Major Human Scale Eduction Schools/Organazations
Types of School/Organizations
Alternative Schools
Thousands of Schools worldwide
Often serving students who reject or our rejected by traditional Public Schools
Wide variety of models, also known as non-traditional education or educational alternative.
includes charter, public, independent, private and home-based schools
Alternative Education Resource Organizations
Edvisions
Network of Small Schools
Self Directed Project Based Learning
Model School: Minnesota New Country School
http://www.edvisions.com/
Expeditionary Learning Schools
Project Based Learning
Grow from Outward Bound model
Network of School and Professional Development
Major Resource: An Ethic Of Excellence by Ron Berger
Montessori Schools
Based on the ideas of Montessori
Well Designed Environment as Teacher.
Holistic Education
Coalition of Essential Schools
Founded by Ted Sizer
Network of Small Schools
Promotes the Habits of Minds
Waldorf Education
based on the ideas of Steiner
Focuses on Holistic Education, Head, Heart and Hands, Looping, Arts
Over 1000 worldwide, including public, charter and independent schools
Major Resources: What are Schools For?: Holistic Education in American Culture, Rudolf Steiner The Education of the Child (1907)
http://www.whywaldorfworks.org/
Krishnamurti Schools
Based on the ideas of Krishnamurti
Holistic Education
Major Resources: Education and the Significance of Life, Letters to Schools by Krishnamurti
Oak Grove, Ojai California, is the only Krishnamurti school in North America, with sister schools that include India's Rishi Valley and the UK's Brockwood Park schools.
The Small Schools Workshop (http://smallschoolsworkshop.wordpress.com/)
“Founded in Chicago in 1991, the Small Schools Workshop has become the premier resource for small schools creation, design and restructuring.”
Small School Movement (Public Schools)
The Small Scale Movement began in 1980’s in New York City as a rejection of Comprehensive High Schools and the effects they had to relationship, learning and democracy. Deb Meier and Ted Sizer played a major role in the growth and development along with providing both the initial theory and leadership for the Small School movement.
Focus on: Progressive Education Public and Charter school
Models: Schools between 150-500 students, School with in Schools
Major resources are The Horace trilogy by Ted Sizer and The Power of Their Ideas by Deb Meier.
Major organizations: Coalition of Essential Schools, Central Park East High school (NYC), Mission Hill (Boston)
Deb Meier currently blogs at Bridging Difference with Diane Ravitch (http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/)
Human Scale Education UK
Human Scale Education in London describes it idea of Human Scale Education to be “a rigorous, progressive, student- centred approach to learning which is grounded in a relationship of respect between learner and teacher.”
Institute of Democratic Education in America
IDEA, Institute for Democratic Education in America, is national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to ensure that all young people can engage meaningfully with their education and gain the tools to build a just, democratic, and sustainable world.
http://democraticeducation.org
Wrap around Service Schools
(Harlem Children Zone, SEI, Open Meadows)