Template+Envisioning+Multicultural+Schools

=**TEMPLATE ENVISIONING MULTICULTURAL SCHOOLS**=


 * Assignment 12/04/2012 **
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 * Please write each question above your response to it.**

1. As a tax payer, do you think the community volunteers watching the kids go to and from school should be paid for their services? What should the pay be? 2. What fears as a parent living in these areas would you face sending your child back and forth to school daily? If you were financially able to choose where to live, what factors would influence your choice of place? 3. As someone who knows that school is where the door opens for future employment and wealth accumulation, what you is your feeling about the situation of the mothers in the two reports? What do you think their options should be in their situations? Which do you think served justice, the decision of the parole board or the decision of the Ohio governor in the second of the two cases? 4. What are the two major innovations that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District is using to increase learning success for students? Have you heard of or seen either of these in any other school you know about? 5. Would these innovations influence you to apply to work in this district? Explain your reasons.
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**The central goal of TEAMS is envisioning schools where every student can reach her or his maximum potentia**l in all areas, curricular, social, and creative. **We call these places “multicultural schools” because they incorporate the cultures, backgrounds, intelligences, and interests of all students into how teaching and learning happens in and out of the classroom. Instead of the many achievement gaps that plague today’s educational system, multicultural schools are trying to remake schooling with the goal of creating educational equity and excellence for everyone.**

**Our last experiences in class will be to design schools of the future that meet the goals we have been examining throughout the semester.**


 * Reading and Listening Assignment: **

FIRST:

Listen to the two podcasts from NPR (You may read the transcripts as you listen, but please listen as there is more information on the podcast than is in the transcript.) Voices of Youth Radio reports San Francisco Bay area Students Find Danger Lurks To and From School: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120676307

Chicago's Silent Watchmen Guard School Route []

and read two recent reports. Stealing a Good Education? A homeless mother enrolls her child in the best school system locally and the school district prosecutes. http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2011/04/28/mother_pleads_not_guilty_in_school_enrollment_case/

A mother enrolls her daughters in a better, safer school and is arrested for the crime. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2011/0225/Jail-time-for-sneaking-kids-into-a-better-school-Was-justice-served

Update 9/26/11**: "Ohio Gov. John Kasich-going against the unanimous opinion of the Ohio Parole Board-reduced the charges Sept.7 from felony to misdemeanor charges so that Kelley Williams-Bolar would not have a felony record, which could block her hoped-for career in education." Christian Science Monitor: A Weekly Review Of Global News & Ideas, vol. 103/ issue 44**

**SECOND:**
==**Read about a city school district making changes to address the topics that we have been learning about in class and a****nswer the** **questions that follow.** ==

**The __Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District,__ North Carolina, winner of last year's prestigious Broad Prize for Urban Education**. **This innovative public school district instituted dramatically different methods to help learners achieve, read the report to learn what they are and answer the questions below.** http://education.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/education/high-schools/articles/2011/09/20/charlotte-mecklenburg-school-district-wins-prestigious-broad-prize

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