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Beverly Moore oral history interview, 2005 May 27
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Creator
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Moore, Beverly, 1947-
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Date Created
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2005-05-27
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Subjects--Topical
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Open plan schools, Special education, Exceptional children, Teachers
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Description
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Beverly Moore discusses her experience with behaviorally and emotionally disturbed children, and her connection with the open school program in Charlotte. While Ms. Moore began her career in the Columbia, South Carolina school district, she eventu...
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Brenda Bilal oral history interview 1, 2005 January 6
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Creator
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Bilal, Brenda, 1950-
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Date Created
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2005-01-06
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Subjects--Topical
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Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, Multiculturalism, Educational tests and measurements, Active learning, Independent study
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Description
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In part one of this two-part interview, Brenda Bilal discusses her experience with open education in the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system. Ms. Bilal describes open education as a method that gives students the opportunity to think creatively, m...
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Brenda Bilal oral history interview 2, 2005 January 13
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Creator
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Bilal, Brenda, 1950-
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Date Created
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2005-01-13
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Subjects--Topical
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Open plan schools, Multiculturalism, Educational tests and measurements, Active learning, Independent study
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Description
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In part two of this two-part interview, Brenda Bilal continues discussing her experience with open education in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. Ms. Bilal criticizes the current trend in mainstream education at the time of interview of inc...
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Carol Newman oral history interview 1, 2005 December 14
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Creator
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Newman, Carol, 1946-2007
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Date Created
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2005-12-14
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Subjects--Topical
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Open plan schools, Student-centered learning, Teachers, Experiential learning, Teachers--In-service training
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Description
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Carol Newman, longtime administrator with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) system discusses her involvement with the city's open school program between 1974 and the 1990s. Mrs. Newman describes her early interest in open education, whi...
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Carol Newman oral history interview 2, 2006 February 23
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Creator
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Newman, Carol, 1946-2007
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Date Created
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2006-02-23
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Subjects--Topical
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Open plan schools, Student-centered learning, Teachers, Experiential learning, Teachers--In-service training, Magnet schools, Federal aid to education, School integration
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Description
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In this second interview, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) administrator Carol Newman continues to discuss the successes and challenges of the city's open schools program, but also focuses on the emergence and significance of magnet school...
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Daniel Ford Faris oral history interview, 2005 June 22
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Creator
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Faris, Daniel Ford, 1944-
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Date Created
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2005-06-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Open plan schools, Teachers, Language arts (Middle school), Teaching teams, Grading and marking (Students), School discipline--Evaluation, Student-centered learning, Active learning, Mixed ability grouping in education
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Description
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Teacher Daniel Ford Faris describes the open education learning environment at Piedmont Open Middle School between 1977 and 1997. He discusses his methods of teaching students and compares his teaching methods during his time at Spaugh Middle Scho...
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Linda Bellamy oral history interview, 2005 October 25
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Creator
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Bellamy, Linda, 1952-
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Date Created
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2005-10-25
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Subjects--Topical
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English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Open plan schools, Teachers, Multiculturalism
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Description
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Linda Bellamy talks about her career at Irwin Elementary and her work in developing the English as a second language (ESL) program in the school. Ms. Bellamy reflects on the challenges she faced in developing this program and in teaching ESL stude...
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Martha O'Neill oral history interview, 2005 August 12
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Creator
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O'Neill, Martha, 1956-
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Date Created
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2005-08-12
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Subjects--Topical
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Open plan schools, Drama in education, Arts in education, Musicals, School field trips, Sex instruction, Teachers
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Description
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Martha O'Neill shares her experiences as a drama teacher at Piedmont Open Middle School in Charlotte. She describes the characteristics of open education as it was understood and practiced within the school, including a focus on the whole child, a...
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Pamela Grant oral history interview, 2005 May 31
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Creator
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Grant, Pamela M., 1942-
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Date Created
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2005-05-31
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Subjects--Topical
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Open plan schools, Open learning, Social sciences--Study and teaching (Secondary)
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Description
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Pamela M. Grant recounts her twenty-six year teaching career at Piedmont Open Middle School. Mrs. Grant became involved with the open learning movement in education during the late 1960s, and gave up a career in academia in order to teach at Piedm...
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Sherrill Coutourier oral history interview, 2005 October 19
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Creator
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Coutourier, Sherrill, 1948-
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Date Created
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2005-10-19
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Teachers, Open plan schools, Student-centered learning, Parent-teacher relationships, Education--Parent participation
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Description
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Sherrill Coutourier discusses her experiences as a teacher in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' open schools program from the 1970s to the 1990s. Topics discussed includes the benefits of open education for both students and teachers, parental i...
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Sonja Gantt oral history interview, 2004 December 8
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Creator
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Gantt, Sonja, 1965-
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Date Created
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2004-12-08
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Subjects--Topical
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Open plan schools, Teacher-student relationships, Student activities, African American students, Students--Social life and customs, Active learning
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Sonja Gantt, daughter of former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt, describes her experience as a student at Piedmont Open Middle School in Charlotte, North Carolina in the late 1970s. She discusses the cohesion of the student body, influential teachers...
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Sue Spayth Riley oral history interview, 2005 September 13
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Creator
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Riley, Sue Spayth, 1920-2006
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Date Created
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2005-09-13
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Subjects--Topical
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Unitarian Universalist churches--Education, Open plan schools, Education, Preschool--Curricula, Preschool teachers, School integration, Progressive education--Philosophy, Teacher-student relationships
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Sue Spayth Riley describes her experiences as the founder and director of Charlotte's first integrated and open preschool, the Open Door School. Ms. Riley attributes her decision to establish the Open Door School to a combination of influence...