And it helps that we're aligning with California's new frameworks and assessment. With a 13 percent student turnover rate, Lincoln no longer rests on the stability of suburbia. Instead, despite adverse circumstances that would have thrown many institutions into disarray, this school has developed a new kind of unity, founded on a more inclusive style of teaching and learning. Some administrators now teach in the classroom. A collaborative system of decision-making is in its early stages.
Parents come regularly to workshops, in Spanish and English, on issues of early adolescence.
Community mentors work with at-risk students. The actual earthquake, it seems, is now mere metaphor. Daily, Lincoln walks the fault line of change. This performance-based test of reading, writing, and mathematics skills was first administered throughout the state in 1993 as a baseline measure and given in 1994 to all students, though scores were not in at this writing. Kathleen Cushman A continuing series describing areas in which Essential Schools are demonstrating significant progress toward change using the Nine Common Principles.