{"data":{"ID":596,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446435732,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Coalition of Essential Schools: Help Tell the Story of Its Legacy and Impact","Handle":"coalition_of_essential_schools--help_tell_the_story_of_its_legacy_and_impact","ShortDescription":"What is the legacy of the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) and the educators who are most closely associated with it, including but not limited to Ted Sizer and Deborah Meier? This conversation is for those who want to add their voices to the effort to understand CES\u2019s powerful impact.","Description":"Long regarded as the starting point of the movement to create and sustain powerful student-focused, educator-driven schools, the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) has created an extraordinary network to which most influential schools, educators, and thinkers in progressive education can trace their roots. In order to add to an archive that will help tomorrow\u2019s educators understand the impact of the powerful ideas that gave life to CES, we are reaching out to everyone who would like to share thoughts, stories, experience, reflections, critiques, and ideas about the Common Principles and related practices. This session will open with storytelling about various phases of CES\u2019s existence, starting with Ted Sizer\u2019s Horace\u2019s Compromise and moving through history to today\u2019s CES schools. We invite educators who have connections with CES at any or multiple points of its existence to share experiences, ask questions, and connect with the ongoing effort to document the CES\u2019s impact and influence. In addition to inviting stories from those who have had firsthand experience with CES as students or educators, we also welcome those who want to know more about the ways CES\u2019s founders captured the nation\u2019s interest with clear expressions and demonstrations of student-centered, teacher-driven progressive education. Please know that we\u2019re not seeking hagiography. We\u2019re also interested in input from those who feel that CES\u2019s impact was insufficient, or who otherwise have serious critiques of the organization. We also want to know what you hope a national organization that stands for academically vibrant, personalized, equitable, and challenging schools could and should do to influence supportive national, state, and local policies.","Link":["http:\/\/www.essentialschools.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This conversation will connect to CES\u2019s Year of Demonstration, a more extensive, year-long effort to document stories about and gain insight into the work and influence of the Coalition of Essential Schools. We will use conversational protocols and grouping to organize the participants into groups that include CES experts\/veterans, those who have some connection, and those who are new to the work. After a short presentation, groups will ask and answer questions, share stories, and distill themes and big ideas that shed light on CES's extensive influence on educational policies and practices in and beyond the United States. Participants will also add to a CES influence map that's being collaboratively constructed to document CES's reach and influence.","Presenter":["Jill Davidson"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Coalition of Essential School"],"PresenterEmail":["jill.davidson@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":61,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"I -- Jill Davidson -- am organizing this conversation in anticipation of specific activities that are likely to happen in 2016 related to the Coalition of Essential Schools' ongoing activities and future. I am likely to pull in additional participants and co-facilitators who have experience with CES and who want to share and learn more from others about the ways it has shaped our work as progressive educators.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5}}