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A Pedagogical Blueprint for Human Flourishing
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In A Pedagogical Blueprint for Human being Flourishing: Transforming Schools with the McCallister Model, Cynthia McCallister presents a revolutionary prototype for education that is practical, conceptually disarming, and grounded in gimmicky behavioral science theory. Beginning with the assertion that equality of educational opportunity depends on access to experiences that are sufficiently appropriate and rich to enable the achievement of diverse human potentials, she provides a comprehensive school design for intervention that demonstrates how to achieve it. Grounded in recent advances in learning scientific discipline, McCallister asserts three necessary weather for learning: the need for learners to have access to diverse, rich environmental experiences; the need for them to enjoy primal freedom and autonomy to direct their own learning; and access to full and free forms of clan. In her model, these conditions provide what is necessary for learners to coordinate their minds with others to develop their identities, personalities, and talents. These conditions are animated in concrete procedures that tin be adapted to a wide variety of populations in formal, informal, and remote educational settings. The procedures have the grade of rules that learners comply with in the exercise of their freedom. When they are followed, the rules provide a grammar for the social norms that govern the moral worlds of learners and compel them to flourish. Tested over two decades in her work as a teacher, scholar, and school reformer in more than than 20 NYC public schools, the McCallister Method has delivered an innovative and disruptive approach to schooling that has proven successful in finally transforming low-performing industrial schools into 21st-century learning organizations.

Online back up material includes assessments, records, surveys, and more to be used in schoolhouse design and classroom settings.

Table of Contents

Department I: Groundwork;  one: Schooling the Possible Self: Introduction to a Learner-centered Educational Model;  2: The schools we have;  3: A Positive Learning Paradigm ;  Section Two: A Pedagogy for the Self;  4: The McCallister Method: Program Design;  5 Sparks: A Learner-facing Personalized Curriculum;  six: The Cultural Capital Curriculum ;  Department III: An Activity Curriculum: The Learning Cultures Formats; seven: The Learning Environment and the Work Time Format;  viii: Lessons;  9: The Learning Conference Format;  10: The Learning Share Format;  eleven: The Writing Conference Format;  12: The Writing Share Format;  thirteen: The Pretend Play Format;  fourteen: The Cooperative Unison Reading Format;  15: The Learning Teams Format;  xvi: The Integrative Math Format;  17: The Language Games Format;  Section IV: The "We" Curriculum: Social Norms; xviii: Keepers of the Civilization: The Social Norms Curriculum;  xix: The Academic and Beliefs Intervention Formats;  Section V: The Ecosystem Curriculum;  20: Whole-school Transformation: The Ecosystem Design;  21: The Assessment Program;  22: The Ceremonious Rights Program;  23: The Community Pedagogy Plan;  24: The Curriculum Program;  25: The School Culture Program;  26: The Training Program;  Department Six: Being Proof;  27: At that place are learning cultures;  28: Transforming a large NYC high school;  29: The Urban Associates's McCallister-Learning Cultures Initiative;  30. The "Rise of the Phoenix";  31: Decision: Shapes

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Biography

Cynthia McCallister is an Associate Professor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University.

Reviews

"In this piece of work Cynthia McCallister draws from a rich palette of theory and practice, and with a fine bristle brush paints for united states of america a detailed, rigorous, and coherent picture for designing schools as learning cultures. The emphasis on relational process in learning is particularly compelling, and the applicability of the design is impressive."

Kenneth J. Gergen, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, Swarthmore College

"Cynthia McCallister's original and widely tested blueprint for classroom learning
activities, 'Learning Cultures,' meets the mandates of the school curriculum while assuasive learners the liberty necessary for them to accept responsibility for
their own learning."

David R. Olson, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto

"Dr. McCallister has designed an approach to literacy educational activity that is highly effective and generating impressive results at the schools where information technology has been implemented.  In her arroyo, Learning Cultures, non only do students do more reading and writing, they likewise learn how to collaborate and provide each other with constructive feedback.  For educators and researchers who are looking for ways to heighten literacy and learning in schools this book volition be a tremendous resource."

Pedro A. Noguera, Ph.D.

Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean

Academy of Southern California Rossier Schoolhouse of Education

"As a geneticist interested in education, I didn't expect to like Learning Cultures. Genetics research shows that differences in the schools we have don't make much of a difference in children'due south achievement. Yet, I am impressed with Cynthia McCallister's book because it fits so well with my findings on the genetic individuality of children in how well they learn. Based on McCallister's extensive educational feel, Learning Cultures describes practical formats and social norms that requite children the liberty they need to observe their appetites and aptitudes."

Robert Plomin, Ph.D.

Medical Research Council Research Professor in Behavioural Genetics at the Constitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience

Kings College London

"Later more than two decades of action research in NYC One thousand-12 schools, Cynthia McCallister now offers an innovative education model based on what is known nearly how children acquire and how schools operate in big, bureaucratic systems. Her whole-school model, proven to raise accomplishment in multiple NYC schools, holds promise to address the urgent trouble of substantive school reform."

Shael Polakow-Suransky, M.Ed.

President, Banking company Street College of Education

Erstwhile Deputy Chancellor, New York Metropolis Department of Pedagogy

"Cynthia McCallister has achieved something very rare: a design for educational curricula (and their institutionalization) that is firmly grounded in research and theory from developmental psychology. She grounds her educational proposals in what is scientifically known most the nature of children's learning and cognitive development, especially the of import role of cooperative social interaction and classroom culture. This book should exist mandatory reading for all educators."

Michael Tomasello, Ph.D.

James F. Bonk Distinguished Professor

Duke University