R&L Education
Pages: 176
Trim: 5½ x 9
978-1-57886-186-6 • Paperback • December 2004 • $41.00 • (£32.00)
Doug Thomas has been the director of the Gates-EdVisions Project since the reception of the grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to replicate the MNCS and EdVisions model. Walter Enloe is a teacher in Hamline University's Graduate School of Education. He has been a consultant with EdVisions since 2000. Ron Newell is presently working with the replication efforts of the Gates-EdVisions Project. Previously, he taught high school history and social studies for 25 years.
Part 1 Foreword by Dennis Littky
Part 2 Introduction by Ron Newell
Part 3 Part 1: The Founding and Development of the Minnesota New Country School
Chapter 4 1. Little Did We Know
Chapter 5 2. Putting Ideas to Work
Chapter 6 3. Student Ownership: Teacher Ownership
Chapter 7 4. The EdVisions Project Approach: Facilitating Student Choice
Part 8 Part 2: Building the Learning Community
Chapter 9 5. Building a Learning Community: The Conscious Pursuit of an Idea
Chapter 10 6. Democratic Circles
Chapter 11 7. Experiential Learning: Why Project Based Learning Works
Chapter 12 8. Teaching Excellence through Place-Based Projects
Part 13 Part 3: Some Results of the Learning Communities
Chapter 14 9. MNCS Graduates: Telling Lived Stories
Chapter 15 10. Constituting a Democratic Learning Community: The Avalon Experience
Chapter 16 11. Why Are These Schools Cool? Voices of the Students and Parents
Part 17 Afterword by Doug Thomas
Part 18 Index
Part 19 About the Editors
...[shares] lessons learned while organizing the EdVisions cooperative system that gives teachers control of the learning program, hiring of personnel, and most of the budget.
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