Schools I Like
What would the
kids say if we asked them what kind of school they'd like? That's
what England's Guardian newspaper did in June when they reprised
a public competition first conducted in 1967, in which kids across
England wrote essays about "The school that I'd like"
(edited by Edward Blishen, Penguin Education Special, England, 1969).
One 15-year old girl summed up school at that time as "institutions
of today run on the principles of yesterday". Has anything
changed?
The criteria
articulated by the English and American kids, The
Schools We'd Like, constitute appropriate Design Criteria for
the new high school: Safe, Respect, Personal, Interests, Experience,
Real World, Workspace, Tools.
What schools
do I like? My jobs at the American Federation of Teachers and the
Autodesk Foundation took me all over the country looking at interesting
schools. In the early 1990's I became the de facto travel agent
for people looking for the most innovative schools to visit? Want
to see the list from 1993? It's a kind of "what happenned to
them now"?
So below are
the schools that I like, in the new millenium. This list will be
expanded over time, but here's a start:
High
Schools
 2009
: Manor New Technology
High School
2009
: Sacramento New Technology High
School
2009
: Tech Valley High School
Napa
New Technology High School (NTHS)
Metropolitan
Regional Career and Technical Center
High
Tech High
Sir
Francis Drake High School, San Anselmo, CA: See Drake
Academics, Academy
X Projects, SeaDisc
Academy, Student
Projects, Virtual
Tour.
Boston: Fenway
High School, Boston
Arts Academy, TechBoston
Academy, Boston
Office of High School Renewal
UK Secondary
Schools: Ninestiles
School, Birmingham; Homewood
School, Tenterden, Kent; Maplesden
Noakes School, Maidstone, Kent; Hugh
Christie Technology College, Tonbridge, Kent; New
Line Learning, Kent.
Middle
Schools
Middle
School Whole School Reform Links
Saturn
School of Tomorrow (1989-2003) (grades 4-8)
Elementary
Schools
Alice
Carlson
Tule
Elk
Brookside
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