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The Walloon faculty are dedicated to showing the relevance, practicality, and high student challenge inherent in the progressive teaching methods recommended by national standards documents. We help schools to create classrooms that are highly experiential and active, with increased levels of student choice and responsibility, leading to high achievement as reflected on the customary measures of student performance. At each of our summer programs, we include all stakeholders in the educational process—teachers, parents, administrators, consultants, external partners, and students.
Our core philosophy is expressed in three recent books by Walloon staff members.
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Best Practice: New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools
By Steven Zemelman, Harvey Daniels, & Arthur Hyde
Heinemann / 1998 / Paper
An expanded and revised second edition of Zemelman, Daniels' and Hyde's Best Practice: New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools was released in1998 by Heinemann. Originally published in 1994, this was the first book to summarize all the key national curriculum standards, and to note their strong progressive consensus across subject areas and up through the grades. Best Practice has served as a resource in many school change projects, as a key text for teacher and parent study groups, and as the basis for many school district self-studies and long-term reform planning.
www.heinemann.com
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The Parent Project: A Workshop Approach to Parent Involvement
By Jim Vopat
Stenhouse / 1994 / Paper
Jim Vopat's The Parent Project outlines a curriculum-based parent involvement model acclaimed by the Clinton administration as one of the half-dozen most powerful parent education programs in the country. Illustrated with stories, pictures, and writings from parent and teacher workshops, the book shows how schools can involve parents not as superficial volunteers, but as full and genuine partners in the teaching and learning process. Jim's newest Stenhouse book, More Than Bake Sales, offers additional models, designs and resources.
www.stenhouse.com
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Methods that Matter: Six Structures for Best Practice Classrooms
By Harvey Daniels and Marilyn Bizar
Stenhouse / 1998 / Paper
Methods that Matter takes the principles outlined in Best Practice, and shows how skillful teachers bring them to life in real elementary and secondary classrooms across the country. Daniels and Bizar identify six basic instructional patterns that help decentralize the classroom, making learning more active for students, and allowing kids to meet the emerging national and local standards for higher-order thinking and the real-life application of schoolwork. The book is illustrated with stories from two dozen classrooms, from primary through high school and across the curriculum.
www.stenhouse.com
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