU, the lenses focus on developing Agency to bring about Equity and social justice through links between Instruction and curriculum and their Outcomes and impacts, with a particular emphasis on Urban conditions and contexts.
> Download pdf [14 pages, 84 KB]
Visit the complete listing of all Annenberg Institute publications on the Web. A printed publications brochure is available on request; e-mail AISR_Info@brown.edu or call 401.863.7990.
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