CPSC CHARTER: Charter Footnotes

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From our original charter which was applied for as "The Community School for Children." in 2001.

note 1 - Learning By Doing: A History of the Duke School for Children, by Gretchen Case, September 2000, page 19.

note 2 - Learning By Doing, page 24.

note 3 - "Learning communities" are well researched and demonstrated particularly well in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge and in Smart Schools, Smart Kids by Edward B. Fiske (see resumes of Board of Directors).

note 4 - Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences," by Howard Gardner.

note 5 - See School Development Program, James P. Comer, Yale University.

note 6 - Coalition of Essential Schools Fieldbook, "Defining Assessment'"

note 7 - Coalition for Essential Schools Fieldbook: "Assessing Your Assessment System"

note 8 - Carol Gestwicki, Developmentally Appropriate Practice.

note 9 - Gestwicki, p.54.

note 10 - Gestwicki, p.324.

note 11 - Gestwicki, p.250.

note 12 - All of these examples are taken almost directly from The Educational Program of the Duke School for Children, by Margaret Mason.