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September 2001
E-Newsletter, September 2001
The staff at the Annenberg Institute wish to extend our deepest condolences to all our colleagues and friends, known and unknown, who have been personally affected by last week's tragic events and to express our hopes for peace, justice, and brother/sister-hood around the world.
Feature
SCHOOL COMMUNITIES THAT WORK: Focusing on Equity-driven Systems
The Annenberg Institute is issuing this week its second newsletter on School Communities that Work: A National Task Force on the Future of Urban Districts. This issue focuses on the work of the Task Force's Design Group on Organizing, Managing and Governing Schools and Systems. Central to the vision of "school communities that work" is a focus on equity as the raison d'etre of systems of schools. The Design Group's co-chairs, Paul Hill and Don McAdams, define an equity-driven school system and what it will take to get there. The newsletter enumerates four organizational mechanisms that are key to a system's ability to ensure that all its students are able to meet high standards. Also includes an interview with Group member Carl Cohn, superintendent of the Long Beach (CA) school system, and a list of the Group members.
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Update
UNION-DISTRICT AGREEMENTS: Can they promote collaboration?
The Annenberg Institute hosted a gathering of some 70 district and union officials from nine urban school systems to explore and share ways to promote trust-based, collaborative relationships between teacher unions and school districts. The meeting, held in Denver on July 19–21, involved participants in discussions and activities that highlighted areas of agreement and discord and enabled each team to layout plans for next steps. A summary of the meeting is available, and includes the keynote address, by Tony Wagner, Co-Director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, entitled "Ed 'Reform': Redefining the Problem."
> Download PDF
Now Available
LITERACY IN THE ARTS: How do the arts improve education?
The Annenberg Institute's Executive Director, Warren Simmons, chaired a two-year Task Force on Literacy in the Arts appointed by Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Almond. The Governor had called for a systematic look at the role of the arts in Rhode Island, including the area of education, following the Brown University/Providence Journal Public Policy Conference on the Arts, held in February 1997. The Task Force completed the study phase of its work and presented its "Framework for Action" to the Governor in June 2001. A press conference is scheduled for September 20, to announce plans for a transition team to continue the work of the Task Force.
Upcoming
HIGH SCHOOLS: What's wrong and how do we fix them?
The Annenberg Institute's Executive Director, Warren Simmons, will be a featured speaker at a seminar hosted by Columbia University's Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media on September 21. The seminar will look at the ways in which the new push for accountability and standards is affecting high schools. Dr. Simmons and Michelle Cahill of the Carnegie Corporation will lead off the seminar with a talk on "The Purposes of High School." Other topics on the agenda include block scheduling, year-round school, the advantages of small schools, and the role of the senior year. NOTE: Although the agenda is still posted, this meeting has now been postponed due to recent current events.
E-Newsletter, September 2001
The staff at the Annenberg Institute wish to extend our deepest condolences to all our colleagues and friends, known and unknown, who have been personally affected by last week's tragic events and to express our hopes for peace, justice, and brother/sister-hood around the world.
Feature
SCHOOL COMMUNITIES THAT WORK: Focusing on Equity-driven Systems
The Annenberg Institute is issuing this week its second newsletter on School Communities that Work: A National Task Force on the Future of Urban Districts. This issue focuses on the work of the Task Force's Design Group on Organizing, Managing and Governing Schools and Systems. Central to the vision of "school communities that work" is a focus on equity as the raison d'etre of systems of schools. The Design Group's co-chairs, Paul Hill and Don McAdams, define an equity-driven school system and what it will take to get there. The newsletter enumerates four organizational mechanisms that are key to a system's ability to ensure that all its students are able to meet high standards. Also includes an interview with Group member Carl Cohn, superintendent of the Long Beach (CA) school system, and a list of the Group members.
> Download PDF
Update
UNION-DISTRICT AGREEMENTS: Can they promote collaboration?
The Annenberg Institute hosted a gathering of some 70 district and union officials from nine urban school systems to explore and share ways to promote trust-based, collaborative relationships between teacher unions and school districts. The meeting, held in Denver on July 19–21, involved participants in discussions and activities that highlighted areas of agreement and discord and enabled each team to layout plans for next steps. A summary of the meeting is available, and includes the keynote address, by Tony Wagner, Co-Director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, entitled "Ed 'Reform': Redefining the Problem."
> Download PDF
Now Available
LITERACY IN THE ARTS: How do the arts improve education?
The Annenberg Institute's Executive Director, Warren Simmons, chaired a two-year Task Force on Literacy in the Arts appointed by Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Almond. The Governor had called for a systematic look at the role of the arts in Rhode Island, including the area of education, following the Brown University/Providence Journal Public Policy Conference on the Arts, held in February 1997. The Task Force completed the study phase of its work and presented its "Framework for Action" to the Governor in June 2001. A press conference is scheduled for September 20, to announce plans for a transition team to continue the work of the Task Force.
Upcoming
HIGH SCHOOLS: What's wrong and how do we fix them?
The Annenberg Institute's Executive Director, Warren Simmons, will be a featured speaker at a seminar hosted by Columbia University's Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media on September 21. The seminar will look at the ways in which the new push for accountability and standards is affecting high schools. Dr. Simmons and Michelle Cahill of the Carnegie Corporation will lead off the seminar with a talk on "The Purposes of High School." Other topics on the agenda include block scheduling, year-round school, the advantages of small schools, and the role of the senior year. NOTE: Although the agenda is still posted, this meeting has now been postponed due to recent current events.
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