The Common School - Amherst, Massachusetts Progressive school fostering academic, emotional, and social growth in children ages three through twelve.Category Regional North America A Amherst Education K12 school, nursery school, daycare, independent schools, massachusetts schools, progressiveschool, innovation schools, alternative schools, private schools http://www.commonschool.org/
Extractions: Amherst, Massachusetts schools, Pioneer Valley schools, Western Massachusetts schools, elementary school, nursery school, daycare, independent schools, Massachusetts schools, progressive school, innovation schools, alternative schools, private schools, schools The Common School is a progressive school fostering academic, emotional, and social growth in children. Our mission is to develop strength of character and intellectual competence while nurturing curiosity, identity, self-worth, and respect for others.
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Extractions: Employment Opportunities JOIN OUR TEAM The Futures HealthCore/Group invites you to join our team of qualified professionals. We are a company created and managed by clinicians who, as a group, possess an exceptional breadth of experience in the provision of therapy and medical management services. We have opportunities for you in the following settings and areas: Public and Alternative Schools
Futures Health Group Head Start Programs, Public schools, alternative School Programs, and Skilled NursingFacilities. As the Area Manager of Northern massachusetts, Ms. Wilson is http://www.futureshealth.com/about.html
Extractions: owned and operated by therapists.... About our Staff The Futures HealthGroup was founded to provide schools, human service agencies and healthcare facilities a continuum of resources from professional staffing and clinical assessments through the operation of delivery systems. The Futures HealthGroup is operated by well-experienced practitioners of educational and clinical services who have a history of creating pragmatic and cost effective outcomes. The HealthGroup currently provides clinical, management and consulting services to: The HealthGroup offers a complete array of healthcare staffing and clinical management services through The Futures HealthCore, a wholly owned subsidiary. This company provides clinical services to public and private schools, alternative schools, hospitals, nursing facilities and community based providers. The Futures HealthCore currently provides services to schools, nursing homes and programs for people with developmental disabilities in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Missouri, Michigan and The District of Columbia. The HealthCore employs psychologists, speech and language pathologists and assistants, nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, audiologists, special education teachers and managers, and social workers in these varied clinical settings.
Springfield Library: Education Links Educational Opportunity Centers for massachusetts The Educational Opportunity schools,homeschooling, and finding private or public alternative schools. http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/liblinks/educate.html
Extractions: Government sites Higher Education Schools Alternative Education ... Special Education Government sites: A database intended to help identify and contact organizations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics. For teachers, librarians, parents, researchers and others. From the U.S. Department of Education.
Project Zero/Massachusetts Schools Network work and could help other schools with the use by school districts and states, includingMassachusetts. Assessment in context The alternative to standardized http://www.pz.harvard.edu/Research/MSN.htm
Extractions: In collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Education, Project Zero worked to help individual schools adopt portfolio assessment as part of a statewide school reform effort. The three-year initiative, which began in January 1994, brought together practitioners, policy makers, and researchers to explore how portfolios can be implemented to provide effective assessment of students and programs. Five Massachusetts elementary and middle schools served as initial partners, and six other schools were added in subsequent years. These schools committed substantial time and resources to an ongoing school-wide review of the fit between curriculum, pedagogy and assessment practices. In this context, they explored the use of project-based curriculum and portfolios. In addition, teams of teachers from participating schools met several times a year to share experiences, concerns, and discoveries. These meetings provided an opportunity for participants to compare portfolio models and designs they had developed. The network of schools continued to meet and grow as more schools joined the project. The work was based on an approach to portfolio implementation developed by Project Zero over the past ten years. During its work on
Steve Seidel in schools. He was an acting and language arts teacher and coordinated the artsprogram at The Group School in Cambridge, massachusetts, an alternative high http://www.pz.harvard.edu/PIs/SS.htm
Extractions: Steve Seidel, Ed.D., became Director of Harvard Project Zero in July, 2000. He continues his work as a Research Associate and Principal Investigator and as Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Steve has worked in the areas of the arts and education for over twenty-five years. He trained and worked professionally as an actor and, later, as a stage director. He has worked with theater companies in Baltimore, New York, and Boston and his directorial work has been seen Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway in New York, in Boston, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In addition to working in theaters, Steve has also worked on short and feature-length films as acting coach, writer, and script consultant. In 1971 Steve began working in schools. He was an acting and language arts teacher and coordinated the arts program at The Group School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an alternative high school for low-income and working class youth. He also taught for eight years at South Boston High School as lead teacher and coordinator of the Theater Company of Boston's federally funded collaboration with the Boston Public Schools. Since 1988, Steve has worked on various projects at Project Zero. These projects have examined issues in arts education, alternative assessment, project-based curriculum, and school reform. He is currently Principal Investigator for
Massachusetts Education Reform Page massachusetts Department of Education. The Shocking Truth About Our Public schools(They're better Than You Think) . MCAS Opponents Spell Out alternative . http://www.fairtest.org/arn/masspage.html
Extractions: About CARE Statement on the MCAS and Education Reform Call for Authentic State-Wide Assessment ... Working Papers For a Public Conversation - On Education Reform in Massachusetts Parents' MCAS Flyer Sign on to the CARE E-Mail Discussion Group Suspend MCAS Petition Sample letter to your legislator ...
