New High Schools

Learn Science

Learning Science is a website that collects free science resources and relates them to science standards.  Here's a webshot for a K-4, Characteristics of Organisms. 

And one for a Grades 9-12 class on The Cell.

Project Driven Curriculum

Jenny Morgan designed this activity to stimulate deep thinking around a topic.  Download project_driven_curriculum_j_morgan_nxpowerlite.ppt

One Laptop per Child

The goal of this group founded by Nicholas Negroponte: To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves. read more

United Streaming

Discovery Education unitedstreaming

This flagship school service is the only digital video-based learning resource scientifically proven to increase academic achievement. Featuring more than 5,000 full-length videos segmented into 50,000 content-specific video segments, unitedstreaming allows teachers to seamlessly integrate its content into their curriculum. Today, more than half the schools across the United States are licensed to use unitedstreaming, benefiting more than 30 million students across the United States.

Intro video.

Internet Subscription
Lets schools stream and download unitedstreaming video content directly from the Internet -- without the addition of a server, additional software, or changes to infrastructure. Subscribers have access to administrative tools for local control, and have the ability to restrict streaming and downloading during peak Internet usage hours.
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Annual Site License
Discover the unitedstreaming core digital video package for K-12 schools:
$1,995 (per High School Building)	$1,495 (per K-8 building)

Center for Advanced Research and Technology

The Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART) is the most comprehensive, state-of-the-art education reform effort at the secondary level to date. The CART combines rigorous academics with technical, design, process, entrepreneurial, and critical thinking skills.

The 75,000 square foot CART facility, designed as a high performance business atmosphere, is organized around four career clusters. They are Professional Sciences, Engineering, Advanced Communications, and Global Economics. Within each cluster are several career-specific laboratories in which students complete industry-based projects and receive academic credit for advanced English, science, math, and technology.

Eleventh and twelfth grade students from the Clovis and Fresno Unified School Districts are bused to CART where they attend half-day classes in one of the laboratories taught by teams of instructors from both education and business. The partnership between the school districts is a unique opportunity to make systemic change in education and positively influence the future of all students in the San Joaquin Valley, a rapidly expanding economic area for high-tech business and agricultural firms.

CART provides a state-of-the-art research and technology facility where students design and complete projects in collaboration with partners from the local, national, and international business community. Through learning plans, individualized attention, and a coordinated sequence of projects, CART students explore the variety of ways they can achieve their career goals. Working with business partners, teachers, and parents, students design a program of study that qualifies them to pursue the post-secondary path of their choice from entry-level positions to industry certification to university admission. With the knowledge, skills, and support they receive, students leave CART ready to launch their careers.

CART Charter Download cart_charter.pdf

Fresno Regional Occupational Program

The Fresno Regional Occupational Program (ROP) is career technical education that empowers students to make meaningful career choices by providing opportunities to explore their interests, develop career skills, and reinforce academics, ROP also offers a wide range of additional educational benefits, including college credit for qualifying courses, industry certification, and interships when appropriate.

Offering over 148 courses in various career paths, Fresno ROP is available to high school students (16 years of age or in 11th or 12th grade) and adults, preparing them for further education at colleges and universities, employment, or advanced technical training. Areas of study include agriculture, arts, media & entertainment, business, engineering technology, health, home economics careers & technology, industrial & technology, and public & human services. Credentialed teachers with work experience in their subject area enrich classes with their first-hand knowledge.

Courses for this unique program are developed by dedicated business and industry advisory committees to ensure coursework is relevant to everchanging industry, community, and educational demands. These committees use local business input, labor market studies, emerging technologies and student interests to create a program that benefits students, employers and communities.

Serves Fresno, Madera and Mariposa counties.

Coalition for Essential Schools

For over twenty years, the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) has been at the forefront of creating and sustaining personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging schools. Essential schools are places of powerful student learning where all students have the chance to reach their fullest potential.

The CES Network and Essential Schools
The CES Network includes hundreds of schools and more than two dozen Affiliate Centers. Diverse in size, population, and programmatic emphasis, Essential schools serve students from pre-kindergarten through high school in urban, suburban, and rural communities, and they are characterized by personalization, democracy and equity, and intellectual vitality and excellence.

CES practice is exemplified by small, personalized learning communities where teachers and students know each other well in a climate of trust, decency and high expectations for all. Modeling democratic practices with a strong commitment to equity, Essential schools work to create academic success for every student by sharing decision-making with all those affected by the schools and deliberately and explicitly confronting all forms of inequity. And, Essential schools focus on helping all students use their minds well through standards-aligned interdisciplinary studies, community-based "real-world" learning and performance-based assessment.

Curriki

Curriki.org:  The Global Education & Learning Community

Our mission is to improve education around the world by empowering teachers, students and parents with user-created, open source curricula, and it's all free! We believe that access to knowledge and learning tools is a basic right of every child. Our goal is to make curricula and learning resources available to everyone.

Cofounded by Scott McNealy, chairman of sun Microsystems.  Used the Wikipedia model to create a collection of online courses, that can be updated, improved, vetted and built upon by innovative teachers.