Tribes, A New Way of Learning and Being Together

Education & Teaching

Jeanne Gibbs

Schools & Teaching

Center Source

The administrators and school leaders who helped to plan this book were clear that it should define the why, what and how of using the process of Tribes Learning Communities® at a management and leadership level. In this 128-page book, readers will learn why and how the positive Tribes TLC® culture, if carefully facilitated, will develop community throughout an entire educational system. School leaders and educators will gain an additional framework for participatory planning and will understand how to initiate, support and sustain the Tribes Learning Community process over a long period of time throughout the whole school community.

Guiding Your School Community to Live a Culture of Caring and Learning: The Process is Called Tribes

CenterSource Systems, LLC

Tribes : A New Way of Learning and Being Together

This new book motivates and supports middle level schools to make the full range of young adolescents developmental growth and learning needs the over-riding focus of the whole school community. The author presents a lively synthesis of a wealth of research studies and effective practices, which underlie the Tribes Learning Community developmental approach. The major emphasis on middle level schools becoming responsive to the contextual basis of adolescent development leads not only to greater achievement and success for students but a new spirit, energy and the discovery of gifts throughout the whole school community. The book contains 448 pages, 138 active learning strategies, an extensive bibliography, resource section and index. 2007.

Discovering Gifts in Middle School - Learning in a Caring Culture Called Tribes

This comprehensive book provides the research-based framework, pedagogy, concepts and strategies that are essential for engaging all by creating high school learning communities. Topics discussed include critical indicators of the very different needs of 21st century youth, voices of students themselves, and a consensus of recommendations from the literature and studies, including the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). Readers will explore the most promising strategy for sustained, substantive school improvement that of building the capacity of school personnel the insiders to function as a collegial learning community, in which teachers collaboratively learn together, tailor curricula to ways in which students of today's world best can learn, support each other in implementation, and reflect together continuously on their own enhanced learning as well as that of their students. Readers will understand why and how the research-based developmental process of Tribes Learning Communities, when implemented well, can transform the culture, structures and pedagogy of the whole high school system particularly one committed to preparing today's students for an entirely different era the Era of Learning.

Engaging All by Creating High School Learning Communities

ED.D.

Teri Ushijima

Centersource Systems

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