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New Horizons for Learning Online Journal
Vol. X No. 3, Summer 2004From the Editor
Dee Dickinson"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore small daily differences we can make, which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." --Marion Wright Edelman, Founder of the Children's Defense Fund
As school budgets tighten, as many important subjects are cut from the curriculum, as many students need more help in learning than they can find during the school day, out-of-school programs that support learning become increasingly important. That is the topic of New Horizons for Learning's Summer Journal.
In this issue you will find descriptions of exemplary programs that focus on the arts, literacy and remedial help, sports, exploring the natural world, and new technologies that assist learning both in the U.S. and other countries. These after school, week-end, and summer programs not only help students with their academic work, but involve them in constructive and creative activities they might not otherwise have opportunities to explore. Read about a remedial literacy program that also teaches parents to read. Read about how the arts and sports can motivate students to learn. Read about a new group promoting Socially Responsible Education, and by all means do not miss Jean Houston's wise words! We trust that both teachers and parents will find these resources inspiring and useful.
In the months ahead, New Horizons for Learning will be exploring opportunities to partner with another organization to broaden our outreach and make it possible to apply the resources we gather in more places of learning both in our own country and abroad. The numbers of people who use our website continue to grow, and we now receive over three and a half million hits a month. We are always happy to receive feedback on how you are using the information on our website. The Autumn issue of our Journal will focus on programs for students with special needs. Please let us know if you have suggestions for authors of potential articles or programs we should describe in this forthcoming issue. You can write to us at building@newhorizons.org.
ARTICLES
From Outside In: How Out-of-School Programs Enrich Student Learning Nancy Bacon
The Director of Educational Programs at the World Affairs Council of Seattle defines key elements of citizenship today and then explains how out-of-school programs connected with in-school curriculum support education for citizenship.Take Back the Afternoon: Preserving the Landscape of Childhood In Spite of Computers David Sobel
The Director of Teacher Certification Programs at Antioch New England and Co-Director of the Center for Place-Based Education describes the importance of hands-on learning and creative activities in helping children develop their fullest capacities.Arts-Infused Summer School Susy Watts
A national consultant in arts consultant in arts curriculum demonstrates the effect of integrated instruction on student achievement in literacy and mathematics.Arts Learning and the Creative Economy Jack Yantis
Integrated Arts educator recognizes that creativity is essential to the way we live and work today and contemplates how professional development will be reformed to discover new ways to foster creativity while providing a structure in which to produce and manage work.Community Schools: Arts and Academics After School Joel Isaksen
The Community Schools Manager for Seattle's Powerful Schools describes the five guiding principles in the development of their programs.Tacoma TEACH: Making a Difference Through Collaboration Kurt Miller
Funded by a 21st Century Community Learning Center grant from the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the TEACH Project Director shares their mission to help stabilize the Tacoma Hilltop community by creating partnerships and relationships to implement after-school programs and family activities to build strong and successful families and children.Engaging and Empowering Students: A Framework for Teaching about Global Issues and Solutions Gilda K. Wheeler and Kim Rakow Bernier
A global issues curriculum and professional development organization has developed a framework for teaching about global issues and solutions to educate and empower students to make a difference.Audubon: Connecting People with Nature Chuck Remington
Director of Field Support shares the mission of Audubon to provide centers across the country to ensure broad access to environmental education and experiences to foster understanding and developing a relationship between people and nature.Treehouse Educational Advocacy: Improving Educational Outcomes for Foster Kids One Child at a Time Abbe Votaw
The Treehouse Mobilization and Drive Coordinator shares Treehouse's commitment to helping foster children build self-esteem, confidence, and reach their potential through educational enrichment.LINKS For Learning Julie Hancock
The program director explains strategies to increase academic success and reduce the high dropout rate through improved school performance at the elementary level.Effective Hours After School Julie Cain
The Executive Director of Seattle SCORES shows how using an after school soccer program enhances literacy in elementary school children.Motheread/Fatheread: A Family Literacy Program of Humanities Washington Lydia Bassett