MCAS Opponents Spell Out Alternative a recent poll by the massachusetts Teachers Association proposal offers a detailedalternative consistent with the best interests of students and schools. http://www.fairtest.org/arn/MCAS Opponents Spell Out Alternative.html
Extractions: by Paul Dunphy A spirit of educational rebellion surprising for its passion and resilience continues to spread across Massachusetts, encouraging opposition to the state-mandated MCAS test, and making an eloquent plea for broader forms of assessing public schools and the students they serve. Much like the revolutionaries of old, men and women are gathering in the halls of Harvard and the public spaces of Cambridge and Boston and west into the Berkshires to organize against the use of this paper-and-pencil test to sort children and make sweeping judgments about who should graduate from high school and who should not. In a classic Colonist vs. crown match up, these parents, kids, and teachers, along with a handful of college professors, and a growing number of public school administrators, have taken on the educational bureaucracy, which is backed in its defense of MCAS by an absolutely eye-opening list of corporate and civic giants. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, BankBoston, Bell Atlantic, Price Waterhouse Coopers, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce, the Boston Globe, and many others have helped orchestrate the most expensive public relations campaign ever mounted in Massachusetts on behalf of any educational initiative. They have been using videos, brochures, personal contacts, and newsletters by the thousands to promote acceptance of the MCAS test. Yet the dissidents, with virtually no budget and a limited organization, continue to be heard.
Alternative Network Journal - Resources Kevin Tarpley alternative Education Grant Manager massachusetts Department of MartinMueller alternative schools and Programs Office of Superintendent of http://altnetjnl.org/resources.html
Extractions: This organization was established in 1986. They provide publications, networking, professional development, technical assistance, and maintain an on-line clearinghouse. Membership for individuals is $55 per year, and for institutions it is $195. Members receive a quarterly newsletter and The Journal of At-Risk Issues, a scholarly journal published twice a year. One of the few organizations doing important work in this field; warm and friendly, responsive folks.
Welcome To The Black Alliance For Educational Options Online in places like Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Cambridge, massachusetts, socalled alternativeschools alternative schools typically focus on at risk students who http://www.baeo.org/options/innovations.htm
Extractions: Many school systems have established magnet school programs for a small percentage of their students. Magnet schools, sometimes called specialty schools, gained popularity during the 1970's as alternatives to mandatory desegregation plans. They provided specialized programs such as science and technology or the performing arts, for instance to attract a racially diverse student body from across a school district. By the early 1980s, there were approximately 1,100 magnet schools in 140 urban school districts nationwide. Some magnet schools require students to compete for admission, setting grade point average or test score requirements for eligibility. Magnet schools do not generally have attendance areas, although in places like Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, so-called "walk zones" were established to give some children living near magnet schools more access to these special programs. Such a policy was necessary because many of the early magnet schools established to foster desegregation were located in poorer urban neighborhoods. Children living in those neighborhoods often were denied access because they did not qualify for the special programs or because, as children of color, they would not "enhance racial balance" by attending the school.
