Advice from Vanguard High School
We visited Vanguard High school in New York City, which is home to 413 students. Vanguard opened in 1993 as part of the coalition of essential schools, which focuses on creating smaller more intimate learning environments. Vanguard is currently housed in the Julia Richmond Education Complex and shares the building with five other high schools. Unlike many of the public schools in New York City, Vanguard does performance-based assessments instead of standardized tests to measure what students have learned.
We interviewed Vanguard High School students Degora Anderson, Julissa Lopez, TJ Singletary, Katilin Nazario, Naquan Dodd and Declan Ryan and asked what education Advice they had for president Obama.
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“Seriously consider how to better urban school reform”
Warren Simmons is the Executive Director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Prior to joining the Institute in 1998, Dr. Simmons headed the Philadelphia Education Fund.
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“A common language on what excellent teaching and learning looks like”
Mike Feinberg is Co-Founder of the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Foundation and the Superintendent of KIPP Houston.
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Quality and Student Learning Communities: Doing does more
You can’t make a tomato bigger by weighing it and you won’t make kids smarter by constantly measuring a few of the things they may have learned through tests.
Education must do a better job of speaking to the why and how changing our schools and classrooms into QSLC’s – Quality Student Learning Communities through the creation of a positive and student-centered learning environment. This is perhaps more essential now than ever. The educational discussion needs to be about how educators will be encouraged to change their school and classrooms, as well as their own teaching focus. The focus needs to be on the quality of support, type [Read more...]