Program Officer for Humanities Washington explains how this program uses quality children's literature to help parents read effectively with their children, improve parenting and literacy skills, and increase family communication.A Brain Compatible Approach to Studio Dance Anne Green Gilbert
The Artistic Director of Seattle Creative Dance Center details her studio's approach of integrating current brain research into the teaching of dance concepts and techniques.Knowing the Language of Place Through the Arts Lee Ann Woolery
Arts Coordinator of IslandWood uses art as a way of connecting with the landscape to more deeply understand the ecology and make a stronger connection to place.Salish Sea Expeditions: A "Sound" Education Ellie Linen Low
Executive Director explains her boat-based program that reaches hundreds of 5th-12th graders each year and inspires a passion for exploring, understanding, and respecting the marine environment through hands-on scientific inquiry on Puget Sound.Passages Northwest: Inspiring Courage in Girls and Women Sheryl Kent, Susan Evans, and Kim Shirley
Staff members share their girls' and women's program dedicated to educating and motivating girls and women to develop leadership and courage through the integrated exploration of the arts and the natural environment.Standing Tall at Inchelium Carmen Peone
The Rez Stop (Raising our Educational Zone, Standing Tall On Pride)Director of Inchelium School for Native Americans strives to give children the best possible opportunities for educational and spiritual growth.ArtsPlace: It Really Works! Sharon Nesbitt Davis and Claire Rotolo
An out of school program in Illinois puts teens to work as apprentices to local artists.Learning Through Creative Play Leah Mann
Director Emeritus and Co-Founder of Lelavision shows us how learning and play can reinforce each other.Musings from the Park Bench Ann Tracey
How can our children learn about respect and integrity if we don't teach them through our actions?An Ordinary Day John Morefield
A retired school principal and member of the UW Center for Educational Leadership shares another report from a new school leadership program he has begun in Cambodia.The Rise of Non-Formal Education Fred Mednick
The founder and director of Teachers Without Borders makes the case for education that combines schools that work closely with the community and latest research on teaching and learning.Organic Education™: A National Imperative Hugh Osborn
Educational consultant outlines principles from which to build a school system that can prepare our kids for the 21st century.Dialogue: A Paradigmatic Shift in Communication Anne Adams
The author discuses how to bring people together to discuss our country, freedom, unity, equality and our vision for the future.Investing in K-12 Education, One Child at a Time Joan Jaeckel
Director of Citizen's Endowment for Education (CEEDS) emphasizes that the only way to realize the ideal of an excellent education for every child is to invest in every individual child and youth's inalienable birthright to an appropriately customized education.Social Artistry Jean Houston
One of the world's great educators and director of the Foundation for Mind Research advocates a new type of leader that can deal with the complexity and chaos of today's world.
RECOMMENDED READING
Click on book title for more informationVoices of Hope: Heroes' Stories for Challenging Times Readings from the Giraffe Heroes Project
Romances With Schools: A Life of Education John I. Goodlad
Education for Everyone: Agenda for Education in a Democracy John Goodlad, Corinne Mantle-Bromley, and Stephen John Goodlad
Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities David Sobel
Transforming Schools: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement Allison Zmuda, Robert Kuklis, and Everett Kline
Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change Maxine Greene
Teacher: The One Who Made a Difference Marc Edmundson
Brighten your summer and light up your next school year!
Summer conference: IMPROVING LEARNING THROUGH THE ARTS
IslandWood and New Horizons for Learning present a residential conference for 4th, 5th and 6th grade teachers at IslandWood on Bainbridge Island on August 6-8.
Improving Learning Through the Arts, with emphasis on Math, Language Arts, and Science, will offer powerful tools to use the arts to improve the academic achievement of all students in the basic skills, enhance higher order thinking skills, and facilitate meeting the EALR's. Keynote by John Bransford, UW professor and editor of How People Learn. Further information and registration online at http://www.islandwood.org/specialeventsarts.asp
As always, we look forward to hearing from you about how our website can better serve you. Your questions, suggestions, or comments can be addressed to us at info@newhorizons.org.
City of Seattle Announces 2005 Funding Opportunity for Out of-School Arts Programs
Urgent Call for Volunteers
Tom Hoerr, the head of the New City School in St. Louis, MO (where MI has been implemented since 1988) is working on a book about leadership, supervision, and school culture. He is seeking comments from teachers and administrators to both inform his thinking and for inclusion in the book (no names will be used). If you have the interest and time, he would like to hear from you in response to the following questions. You can reach him at trhoerr@newcityschool.org.Faculty and committee meetings: What drives you crazy about these, what do you find effective? How could they be improved?
