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Videos & Films about Avalon
A Tale of Two Charters, EdWeek
A Cure for the Common Classroom - a feature-length documentary premiering soon!
Avalon's Awards
Minnesota Association of Charter Schools' Innovation Award
2017 - New and Innovative Methods for Measuring Student Outcomes - Project Rubric
2019 - Increase Learning Opportunities for Students - Senior Project
Outstanding Educator Awards
Four Avalon Advisors have won Outstanding Educator Awards for Ethics in Education. Carrie Bakken, Tim Quealy, Gretchen Sage-Martinson, and Nora Whalen have been recognized as either state-wide or regional winners.
National Promising Practice Awards from Character Education Partnership
2009 - MN Award for our Student Governance Model
2012 - MN and National Award for Project Based Learning within an Advisory System
2013 - MN and National Award for ReadBrave Bookclub
2014 - MN and National Award for the Feminism Club
2016 - MN and National Award for New Student Orientation
2019 - MN Award for Roundatble Discussion around Race, a partnership with Macalester College.
Extraordinary Achievement Award from Education Evolving (2017)
Academic Research about Avalon
Cultivating life skills at a project-based charter school
Scott Wurdinger, Walter Enloe - Improving Schools
Measuring life skills, hope, and academic growth at project-based learning schools
Ron Newell, En Sun Kim - Improving Schools
Can Teachers Run Their Own Schools?
Charles Kerchner, Claremont University
Where I Bloomed: Exploring Teacher Professional Vitality in the Teacher-Powered School
Sara Kemper, University of Minnesota
Books about Avalon
Deeper Learning: How Eight Innovative Public Schools Are Transforming Education in the Twenty-First Century by Monica Martinez, Dennis McGrath
A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education by Richard Kahlenberg, Halley Potter
Trusting Teachers with School Success: What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots by Kim Farris-Berg, Edward Dirkswager
Deeper Learning, Deeper Leading by Walter Enloe
Articles about Avalon
Avalon School Profile, Pioneering Magazine
This is How You Empower Educators to Transform Education, Education ReImagined
What It's Like to Take Ownership of Your Own Learning, Center for Teaching Quality
And the Teachers Shall Lead, Teach to Lead, US Department of Education
The Original Charter School Vision, New York Times
To Improve Schools, Let Teachers Run Them, Washington Post
The Evolution of the Chartered School, EdWeek
The Teacher-Powered Schools Movement, Forbes
Lessons from the Innovators: Discussion Starters for Creating a Teacher-Powered School
What happens when Teachers run the School?, Hechinger Report
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