Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 134
Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4758-6470-0 • Hardback • August 2022 • $84.00 • (£65.00)
978-1-4758-6471-7 • Paperback • July 2022 • $37.00 • (£30.00)
978-1-4758-6472-4 • eBook • August 2022 • $35.00 • (£30.00)
Frank S. Kelly, FAIA is an architect, teacher, and author/lecturer with a focus on K-12 teaching and learning. He has worked with school districts across the U.S. to help plan school facilities with a focus on asking teachers and students how they would want teaching and learning to work in their new school—and then helping them imagine environments to support that. He has previously co-authored two books: Teaching the Digital Generation: No More Cookie-Cutter High Schools and Learning Without Classrooms: Visionary Designs for Secondary Schools.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Our Evolving Cities and Schools: Teaching and Learning Must Change
Chapter 2. Schools for the Future: Instruction, Technology, Time, Spaces, Community, Funding
Chapter 3. Creating Portal Schools
Chapter 4. Learning From Other Building Types
Chapter 5. Slow Learners? Great Ideas and Great Schools Ignored
Chapter 6. Epilogue
Index
About the Author
In so many ways our educational system has remained in the 18th century except for the tools we use. Frank S. Kelly provides a different lens in assessing the past and designing the future which yields new possibilities that align with a diverse world. He understands the complex dynamics that structure our learning institutions and pushes our thinking beyond the limitations that so ardently keep us in the past.
— Debi Koch, retired educator and administrator, recipient of “Principal of the Year”, and recognized as “Distinguished Educator” by National Career Academy Coalition
In Diverse Students, Diverse Outcomes: Portal Schools for Access to Diverse Teaching and Learning, Frank S. Kelly provides an excellent analysis of American schools and schooling. The focus on the massive changes in diversity, both from the standpoint of inputs and outputs, is studied in depth and as a result educate readers on the correlations between the changing diversities. The need for massive changes in funding mechanisms, scheduling techniques, architectural design, and desired learning outcomes are provocative topics for consideration by all interested parties.
— Dr. Larry D. Groppel, former assistant superintendent, Highland Park, Dallas, TX; school financial consultant, Moak Casey and Associates
Frank S. Kelly’s Diverse Students, Diverse Outcomes: Portal Schools for Access to Diverse Teaching and Learning is a visionary book by a world-class educational thinker and writer. Exhaustively researched, Kelly meticulously examines the many long-standing assumptions that support traditional, urban high schools, considers the growing challenges created by diverse urban populations, and carefully outlines how Portal Schools can be tailored to meet the needs of the students and communities they are intended to serve. This book is highly recommended for anyone who wants to move beyond simple rhetoric to decisive action in bringing educational vision into practice.
— Ian Jukes, author of "LeaderShift2020: Reinventing Our Schools for Extraordinary and Uncertain Times"