Oct 4, 2020 | Coping with COVID19, Education Hot Topics, small classrooms, Small School Benefits, Small Schools Coalition Members
The Small Schools Coalition is moving our Coping with COVID-19 series from coast-to-coast… by following up our article on The Grauer School in Encinitas, California with today’s spotlight on our friends at CELC Middle School in Branford, Connecticut. CELC...
Sep 21, 2020 | Education Hot Topics, small classrooms, Small School Benefits, small school curricula, Small Schools Coalition Members
The education community is experiencing an unprecedented situation. Methods of instruction and delivery have been thrown completely on their heads… while also turned upside down and backwards. In the spirit of adversity breeding true human empowerment, we...
Feb 2, 2020 | Educational Philosophies, Letters From Friends, small classrooms, Small School Benefits, small school curricula, Small Schools Coalition Members
One of the most amazing things about small learning communities is Universality. Within this Universality, the Small Schools Coalition celebrates the cultures and curricula that make each and every small school the world over unique. In this spirit, we are very...
Dec 2, 2019 | Letters From Friends, small classrooms, Small School Benefits, Small Schools Coalition Members
Community involvement is a foundational cornerstone of every successful small school. In fact, schooling was synonymous with a community’s culture; up until only about 150 years ago, when centralized education ushered in large institutions and standardized curricula....
Sep 25, 2019 | Educational Philosophies, small classrooms, Small School Benefits, small school curricula
“The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn’t need to be reformed — it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual...
Sep 3, 2019 | Educational Philosophies, small classrooms, Small School Benefits, small school curricula
“We must recognize that our children and students need to know we appreciate who they really are, not just some vision we have for who they are supposed to be.” Dr. Stuart Grauer Ed.D. Founder and Head of School, The Grauer School Benchmarking schools and students is...
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