Teacher goals: What would make the goal-setting process more effective for you?
Teacher end-of-year evaluations: What thoughts do you have on how these could be more meaningful?
Teacher observations: Can you offer an example of how they are helpful? How would you suggest that they be changed?
What helps you to be creative in designing lessons and planning curriculum? What would you like?
I talk a lot about faculty collegiality, learning with and from others. What thoughts to you have on this? Can you offer any examples?
Any other words of wisdom to share?Imaginative Education Research Group: Educating Imaginative Minds
Vancouver, B.C. Canada• July 14-17, 2004The Learning Space Summer Experience
Islandwood, Bainbridge Island, WA • August 3-5, 2004Center for Educational Leadership Summer Institute
Blaine, WA • June 27- July 2, 20042nd Annual ADHD Conference
Tukwila, WA • October 9-10, 2004Washington State Association for Multicultural Education Annual Conference
Ellensburg, WA • October 1-2, 2004Update on Children of the Code
The Children of the Code project is pleased to announce the availability of one of its most important interviews, with Dr. Richard Venezky. Dr. Venezky is considered by many, if not most, reading scientists and policy makers to be the authority on the English Code.A Call for Teachers
The Small Schools Project in Seattle is embarking on a project to bring images of innovative teaching and learning to teachers in small high schools. The essential components of powerful teaching and learning – active inquiry, in-depth learning, and performance assessment – provide convenient shorthand for focusing teachers and administrators on what is needed. What the terms do not do is provide images of "what it looks like."They have just begun the work of identifying high school teachers and schools across the country with successful practices in the following areas that could possibly be captured on video.
? Project-Based, Place-Based, Problem-Based Learning
? Performance Assessment
? Advisories
? Integrating Curriculum
? Teaching for Equity/Culturally Responsive Teaching
? Differentiated Instruction in Heterogeneous Classrooms
? LiteracyIf you, or anyone you know of is doing something you think we should see, please let us know, and feel free to pass this question along to your colleagues. Contact:
Micki Evans
Coordinator of Professional Development
Small Schools Project
7900 E. Greenlake Drive N. Suite 212
Seattle, WA 98103
206.351.7580
mevans@antiochsea.eduHAVE YOU SEEN? Related Links
Afterschool.gov Clearinghouse provides links to funding and federal resources to support out of school programs.
National Institute on Out-of-School TimeFor over 20 years, the Institute has successfully brought national attention to the importance of children's out-of-school time, influenced policy, increased standards and professional recognition, and spearheaded community action aimed at improving the availability, quality and viability of programs serving children and youth.
Finance Project Resources for financing and sustaining out-of-school programs.
21st Century Community Learning Centers Provides Community Learning Center grants through state allocations for academic enrichment opportunities during nonschool hours.
Historica's YouthLinks Program is aimed at high school and CEGEP students (and their teachers) in Canada and around the world. This collaborative on-line learning program offers, in French and in English, teaching modules with content and activities that can be done on-line and in class. Taking part in YouthLinks is entirely free.
WildTech's new program aims to provide refurbished Pentium-II computers to every low-income household with a K-12 student in Washington State. The project works as follows: The WTA's Redmond office serves as a central hub, receiving surplus computers donated by Puget Sound area corporations. College students and volunteers gain valuable job experience serving in internships and managing this hub. They refurbish half of the donated computers and provide them to low-income families within the Puget Sound region. WorkSource, HeadStart, and other social service agencies determine the recipients. The program also includes a three-hour training class. Advanced students serve as classroom teachers and community technology support specialists. The other half of the donated computers are provided to a network of high schools across Washington State already trained in this model.
http://www.playincognito.com In your fantasy, have you imagined yourself in a different form? Try it. Go INCOGNITO.Do one of your friends, your family members, your heroes, your dog? Yes, anything can be put in a different visual concept. It makes you laugh--and wonder at how perception affects how we see and feel about people and things.You can make your own game of INCOGNITO. Try putting an INCOG of your creation on the internet with several clues, and send it to someone. Make one for birthday cards, or just to try on different images of yourself. Make trading cards. Make a guessing game.
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