Feinstein High School

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Feinstein High School
544 Elmwood Avenue
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Redesign and rebirth

• In the spring of 2001, Superintendent Diana Lam
  announced that Feinstein High School would be
  closed and reopened as a new model high school.
• A team of teachers and administrators worked
  through the spring to create a new design for the
  school.
• A new staff was hired. They worked through the
  summer to prepare the opening of the "new"
  Feinstein in September.

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School Administration
Principal Nancy Owen Ms. Owen comes to
Feinstein from the Charles Fortes Magnet Academy.
She has been recognized locally and nationally
for her leadership in creating at Fortes a
community dedicated to powerful and engaging
learning. Fortes has also been a leader in
adoping laptop computers for the classroom.
Dean of Teaching and Learning K.C. Perry
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Guiding Principles
Unity of Purpose
Our school has a unified philosophy of teaching
and learning. Each member of our staff has made
a commitment to these principles.
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Guiding Principles
Empowerment and Responsibility
At Feinstein, students and teachers are
responsible for achieving a clear set of
standards. We are empowered to make decisions
that affect our efforts.
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Guiding Principles
Building on Strengths
We see potential in each other, our students,
families and community. We search out strengths
and build on the individual.
One of Donetta Gomes' strengths is photography.
She took many of the pictures in this
presentation.
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• Principles of Learning
• Organizing for Effort
• Clear Expectations
• Academic Rigor in a Thinking Curriculum
• Accountable Talk
• Fair and Credible Evaluations
• Learning as Apprenticeship

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School Governance
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School One and School Two

• School Two
• Increasing level of achievement on standards
• Building on strengths
• Independent learning opportunities
• Internships
• College classes
• Distance Learning
• Advanced placement
• Ends with full diploma

• School One
• Working toward standards
• Developing independent learning skills
• Ends with a Certificate of Initial Mastery

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School One Standards

• National Center for Education and the EconomyNew
  Standards
• English
• Mathematics
• Science
• Applied Learning
• National Council for the Social Studies Standards
• Rhode Island Health Standards

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Keeping Track of All This Stuff

• The success of our assessment system is dependent
  on the development of an information technology
  infrastructure to store, process and analyze
  student work and progress toward standards.

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Information Infrastructure Project
We have begun a project to develop a new student
information system in collaboration with the
Northwestern University and the University of
Chicago, funded by the MacArthur Foundation. Our
current prototypes have been built using Zope, a
free web application platform.
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