Hadley Public Schools- Hadley, Massachusetts such as the immune system, nervous system, mental health issues, alternative healthsources in part by A Gift from the Class of 1998 Hadley Public schools. http://www.hadleyschools.org/health/healthed.htm
Extractions: Policies Screenings Immunizations Health Education ... Home Health Education The goal of health education is to coordinate what is taught in the classroom with how a student takes care of themselves. We cover all matters related to physical, emotional, and social health. Good health habits begin in kindergarten and are encouraged and taught throughout the school years. The school nurses, as health educators, are continually teaching the students to learn to take responsibility for their own health decisions and choices. We welcome questions regarding health classes and according to state law, if there is any portion of the health curriculum that you as parents feel your child should not be present for, you just need to send a note to the principal and the child will be given an alternative assignment for that portion of the class. Kindergarten: Elementary school nurse, Julienne Singer, RN, BSN will cover specific topics regarding disease prevention, healthy habits, and safety as a guest speaker. Most of the instruction regarding family, nutrition, and peer relationships are covered by the classroom teacher.
Extractions: Effective Alternative Strategies: Grants to Reduce Student Suspensions and Expulsions, and Ensure Educational Progress of Suspended and Expelled Students Center for Community Alternatives, Inc., Syracuse, NY Boston Public Schools, Boston, MA St. Cloud School District, St. Cloud, MN Upper Darby School District, Drexal Hill, PA ... Topeka Public Schools, Topeka, KS Funding Amount $750,000 Project 180o has three goals: provide full day programs for suspended and expelled students; reduce the number of students expelled from school; and improve the quality of alternative programs for suspended and expelled students. The project will provide a comprehensive education and support services program for 110 to 150 middle and high school students each year. The target population is court-involved and chronically disruptive middle and high school students. Project 180o is a collaboration involving the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, the Massachusetts Office of Community Corrections, the Boston Police Department, the Boston Alternative Education Alliance and five of the non-profit schools within the Alliance and other community-based organizations.
Extractions: Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management Eugene OR. Controlled Choice: An Alternative School Choice Plan. ERIC Digest, Number 70. THIS DIGEST WAS CREATED BY ERIC, THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ERIC, CONTACT ACCESS ERIC 1-800-LET-ERIC School choice is one of the hottest topics in education. Not only does it have the attention of educators, it has the endorsement of President Bush and a large following of parents. Books are being written, arguments waged, and bills drafted. There is a growing feeling that if parents can choose which schools their children attend, education will improve. However, there are groups urging caution. Some are concerned that issues of equity will be passed over in the push for school choice, causing at-risk students to fall further behind. Because of these concerns, choice plans that focus on equity have begun to receive national attention. Foremost among these is controlled choice, which attempts to create equitable education in a district by providing choice while simultaneously preserving racial and ethnic balance. WHAT IS CONTROLLED CHOICE?
Extractions: I'M A TRAITOR. I mean, in Washington state's current political milieu, where the subject of public education is magnified and romanticized into an abstract holy questI come out looking like a traitor to the teaching profession. (I've taught high school English in Massachusetts, California, and Washington.) I've earned the title of traitor to the cause because I favor charter schools. Lately, I've been accused, by liberal friends, of wanting to discard public schools and hasten the death of democracy. Basically, charter schools are independent public schools run by nonprofit organizations. Initiative 729, on the upcoming ballot, proposes 80 charter schools to be established in Washington over the next four years. There are 36 other states that have collectively blessed about 2,000 charter schools across the country. Each charter school in Washington would need to be approved by, and have as a sponsor, either a school district or a state university. Charter schools would be required to have a curriculum, a five-year budget, and undergo public hearings. The schools would be exempt from state laws and rules governing other public schools. I believe charter schools are all about democracy and positive social change. They could complement public schools, spark educational reform through healthy competition, and serve as educational laboratories.
