Small Learning Communities

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A Big School Divides to Go for High-Quality Work

Kathleen Cushman

A Big School Takes the Team Approach

Kathleen Cushman

A Simple Justice: the Challenge of Small Schools

William Ayers
Michael Klonsky
Gabrielle Lyon

Advising System: Robert Louis Stevenson School

Advisory Program Research and Evaluation

Reino Makkonen

An Advisory Program

Are Advisory Groups 'Essential'? What They Do, How They Work

Kathleen Cushman

Beating the Odds: High Schools as Communities of Commitment

Kathy Simon

Breaking Up Large High Schools: Five Common (and Understandable) Errors of Execution

Tom Gregory

Connecting Compensation and Evaluation to Build Professional Development

Natalie Morey

Creating Advisories: A Few Notes from the Field

Carol M. Lieber
Rachel A. Poliner

Creating New Schools: How Small Schools are Changing American Education

Evans Clinchy

Downsized Schools Pushed for Oakland

Meredith May

Elements of Smallness Create Conditions for Success

Jill Davidson

Eleven Structural Guidelines for Small Schools Concerned with Equity

Empowering Students: Essential Schools' Missing Link

Kathleen Cushman

ERIC Clearinghouse: Small Schools Page

Essential School Structure and Design: Boldest Moves Get the Best Results

Kathleen Cushman

Essential Staff for Essential Schools: Horace Interviews Misha Lesley

Jill Davidson

Four Essential Elements of School Design

Kathy Simon

From The Inside Out: Eagle Rock School Producing a New Generation of CES Teachers

Dan Condon

Good Teaching Is a Conversation

Eileen Shakespear

High Schools on a Human Scale

Laura Flaxman

Homes to Powerful Learning & Delight

Herb Childress

Improving the Odds: The Untapped Power of Schools to Improve the Health of Teens

In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization

Deborah Meier

Innovative School Design for Small Learning Communitites

Jill Davidson

Investing in Teachers For Student Success: The Teaching Fellows Program

Ann Mantil
Amy Wendel

Learning by Teaching: The New Teachers Collaborative

Claire Fox Ringwall
Laura Rogers

Looking Back on 15 Years of Essential School Designs

Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools

Jill Davidson

New Small Learning Communities: Findings from Recent Literature

Oakland New Small Autonomous Schools 2002 Request for Proposals

Oakland's Community Propels Change for Equity: The Small Schools Initiative's

Jill Davidson

One Kid at a Time: big lessons from a small school

Eliot Levine

Organizing and Designing Small Schools through Conversions of Large Comprehensive Schools

Principled Principal Development: The Greater Boston Principal Residency Network

Principles that Guide School Design

Reinventing High School: Six Journeys of Change

Lili Allen
Cheryl Almeida
Kathleen Cushman
Larry DeSalvatore
Tom Malarkey
Adria Steinberg

Resources for Learning More About Smaller Learning Community Structures and Strategies

School Design: An Architect's View

Jeffrey A. Lackney

sidebar: Giving the Kids the Keys: An Advisory Plan that Involves Students in Setting Standards

Kathleen Cushman

sidebar: Some Advisory Group Models

Kathleen Cushman

Sidebar: Statement on College Readiness, Chief Academic Offices of the University of Maine System

Small Is Not Enough: Daily Connections Among Children and Adults in Oakland's

Jill Davidson

Small Schools: Great Strides - A Study of New Small Schools in Chicago

Michelle Fine
Matt Gladden
Nicole E. Holland
Sherry P. King
Esther Mosak
Linda C. Powell
Patricia Wasley

Teachers Talking Together: The Power of Professional Community

Linda Nathan

Teaching as Inquiry: Asking Hard Questions to Improve Practice and Student Achievement

Jill Davidson

The Big Benefits of Smallness

Deborah Meier

The Big Picture: Education is Everyone's Business

Jill Davidson