What Would It Look Like If All Students Felt Included?
This is the first in a three-part series of articles about a new project at College Place Middle School in Edmonds, Washington. by Carol Frodge Last spring, as our principal Andy Rogers and I were thinking about what we could accomplish during my internship, we decided to create a small school within our larger school. We wanted to put into practice some of the organizational development processes and learning principles I have been developing through Western Washington University’s Administration Program and Leadership for Learning (LfL). LfL is a three-year international education leadership program. We saw this as a great opportunity to take part in collaborative leadership and transformational learning experiences. All teachers interested in participating in the small school were invited to come to a meeting at the end of March 2004. From the beginning we made it clear that we had no extra time nor staffing nor money. The design was to have 4 core teachers at each of the grade leve
