The school within us : the creation of an innovative public school / James Nehring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nehring, James.

Series:

SUNY series, restructuring and school change.

SUNY series, democracy and education.

SUNY series, democracy and education

SUNY series, restructuring and social change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bethlehem Central Lab School (Delmar, N.Y.).

High schools--New York (State)--Bethlehem--Case studies.

High schools.

Educational innovations--New York (State)--Bethlehem--Case studies.

Educational innovations.

School management and organization--New York (State)--Bethlehem--Case studies.

School management and organization.

Laboratory schools--New York (State)--Bethlehem--Case studies.

Laboratory schools.

Physical Description:

234 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1998.

Summary:

The inspirational story of a group of teachers, parents, and students who face and overcome many challenges in their struggle to create a very unconventional school within a school. This book tells the story of a community of teachers, parents, and students who thoughtfully took charge of their very conventional circumstances and created a very unconventional school. With authority and liveliness, Nehring, a veteran teacher who led the development of the school, describes the many challenges faced and overcome in The Bethlehem Lab School from its inception as a proposal in 1988 to the graduation of its first senior class. Working on the fault line between theory and practice, Nehring and his colleagues built a school on performance-based assessment in a state resurgent with standardized testing. Committed to small scale in a suburban community with a typically large high school and wide elective offering, the Lab School--which functions as a school within a school--offered a highly focused, integrated curriculum, culminating in a senior internship program and thesis project. With students and parents closely involved, the school developed a democratic culture attuned to many voices and a high degree of collaboration. Throughout its development, the Lab School faced skepticism from colleagues and community members but continually proved them wrong as it raised private foundation money, won crucial faculty votes, attracted a diverse student population, succeeded with competitive college admissions for its graduates, and won strong support from students and parents James Nehring is Principal Teacher of the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School and Regional Teacher Center in Devens, Massachusetts. Founding teacher of The Bethlehem Lab School in Delmar, New York, he has also written The School We Have, The Schools We Want: An American Teacher on the Front Line ; and Why Do We Gotta Do This Stuff, Mr. Nehring: Notes from a Teacher's Day in School .

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Afterword

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216).

ISBN:

1-4384-1437-4

0-585-09166-8

OCLC:

42856414