"The coolest school in America"
Subtitle: how small learning communities are changing everything
By: edited by Doug Thomas, Walter Enloe, Ron Newell.
Contributors: Thomas, Doug, 1952-; Enloe, Walter, 1949-; Newell, Ronald J.
Publisher: ScarecrowEducation
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Minnesota New Country School (Henderson, Minn.) -- Case studies.; Education -- Minnesota -- Henderson -- Experimental methods -- Case studies.; Charter schools -- Minnesota -- Henderson -- Planning -- Case studies.; Project method in teaching -- Minnesota -- Henderson -- Case studies.; Individualized instruction -- Minnesota -- Henderson -- Case studies.; Education, Secondary -- Minnesota -- Henderson -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Little did we know / by Doug Thomas; title: Putting ideas to work / by Doug Thomas; title: Student ownership : teacher ownership / by Ron Newell; title: The EdVisions Project approach : facilitating student choice / by Ron Newell; title: Building learning community : the conscious pursuit of an idea / by Walter Enloe; title: Democratic circles / by Darrol Bussler; title: Experiential learning : why project-based learning works / by Scott Wurdinger; title: Teaching excellence through place-based projects / by James Lewicki; title: Some results of the learning communities; title: MNCS graduates : telling lived stories / by Peg Lonngquist, Vivian Johnson, and Walter Enloe; title: Constituting a democratic learning community : the Avalon experience / by Carrie Bakken, Caitlin Rude, and Andrea Martin; title: Why are these schools cool? : voices of the students and parents / by Ron Newell.