#edvision

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

Our vision is to change schools and schooling by establishing a network of schools with fundamental differences in teaching, learning and leading which will provide meaningful options for students, parents and educators.