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About Core Knowledge® Common Knowledge, September 2004 |
October 12, 2004 |
| COMMON KNOWLEDGE™ |
THE
NEWSLETTER OF THE CORE KNOWLEDGE® FOUNDATION |
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Feature Articles: Core Knowledge Students Show 4-to-1 Advantage by Matthew Davis Travels with Cyndi by Cyndi Wells Santa Barbara Chalk Drawings by Diana Brewster Oglethorpe Charter School Earns National Acclaim by Mary Kathryn Hassett A Music Teacher of Note by Mary Kathryn Hassett A Minnesota Teacher Puts His Hunches to the Test by Bruce Rodgers National Conference Preview by Emily Cherry |
New member on the Core Knowledge Board of Directors |
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| Core Knowledge Students Show 4-to-1 Advantage | ||
| A rigorous new independent study that compared Core Knowledge schools in North Carolina to non-Core Knowledge schools in the same state has found that the Core Knowledge schools outperformed other schools in the state in achievement progress in both reading and math for four of the five grades that were studied. | ||
| Travels with Cyndi | ||
Although I enjoy the varied aspects of my work as Director of Teacher Development at the Foundation, my favorite part of the job is visiting teachers, students, and schools to see Core Knowledge in action across the country. When I journeyed last spring to Ft. Myers to visit Three Oaks Elementary School, the very first school to implement Core Knowledge, and Three Oaks Middle School, the very first middle school to do so, I didn't know what to expect. |
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| Santa Barbara Chalk Drawings | ||
 Core Knowledge was artistically represented this year at Santa Barbara's I Madonnari
festival.
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| Oglethorpe Charter School Earns National Acclaim | ||
 Congratulations
are in order for Oglethorpe Charter School in Savannah, Georgia.
They were one of only eight outstanding charter schools described in a
publication recently released by the U.S Department of Education's
Office of Innovation and Improvement.
You can link here to the entire chapter devoted to Oglethorpe in Successful Charter Schools. |
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| A Music Teacher of Note | ||
Crestwood students continued singing even as volcanic eruptions signaled
the last days of Pompeii. Veteran music teacher, Debra Lindsay conducted
the final chorus, leading some sixty elementary school students in a
multi-media recreation of this famous episode in Roman history. Sixth
graders playing Tacitus and Pliny the Younger were among the characters
who mourned the burial of the elegant city under the molten lava spewed by
Vesuvius.
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| A Minnesota Teacher Puts His Hunches to the Test | ||
| Bruce Rodgers reflects on his teaching of Core Knowledge in middle school and gives us a glimpse of a larger study he is doing on the influence of Core Knowledge on student achievement and student discipline. | ||
| 14th Core Knowledge National Conference | ||
| From March 3–March 5, 2005, the famously friendly city of Philadelphia will be the temporary home to upwards of 2,200 educators and administrators at the 14th Core Knowledge National Conference. The conference is an opportunity for participants to exchange ideas, expand their knowledge, and even receive college credit for professional development. |
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