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What Does Healthy Really Mean

WebNative American Community Academy Mission NACA students will grow from adolescence to adulthood while successfully completing a college preparatory curriculum, learning the …

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Infusing Curriculum And School Structure With Mind-Body Wellness

WebCES Mentor School Eagle Rock is a year-round, residential, and full-scholarship school that enrolls 96 young people from 15 to 17 years of age from around the United States in an …

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Where to Go for More: Resources for Wellness and the Mind-Body

WebUnnatural Causes Unnatural Causes is a seven-part documentary on health equity that aired on PBS in March 2008 and is available on DVD. The documentary’s episodes …

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Health Week: A Wellness Immersion Coalition of Essential Schools

WebAt the end of each trimester at Compass School, classes are suspended for week-long immersions in rich, problem-based learning experiences. During Health Week, …

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Essential Questions Coalition of Essential Schools

WebEssential questions are relevant to students’ lives and passions and ask students to connect the topic to experiences, observations, feelings, or situations significant in their lives. …

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Working with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families

WebIn this excerpt from “Working with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families,” Bruns and Corso offer the following suggestions for creating the best conditions for student and …

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Notes on this Issue Coalition of Essential Schools

WebThough Horace has existed for 24 years as the cartographer of the Coalition of Essential Schools’ terrain, this issue marks the first time we have explored the connection between …

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Dos and Don’ts with Refugee Students Coalition of Essential …

WebNakayama led “Dos and Don’ts with Refugee Students,” a roundtable discussion at CES’s 2002 Fall Forum and shared this summary of strategies and suggestions: Do. Have high …

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Issue 2 Volumes – Issues Coalition of Essential Schools

WebHorace Volume 24 | 2008 | Issue 2 . Wellness and the Mind-Body Connection: This issue investigates the connections between mind, body, and learning, focusing on …

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Advisory Program Research and Evaluation

WebEven so, many schools regularly evaluate their advisory programs, and numerous studies examine issues commonly targeted in advisory, such as school culture and students’ …

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Addendum: Parker Charter Essential School’s Wellness Program

WebWellness is an integrated curriculum combining aspects of traditional health classes with physical education, games, fitness skills and other mind-body connection skills.

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Another Way of Measuring Up: One Schools Graduation …

WebAs students prepare for graduation at Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a high school of 450 students in an East Harlem neighborhood in New York City, they work …

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Democracy and equity Coalition of Essential Schools

WebThe school should demonstrate non-discriminatory and inclusive policies, practices, and pedagogies. It should model democratic practices that involve all who are directly …

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Interdisciplinary Curriculum Coalition of Essential Schools

WebAn interdisciplinary curriculum combines several school subjects into one active project or is organized to cut across subject-matter lines, bringing together various aspects of the …

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Elements of Smallness Create Conditions for Success

WebElements of Smallness Create Conditions for Success: Examines how sustained efforts to incorporate the Ten Common Principles support small schools as they make the most of …

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The Power of Service-Learning: One School’s Quest

WebQuest High School is an eleven-year old school designed by teachers, administrators, students and community members. We are a small school of 235 students, an …

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Good Teaching Is a Conversation Coalition of Essential Schools

WebFenway joined the Coalition of Essential Schools in 1989 and moved to its current location, which it shares with Boston Arts Academy, in 1998. Fenway is a Boston Pilot School and …

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Performance Based Assessment Coalition of Essential Schools

WebPerformance Based Assessment (33) While any assessment system should include multiple assessment types that are matched with the needs of teachers (to make decisions …

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