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From Structure to Instruction: 2012 Institute on High School Design and Improvement

Designed by practitioners for practitioners, this institute provides teachers, administrators, and district staff with state-of-the-art tools and strategies that have successfully transformed high school practice.

Distributed Leadership: Drawing on the Strength Of Many

Education Northwest Magazine - Fall/Winter 2011

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 From Structure to Instruction Session Resources

Session materials from the 2010 From Structure to Instruction event.

From Structure to Instruction 2011

Designed by practitioners for practitioners, this institute provides programmatic tools and strategies to strengthen high school redesign efforts.

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.

School Improvement Proposal Development

Our experienced team helps schools and districts craft a winning strategy for school improvement. We can help you assess high-need areas to target, identify research-based strategies to address them, integrate individual programs into a systemic strategy for improvement, and plan for sustainability.

Secondary School Improvement Coaching

We work with your school and district leadership team to help you meet the evolving challenges of systemic change.

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.