Volunteer Solutions - United Way Of Massachusetts Bay us a better understanding about the working environment of alternative schools, whichcater such organization or person by United Way of massachusetts Bay; nor http://www.volunteersolutions.org/volunteer/agency/one_157700.html
Extractions: Last updated on April 7, 2003 A year-round private alternative school for kids from infancy through grade eight, our school is committed to true, lasting, comprehensive reform in education. However, also central to the idea of reform for us is the notion of access. Open all day and year round, we strive to serve the broadest possible base, providing an environment diverse in language, culture, class, race and learning style. Description: The school was founded in 1983 by Patricia Jennings-Welch, who has spent a lifetime dedicated to education, beginning with her own eight children. The Founder's vision draws from an eclectic mix of Piaget, Montessori, Dewey, Vygotsky, Bruner, Gardner and her own philosophies, allowing that each would have grown and changed given infinite lifespan, and accepting none as the holder of absolute truth. The school has several components, ranging from infants and toddlers, through preschool, a primary day school, extended day program, and a summer session. Our school is rooted in the tradition of programs that have developed in response to the need for change in the traditional schools. Unlike much of the experimental movement, however, the greenhouse school has chose to ground itself in the community. We use a very strong base of language and mathematical/logical skills building, using individualized planning and manipulatives as much as possible. However, upon this base we set the larger spectrum of human intelligences, trying to nurture social/emotional, cognitive and physical growth through a wide variety of activities. Our heated, inground pool serves as an excellent teaching forum for physical fitness; additionally, we pursue art and music woven throughout the curriculum (a separate published paper on our approach to music is available by contacting the school), drama and video production, an intergenerational exchange, ceramics, gardening, papermaking, and so on.
Volunteer Solutions - United Way Of Massachusetts Bay recreation, and athletic programs for children and youth; alternative schools forchildren such organization or person by United Way of massachusetts Bay; nor http://www.volunteersolutions.org/boston/volunteer/agency/one_10446.html
Extractions: Last updated on January 1, 2003 Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses, Inc. serves the community as a catalyst for action and change, helping to build a community of caring individuals. Through a new kind of settlement house, we are helping to build a dynamic community where the strength of diversity is valued and where families and individuals have possibilities for personal growth and an improved quality of life in and around Dorchester. Description: Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses, Inc. was established in 1965 when three turn-of-the-century settlement houses consolidated their fiscal and administrative operations. In the early 1900's settlement houses were community organizations, which helped neighbors improve their survival skills. The original settlement houses taught English to new immigrants and provided them with necessary skills to find jobs. Federated has taken the settlement model of community empowerment and applied it to the needs of its multi-lingual, multi-cultural urban community.
The Center For Learning Excellence Interactive the models for the statewide alternative schools grants program. he joined the Springfieldschools as assistant half years with the massachusetts Department of http://cle.osu.edu/aboutcle/oaeab.html
Extractions: In January 1995, Betty D. Montgomery was sworn in as Ohios first woman and the states 45th Attorney General. She was re-elected to a second four-year term in November 1998. A former criminal prosecutor and state senator, Attorney General Montgomery has spent her entire career protecting Ohios most vulnerable citizens by prosecuting criminals, helping victims, protecting consumers, reshaping Ohio law, and supporting local law enforcement across the state. A graduate of Bowling Green State University and the University of Toledo College of Law, the Attorney General began her legal career as a criminal clerk for the Lucas County Common Pleas Court. She became assistant prosecuting attorney in Wood County, and quickly advanced to become Perrysburg city prosecutor. She was then elected to serve as Wood County prosecuting attorney, where she increased the felony conviction rate in her office by 250 percent during her eight years as prosecutor. After two terms as Wood County prosecuting attorney, Attorney General Montgomery was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1988, where she served as chair of the Criminal Justice Subcommittee, and vice-chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission. Attorney General Montgomery created Project OASIS in 1997, a three-year alternative school pilot program designed to identify and assist youth in grades four through seven at risk for increased delinquent behavior. Project OASIS is one of the models for the statewide alternative schools grants program.
Making Our Schools Better charter schools are the least radical reform alternative, public school authoritiesoften oppose them. In February 1997 the president of the massachusetts http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/2000/Schools/schools7.htm
Extractions: Which system is best for Massachusetts? There are four kinds of school systems being debated in America today. Which one is best for Massachusetts? 1. Public Schools are the most common kind of schools in America. Currently over 90% of American children are enrolled in schools that are paid for and operated by the government. Something close to a government "monopoly" or "socialism" best describes this situation. American schools are mostly owned and operated by state and local governments, but the national government has played an increased role since the 1960s. Is the public education system in America in crisis, or is the crisis an imaginary one? Although the abysmal results on recent Massachusetts teacher tests, as well as repeated poor performance by American students in international comparisons, have made the existence of severe problems in American public education hard to deny, there remains significant denial in the public education sector of the very existence of an educational crisis. In May, 1996
