2. Home Page
Contents
Purpose
History of Home pages
Reference
External Links
Purpose
To educate fellow teachers and students on some the new innovative and culturally relevant learning styles in different the school models
History of Home pages
In the early days of the world wide web in the first half of the 1990s, an important part of webpages belonged to students and teachers with a UNIX account in their
university.
Reference
1. Education, E. (2015) How it works: 10 design principles. Available at: http://eleducation.org/resources/design-principles (Accessed: 25 July 2016). In-text
citations: (Education, 2015)
2. Staff, N., Whitaker, M., Rivera, S. and Pennington, M. (2015) 41 most innovative K–12 schools in America. Available at: https://www.noodle.com/articles/innovative-schools-
2015 (Accessed: 25 July 2016). In-text citations: (Staff et al., 2015)
3. EDU692: Creativity, Culture and Global Contexts in Education Decision Making (2016a) Instructor Guidance Week 1. Available at:
http://classroom.ashford.edu/re/DotNextLaunch.asp?courseid=13011300&userid=41227977&sessionid=54051b9982&tabid=70556zJ9VEtiGA0pp+fKFHR3BrFuPKNFwnIt+
pSGfUKq/1Ll9bGOrUrE1FZR6nByt/JyUdnMt091G2LiFaVfIy40vUycxbu1bSfOmXAQUjX7aWOR/tWZQDK7pNU8x81h/fuGPOVe8lalqeXrwkYLyw==&sessionFirstAuthStore=tr
ue&macid=vMC664cUyuhamomeBXeRicKbErm4oxYSbOIQNpuwrv1eF+PQad7ppJzScMdgj3xKzzSYNTQlkdhrMf3SFQXlYMvzvwDnWXdVU1M6oYxKFg3fSTWced+dokGj0/5
suQxQm5f6NdBEKHQmkbO5avCXSOFu8tMl2ZSkiIb/tTPfANPV71PYGZHJNvmv9ALM1Uc6QKloAgUh/ihP4P+vP+RHMPGjWMbleaSVe4TFLA9d+aTKngXine+xLqOeYKqQtyQ
ZBp3+cVfVFq4Zige83IyD9hedN9LjJz9mkk/nnuSx/cLQmad5LSDMtNWFe+/FQjI5P+bcZKmpoukGO6en+euc8Q== (Accessed: 7 July 2016). In-text citations: (2016a)
4. Star (2013) STAR School. Available at: http://www.starschool.org/ (Accessed: 26 July 2016). In-text citations: (Star, 2013)
5. Home page (2016) in Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_page (Accessed: 26 July 2016). In-text citations: (Home page, 2016)
External Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_page
http://eleducation.org/resources/design-principles
https://www.noodle.com/articles/innovative-schools-2015
http://www.starschool.org/
3. Table of Contents
Public School: Clairemont Elementary School
Page 4: Link to Clairemont Elementary
Page 4: Location and General Demographic Information about the Students
Page 4: Description on Learning Experiences that Reflect Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Page 4: Description on the School and/or Program promoting creativity in the Classroom for the students and the teachers
Page 5: Summary of Clairemont Elementary School
Page 6: List of 21st Century Skills
Private School: Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences
Page 7: Link to Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences
Page 7: Location and General Demographic Information about the Students
Page 7: Description on Learning Experiences that Reflect Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Page 7: Description on the School and/or Program promoting creativity in the Classroom for the students and the teachers
Page 8: Summary of Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences
Page 9: List of 21st Century Skills
Charter School: STAR School
Page 10: Link to STAR School
Page 10: Location and General Demographic Information about the Students
Page 10: Description on Learning Experiences that Reflect Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Page 10: Description on the School and/or Program promoting creativity in the Classroom for the students and the teachers
Page 11: Summary for STAR School
Page 12: List of 21st Century Skills
Page 13: References
4. Public School
Clairemont Elementary School
https://www.noodle.com/articles/innovative-schools-2015#clairemont
Clairemont is located in Decatur, Georgia
Grades K-3
By Diversity and Inclusion increase the richness of idea, creative power,
problem-solving, and respect for other. In EL Education the students
investigate and value their different histories and talents as well as those
of other communities and cultures. Schools and learning groups are
heterogeneous.
Creativity is promoted in the classroom for both students and teachers by
studying on particular topics culminates with a journey in mind that leads
them to their educational goals and public presentation of lessons learned.
Expeditionary learning shows that it improves understanding of reading
and math in middle school students.
5. Clairemont Elementary School Summary
This school is innovative and unique by having the first Expeditionary Learning (EL) Institution in the
country. Expeditionary Learning (EL) style is defined as their curriculum is based on learning through
collaboration of exploration in and outside of the schoolrooms. Founded on 10 principles that
emphasize a connection to the natural world, a balance between collaboration with others and
competition with oneself, and a thirst for curiosity and self-discovery. (EL) reorients a typical classroom
model and emphasizes the “all members of the school community are learner.” The ten principles are
1) The Primacy of Self-Discovery
2) Having of Wonderful Ideas
3) Responsibility for Learning
4) Empathy and Caring
5) Success and Failure
6) Collaboration and Competition
7) Diversity and Inclusion
8) The Natural World
9) Solitude and Reflection
10) Service and Compassion
6. Clairemont Elementary School, 21st Century Skills List
1) Self-Discovery
2) Ideas
3) Responsibility for Learning
4) Collaboration
5) Competition
6) Diversity
7) Inclusion
8) Real World Experience
9) Solitude and Reflection
10)Curiosity
11)Compassion
12)Community Interaction
7. Private School
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences
https://www.noodle.com/articles/innovative-schools-2015#crossroads
Santa Monica, CA
Grades k-12
The Crossroads reflect cultural relevance by having classes that explore identity,
different cultures, and self-reflection through group therapy, writing activities, and
guided meditations.
