CES has a vast collection of tools, strategies, and resouces collected from years of work in the areas of school design, classroom practice, leadership and community connections. These resources are available online as well as for purchase.
CES ChangeLab provides specific resources from our Mentor Schools and a behind the scenes look at each school. The site also provides visitors with tangible examples of work in five focus areas: Teaching and Learning, School Practices, Assessment, Leadership, and Community Connections.
Horace, CES's quarterly journal combines educational research with resources and examples of innovative and effective practices from CES schools from around the country.
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Read book reviews in Horace and buy CES-related books through CES National and Amazon.com.
The EssentialVisions DVD set brings the Common Principles to life with images, real stories, and tools from today’s most successful small high schools. Each DVD captures schools and teachers implementing the Common Principles, illustrating how students engage in their education and teachers develop as professionals.
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Choosing Small: The Essential Guide to Successful High School Conversion
Choosing Small is designed for those faced with the complex process of dividing large schools into small autonomous schools that are effective in educating all students. Drawing on CES's extensive experience in school design, plus research on completed school conversions, this book provides strategic and practical guidance to educators who are either contemplating or undertaking a high school conversion process.
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EssentialAnalysis.org The Coalition of Essential Schools has been documenting the process and outcomes of school reform since its inception over 20 years ago. In a true learning community, inquiry is everybody’s work. Teaching, learning, community involvement, leadership, organizational management and change, professional growth – all take place in a continual dynamic of asking good questions and finding evidence that can guide a school’s actions. Essential Analysis provides schools with the tools to ask the right questions and engage in a process of meaningful data-based inquiry that can be used to drive school improvement efforts.
On this site you will have the ability to take and analyze surveys on-line, to post your own survey or use one already created, to administer surveys to students, teachers, and parents. We also provide you with tools to engage in the cycle of data-based inquiry, to take the results from your surveys and use those results to drive your school improvement. Go to EssentialAnalysis.org>>
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