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How Small Schools Grew Up and Got Serious (But Didn’t Lose Their Spunk)

This article in the December 2010/January 2011 issue of Kappan Magazine describes how “leaders with a powerful vision of instruction were able to move ahead swiftly on reforms, generating the needed support in a variety of ways.”

High School SLC and Small School Reform Efforts - Lessons Learned

Small learning community and small school reform efforts have begun to falter in light of evaluations showing stalled implementation and limited impacts. However, this Lessons Learned brief gives reasons why these reforms are useful when coupled with further instructional improvements.

2010 SLC Priorities: Annotated Bibliography

The resources in this bibliography align with the 2010 federal Smaller Learning Communities (SLC) priorities. We have chosen resources that are research-based to ensure that they are reliable and available free online so that they are accessible. We hope that this resource will help you identify successful school reform strategies that result in improved student achievement and readiness for college and careers.

Recommended research-based resources for those engaged in improving secondary schools.

Recent Evidence of Positive Effects of Small Learning Communities: Publications, 2004–Present

Successful small learning communities, career academies, and small schools
share a common set of practices. Everything we do at Education Northwest is evidence-based, giving us a solid foundation upon which we stand with
confidence.

Improving the Quality and Use of Postsecondary Data

In response to the challenges of collecting data on post secondary outcomes, this guide helps high schools identify efficient and cost-effective strategies to find out what happens to their students after graduation. Readers get step-by-step guidance on how to collect postsecondary data using state longitudinal data systems, StudentTracker data warehouse, and student surveys

Creating Small Learning Communities

This summary defines and reviews research on the effectiveness of small learning communities, and organizes the practices effective communities use into five domains of best practice. The article outlines a process of continuous program improvement that schools use to move their small learning communities closer to these best practices.

From Comprehensive High Schools to Small Learning Communities: Accomplishments and Challenges

This article reviews a pattern of sustained growth and consolidation in organizing high schools into smaller learning communities over the last four decades. The article identifies instances where redesign has failed as a result of incomplete implementation, limited scope, and insufficient reorganization of resources, as well as examples of deeply rooted districtwide transformation.

Accelerated Support and Advanced Learning

This article profiles two high schools that have met the challenge to prepare students for postsecondary options. The schools require all students to take rigorous mathematics and science courses and provide them with the support they need to succeed.

The Top Priority: Teacher Learning

This article looks at school leaders that have been successful in shifting professional support toward effective teaching through embedded learning opportunities for teachers that promote focused collaboration around student achievement.

Creating Instructional Program Coherence

This research summary discusses how and why schools that build a coherent instructional program through common frameworks for curriculum, instruction, assessment, and learning climate achieve measurable improvements in student achievement. It also profiles schools’ work with Education Northwest to implement coherent programs.

From High School to Learning Communities

This booklet brings together tools and resources for implementing the practice of successful small learning communities and career academies.

Event Resources

2010 From Structure to Instruction Session Resources

Session materials from the 2010 From Structure to Instruction event.