The Crossroads school promotes creativity through everything they do because
they focus on the arts as well as the academic portion of their students education.
8. Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences Summary
Crossroads School is innovative and unique by being created by a small group of teachers and
parents. It was pioneered to be a social-emotional learning and holistic education. The name
was inspired by the Robert Frost poem, “The Road Not Taken,” characterizes it five main
commitments as an academic excellence, the arts, the greater community, diversity, and the
physical well-being for full human potential of each student. Environmental leadership is also a
critical component to Crossroads because all the students are required to complete a place-
based natural education class which they call Environmental and Outdoor Education. The class
are often week-long excursions like camping and studying poetry in the Owens Valley. The arts
carry equal weight with academics at Crossroads, and the students participate in “life skills”
courses meant to develop self-esteem, responsibility, and decision-making skills. Their
innovation goes to that 98-100 percent of their students pursue higher education because the
arts are so deeply woven into curriculum, many graduates become lauded filmmakers, actors,
writers, musicians, and are in the visual arts. They have created a cultivating, renowned chamber
orchestra and received the Columbia University Scholastic Press Award several publicans. They
have a holistic approach to student development, which focuses also on encouraging learners
to lead active and healthy lives, led the school to win several athletic championships, including
two state championships in the Upper School.
9. Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences, 21st Century
Skills Listed
self-esteem
Responsibility
decision-making
identity
culture
self-reflection
environmental leadership
real world experiences
Collaboration
10. Charter School
STAR School
https://www.noodle.com/articles/innovative-schools-2015#star
Flagstaff, AZ
Grades pre-k-8
The STAR School serves the students through culturally relevance through their
“Farm to School” program which practices a place-based curriculum that is grounded
in the Navajo tradition of valuing relationships-among themselves, with the
environment, an with the local community along with serving ALL Relations.
The school promotes creativity by living their daily lives as a testimony to creativity
because they did not have even things we do not worry about daily and they made a
way through solar and wind power to get their energy for daily use.
11. STAR School Summary
STAR School is unique and innovative by having the first all off-grid, solar and wind powered,
charter school in the country. Their sustainable living is a way of life that is intrinsic to the
community which the school serves. They promote self-reliance, alternative building methods, and
energy sources to run the school daily. They are a model of how they can be done even in their
community with few jobs, no public utilities, and high drop=out rates. They host workshops about
their unique curriculum, sustainable living, place-based education, culturally responsive education,
technology and the arts. The STAR (Service to ALL Relations) School is a charter elementary school
families are encouraged to enroll students in early to reserve a place for them because of limited
class sizes to allow for individual attention to each student. In 2012, the U.S. Department of
Education recognized STAR Charter School as a Green Ribbon School for promoting and practicing
sustainability. STAR is the only school in the district and it provides an education to about 130
students in the region who would not otherwise have access to formal pre-k to eight-grade learning.
The school is predominantly low-income student body has a 96 percent attendance rate and meets
the state’s annual measurable objectives in reading and math. The Service to ALL Relation School
will be expanding their environmental awareness beyond planet Earth because a students, Kiril
Kirkov, a Coconino Community College students received funding from the NASA Space Program at
Northern Arizona University to bring the elementary school students to CCC campus twice a month.
They will be able to work with the astronomy experts and use scientific equipment to study the stars.
12. STAR School, 21st Century Skills Listed
Community Oriented
Real World Experience
Innovation
Creativity
decision-making
Responsibility in their education
Problem-Solving
13. Reference:
Education, E. (2015) How it works: 10 design principles. Available at:
http://eleducation.org/resources/design-principles (Accessed: 25 July 2016). In-text
citations: (Education, 2015)
Staff, N., Whitaker, M., Rivera, S. and Pennington, M. (2015) 41 most innovative K–12 schools in
America. Available at: https://www.noodle.com/articles/innovative-schools-2015 (Accessed: 25 July
2016). In-text citations: (Staff et al., 2015)
EDU692: Creativity, Culture and Global Contexts in Education Decision Making (2016a) Instructor
Guidance Week 1. Available at:
http://classroom.ashford.edu/re/DotNextLaunch.asp?courseid=13011300&userid=41227977&sessioni
d=54051b9982&tabid=70556zJ9VEtiGA0pp+fKFHR3BrFuPKNFwnIt+pSGfUKq/1Ll9bGOrUrE1FZR6nByt
/JyUdnMt091G2LiFaVfIy40vUycxbu1bSfOmXAQUjX7aWOR/tWZQDK7pNU8x81h/fuGPOVe8lalqeXrwk
YLyw==&sessionFirstAuthStore=true&macid=vMC664cUyuhamomeBXeRicKbErm4oxYSbOIQNpuwrv
1eF+PQad7ppJzScMdgj3xKzzSYNTQlkdhrMf3SFQXlYMvzvwDnWXdVU1M6oYxKFg3fSTWced+dokGj0/
5suQxQm5f6NdBEKHQmkbO5avCXSOFu8tMl2ZSkiIb/tTPfANPV71PYGZHJNvmv9ALM1Uc6QKloAgUh/
ihP4P+vP+RHMPGjWMbleaSVe4TFLA9d+aTKngXine+xLqOeYKqQtyQZBp3+cVfVFq4Zige83IyD9hedN
9LjJz9mkk/nnuSx/cLQmad5LSDMtNWFe+/FQjI5P+bcZKmpoukGO6en+euc8Q== (Accessed: 7 July
2016). In-text citations: (2016a)
Home page (2016) in Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_page (Accessed: 26
July 2016). In-text citations: (Home page, 2016)
Star (2013) STAR School. Available at: http://www.starschool.org/ (Accessed: 26 July 2016). In-text
citations: (Star, 2013)
