Success Stories

Models of Success

Please share what's working in your school community on the Discussion Board. All submissions will be considered for possible inclusion in our facilitation guide.

Julia Morgan School for Girls, Oakland CA

The school is a model for the many ways in they have built an environment around most of practices advocated by the film, such as: not grading, limiting homework, down-playing standardized testing,

Big Picture schools inspire high school students

Last week I visited The Met Sac, a dependent charter high school (with 230 students) within the Sacramento City Unified School District (50,000 students).

Alan Shusterman, Founder of the School for Tomorrow

 Alan Shusterman, who lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland with his wife and three children, is the founder of School for Tomorrow (SFT), an independent nonprofit secondary

Student Advocacy.

Student advocacy. Someone asked about this at the screening this week at Black Pine Circle.

School for Tomorrow

I'm thrilled to share a link to a new private 6-12 school in Rockville, Maryland I learned about on Sara Bennett's StopHomework site.

Palm Beach- Parents and Educators Make Their Voices Heard

Parents and educators successfully halted a controversial academic program being pushed by the school   board. The plan consisted of frequent testing, a common curriculum intended to be t

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