Growth and Learning in Accelerated Schools [microform] : Big Wheels and Little Wheels Interacting / Ilse Brunner and Wendy Hopfenberg
- Bib ID:
- 5560610
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Brunner, Ilse
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED360449
Broken link? let us search Trove , the Wayback Machine , or Google for you.
- Description:
-
- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1992
- 48 p.
- Summary:
-
The Accelerated Schools Project has the overall purpose of creating the best schools for all children so that every child has the opportunity to become a creative, critical, and productive member of society. The project represents a philosophy and a process for transforming conventional schools into accelerated ones where powerful learning experiences are daily occurrences for all members of the school community. The three central principles of accelerated schools are: unity of purpose through active collaboration of parents, teachers, students, staff, and community; empowerment through responsibility; and building on strengths. The Accelerated Schools Project staff develops, refines, and transmits the model to school practitioners who actually use the model to transform school communities. The concept of "big wheels" and "little wheels" interacting has helped participants in the Accelerated Schools Project make sense of the changes occurring in accelerating school sites. The "big wheels" are the formal, explicit components of the state-of-the-art accelerated schools model that are bought into by all participants. For school communities, involve engaging collaboratively in bringing the model to life. The "little wheels", on the other hand, are the spin-offs of the public and collaborative big wheel experiences; they are the informal innovations that individuals and small groups initiate as a result of participating in big wheel activities. Two case studies from an inner-city middle school demonstrate the interactions of the big and little wheels in the areas of family involvement and instruction. These case studies illustrate that all components of the accelerated schools model have the potential to spin off little wheels and that design and implementation are necessarily integrated. (SLD)
- Notes:
-
- Availability: Accelerated Schools Project, Center for Education Research at Stanford 109, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-3084.
- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 20-24, 1992).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
-
- Academic Achievement
- Case Studies
- Community Development
- Educational Change
- Educational Cooperation
- Educational Innovation
- Educational Responsibility
- Elementary School Students
- Intermediate Grades
- Middle School Students
- Middle Schools
- Models
- Parent Participation
- School Based Management
- School Restructuring
- Teacher Expectations of Students
- Teaching Methods
- Accelerated Schools
- Teacher Empowerment
- Other authors/contributors:
- Hopfenberg, Wendy, author
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1992
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.