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These Schools Belong to You and Me

Why We Can't Afford to Abandon Our Public Schools

By: Deborah Meier,Emily Gasoi

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These Schools Belong to You and Me

Why We Can't Afford to Abandon Our Public Schools

By: Deborah Meier,Emily Gasoi

A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy In These Schools Belong to You and Me, MacArthur award–winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people with an “apprenticeship for citizenship in a democracy.” Through an intergenerational exchange with her former colleague and fellow educator Emily Gasoi, the coauthors analyze the last several decades of education reform, challenging narrow profit-driven conceptions of school success. Reflecting on the trajectory of education and social policies that are leading our country further from rule “of, for, and by the people,” the authors apply their extensive knowledge and years of research to address the question of how public education must change in order to counter the erosion of democratic spirit and practice in schools and in the nation as a whole. Meier and Gasoi candidly reflect on the successes, missteps, and challenges they experienced working in democratically governed schools, demonstrating that it is possible to provide an enriched education to all students, not just the privileged few. Arguing that public education and democracy are inextricably bound, and pushing against the tide of privatization, These Schools Belong to You and Me is a rousing call to both save and improve public schools to ensure that all students are empowered to help shape our future democracy.

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Beacon Press

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0807024732

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Teaching in Themes

An Approach to Schoolwide Learning, Creating Community, and Differentiating Instruction

By: Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin,Jenerra Williams,Jeanne Rachko,Heidi Lyne,Ayla Gavins,Emily Gasoi,Tom Valens,Amy Valens

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Teaching in Themes

An Approach to Schoolwide Learning, Creating Community, and Differentiating Instruction

By: Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin,Jenerra Williams,Jeanne Rachko,Heidi Lyne,Ayla Gavins,Emily Gasoi,Tom Valens,Amy Valens

How do teachers and schools create meaningful learning experiences for students with diverse skills, abilities, and cultures? How can teachers authentically assess the learning of their students and build on their strengths and interests in ways that enrich the larger community? How can schools be turned into places where everyone is learning from each other? These are the big questions that guide the work of teachers at the well-known Mission Hill School in Boston and that are addressed in this book. Teaching in Themes will help schools incorporate a whole-school, theme-based curriculum that engages students across grade levels K–8. The authors provide detailed descriptions of four thematic units: What’s Baking in Kathy’s Classroom?, The Impact of Nature and Play, The Struggle for Justice: U.S. History Through the Eyes of African-Americans, and Astronomical Inquiries. Readers will see how teachers and students design “emergent inquiries” within the themes and create artwork, music, presentations, and a variety of hands-on learning experiences that support differentiated instruction across the curriculum. Book Features: Examples of whole-school projects designed to create a deep sense of immersion in a curricular theme and to build a multi-age learning community. Details of how teachers developed rich curriculum tailored to their unique students. The insights of legendary educator Deborah Meier on how whole-school thematic units were used to encourage collaboration among teachers. An afterword by teachers (and film makers) about the thinking behind their work featured in the widely-viewed film series “A Year at Mission Hill.”

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Teachers College Press

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0807756997

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These Schools Belong to You and Me

Why We Can't Afford to Abandon Our Public Schools

By: Deborah Meier,Emily Gasoi

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Why We Can't Afford to Abandon Our Public Schools

By: Deborah Meier,Emily Gasoi

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