Complementary Resources for Chapter 1
WATCH
- A Day in the Life of a Typical American School District (from the Go Public Project)
- Good school, bad school (from Learning Matters TV)
- Arielle: Pushing Your Limits (from What Kids Can Do)
- Kenneth: Being Someone, Doing Something (from What Kids Can Do)
- “Youth and Adults Transforming School Together” (feature story on WKCD.org)
- Responsive Schools (from Responsive Classrooms)
- A high school weighs in on sustaining greatness over time (from Eagle Rock PDC)
- On Play and Learning (from The Center for Children’s Learning)
READ
- OK, Obama Won. Now What? by Sam Chaltain
- New Rules for School Reform by Sam Chaltain
- Fires in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation and Mastery by Kathleen Cushman and the students of What Kids Can Do (Jossey-Bass Books, 2010)
- “The Classroom is Obsolete, It’s time for something new.” by Prakash Nair
- Redesigning High Schools: What Matters and What Works by Linda Darling-Hammond and the School Redesign Network at Stanford University
- In Our School: Building community in elementary schools (from Responsive Classrooms)
- Getting to the heart of educational reform: Social and emotional learning for academic success (from CASEL)
- No new wars needed (from CASEL)
- Project Based Learning (from Edutopia)
- Teacher Development (from Edutopia)
- Parent Engagement Resources (from Edutopia)
LISTEN
- What’s the Big Idea? A conversation Between Josh Starr & Sam Chaltain (Montgomery County Public Schools podcast
- Respecting and Reflecting School Culture (from ASCD)
- BAM Radio piece on 2/7/13
DO
- Connect with others on Facebook about “A Year at Mission Hill”
- Share Your Most Powerful Learning Story (from Faces of Learning)
- Take a snapshot assessment of your school (from IDEA)
- Start a Friday morning coffee talk session, like the Koinonia Coffee Friday Forum in Jackson, MS
- Start building positive community at your school (from Responsive Classrooms)
- Nominate an Ashoka Changemaker School! (from Ashoka)