Chapter 6: Organizing Relationships for Learning

In chapter 6, Organizing Relationships for Learning, Jackson and Davis talk about the different ways to organize large schools to create more intimate learning environments for our young adolescents. The authors suggest many different ways of doing this. These include making houses or "schools-within-school", creating teams, different kinds of scheduling, and advisories. I had heard of all of these before, and have even had one on one experiences with some of them, but I have never heard of houses before. I liked these ideas. I believe with Jackson and Davis when they say that no school should exceed 600 students so that they groupings of students and educators is small enough to "stimulate the development of close, supportive relationships. The "small schools movement" is happening now and I like the idea of it. By opting to restructure a large school into two to four separate, autonomous schools-within-schools there will be a better learning environment.