Assessment
The CES Mentor Schools use multiple measures of assessment to gauge and encourage student mastery of skills and content. And they use data resulting from ongoing evaluation of student work to ascertain how students are doing and how instruction might be modified to provide extra help where needed.
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4/11/06 5:35 AM
by Ainsley B. Rose
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CES School Benchmarks This forum is dedicated to discussing the use of the new CES Benchmarks. |
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Community Connections
Aligned with the belief that learning should be connected to the community and the world outside of the school, students in the CES Mentor Schools do much of their learning outside school walls, guided by mentors from the community. Family and community members are also involved in the intellectual life of the school and community partnerships are used to promote equitable access and outcomes.
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7/27/05 6:46 AM
by Gladys Melendez
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Essential Mathematics This forum thread is designed as a spill-over lot for conversations started on the Ask-A-Mentor: Essential Mathematics forum. Please use this space for further conversations and collaborations. |
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Growing Schools This forum is dedicated to discussing the issues, challenges, and possibilities that face new schools in their first few years of operation. Whether your school started with one grade and added grades each year or it began with all every grade, new schools face unique challenges to growing and sustaining teaching excellence, culture, and operations, among many other school-wide and classroom practices. Please post your experiences, thoughts, and questions here, and don't forget to ask a question to our panel in the Ask-A-Mentor section of this website. |
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9/29/08 2:18 PM
by Jay Feldman
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Inquiry Groups This forum is dedicated to discussions arising from the Small Schools Network Teacher Inquiry Groups for Equity. Please discuss logistics, content, findings, questions, and anything else related to your work in the Inquiry Groups. You may also create a sub-group for your particular topic as well. |
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3/15/09 11:53 AM
by Michael Soguero
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Leadership
The CES Mentor Schools have experienced success largely due to a leadership approach involving both high quality formal leadership and collaboration at every level. Mentor School principals act as instructional leaders and teachers have substantial authority over their work and time to collaborate. Decision-making is shared and communicates a tone of high expectations, trust, and decency.
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5/20/05 11:27 AM
by Randall Siebold
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School Practices
The CES Mentor Schools employ school practices that, although diverse, all maintain rigorous intellectual goals for all students, ensure each student is known well, model democratic practices, strive for equitable outcomes, and focus school and community resources on the school's intellectual purpose.
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4/23/07 11:45 AM
by Jill Johnson Andrews
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Teaching and Learning
The CES Mentor Schools approach teaching and learning with the assumption that all students can learn to use their minds well with the help of teachers who facilitate student inquiry and practice of skills and an individualized curriculum that emphasizes depth over breadth, seeing from multiple perspectives, and applying learning to new situations. Key to this approach is the development of professional learning communities in which teachers share practices and build upon one another's knowledge and skills.
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2/11/08 11:53 PM
by James Decker
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