REMAPPING PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION

[Michael Klonsky]

The First Symposium of the Deborah Meier Institute

Featuring
Michelle Fine CUNY
Pedro Noguera NYU
John Ryan PRESIDENT EMERITUS INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Deborah Meier COALITION ESSENTIAL SCHOOLS

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Sponsored by the following schools and organizations (list in progress)

AmPark*Art of Teaching Program of Sarah Lawrence College*Boston Arts Academy*Brooklyn Collaborative*Brooklyn International *Brooklyn New
School*Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies*Bronx New
School*Center for Urban Education at LIU*Central Park East 1*Central
Park East 2*City as School*Community School for Social Justice*Earth
School*East Side Community*El Puente*Elementary Teachers Network*Ella
Baker*Essex Street*Facing History*Fannie Lou Hamer*Fannie Lou Hamer
Middle School*Fenway*Freedom High School*Global Learning
Community*Gotham Arts Academy*Humanities Prep*Institute of
Collaborative Education*James Baldwin*Landmark*Lehman Alternative
Community School*Lyons Community*Manhattan International*Middle
College*Mission Hill*Muscota New School*Neighborhood
School*PerDevPerceptual Development*Public Science Project at the
Graduate Center, CUNY*School of the Future*School Without Walls*United
Federation of Teachers (UFT)*Urban Academy*Vanguard*Urban Assembly
School for Wildlife Conservation

• Hear nationally known educators speak about creating and sustaining progressive schools.
• Participate in workshops facilitated by educators and students addressing topics relevant to progressive educators.
• Participate in workshops to redirect the local and national education agenda.
• Connect with colleagues of similar perspectives and varied experience.
• Be entertained by the All-City High School Chorus.

The Julia Richman Education Complex
317 East 67th Street (between 1st &2nd Avenues)

Saturday, April 17, 2010
8:30 am-3:30 pm

Registration details will follow

Email [e-mail] with any questions

The Meier Institute Symposium is presented in collaboration with
Harmony Education Center and Indiana University

[Joseph Henry Nathan]

It will be interesting to see what if any action comes from this meeting.   Looks like a number of NYC and some Boston programs attending. Anyone from the Midwest?

[Mike]

Hi All.... very cool Connie and what a great list of folks to come together.

On another note from fair test: http://www.fairtest.org/fea-press-release-proposed-no-child-overhaul


“NO CHILD” OVERHAUL MUST INCLUDE PROVISIONS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY THAT
ADVANCES LEARNING

As Congress takes up President Obama’s proposals to update the “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) law, national education experts today offered recommendations to overhaul NCLB’s controversial testing and accountability provisions.

Speaking at a Washington, D.C. forum, Richard Rothstein, Research Associate at the Economic Policy Institute and author of Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right, explained why such changes are needed, “When high stakes are attached to standardized tests of math and reading, incentives to narrow the curriculum are irresistible, both within the math and reading domains, and across the entire curriculum. This narrowing is most serious for the disadvantaged children that federal policy purports to want to help. Further, if schools are identified as failing primarily by their standardized test scores, the percentage of misidentified schools will be unacceptably large.”

Doug Christensen, former Commissioner of Education for the state of Nebraska and Professor of Leadership in Education at Doane College, added, "We must decouple accountability from testing or we will never escape the current models of external prescriptions that result in regimentation of the system and require high stakes compliance, both of which restrict the capacity of system to embrace all children and trivializes their education. We must think in terms of a larger and more descriptive accountability that creates a comprehensive picture of the school, its capacity, its performance and the level of learning of the students.”

Beth Foley, Senior Policy Analyst in the Education Policy and Practice Department of the National Education Association spoke on behalf of the Forum on Educational Accountability (FEA), which sponsored the panel. Foley said, “The law’s emphasis needs to shift from applying sanctions for failing to raise test scores to holding states and localities accountable for making the systemic changes that improve student achievement. FEA has provided a blueprint and detailed recommendations to ensure a strong but appropriate federal role in improving schools and student learning.”

Today’s panel was the third in a FEA series “Transforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA): Helping Schools Improve.” FEA seeks to advance the goals of the Joint Organizational Statement on NCLB, now signed by 151 national education, civil rights, religious, disability, parent, labor and civic groups representing more than 50 million Americans. More information about FEA's proposals for ESEA reauthorization is available at http://www.edaccountabiity.org. A print formated PDF of this press release is available at http://www.edaccountability.org/pdf/AccountabilityforLearningPR310.pdf

mike


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[Connie Weber]

I just got this off of Facebook:
Education Center


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The First Annual Symposium of the Deborah Meier Institute
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Remapping Progressive Education

[Connie Weber]

Yahoo!!! So glad to hear of this. I'm going to try to attend. Sounds simply perfect!