Choosing Small: The Essential Guide to Successful High School Conversion
by Jay Feldman, M. Lisette López, Katherine G. Simon (Jossey-Bass, 2005)
“Choosing Small provides necessary lessons on high school ‘conversions,’ one of the most difficult reform efforts of our times.”
-Theodore R. Sizer, founder, Coalition of Essential Schools
“Anyone in a school leadership position who is trying to create high schools for the twenty-first century should read this book.”
-John Welch, superintendent, Highline Public Schools, Burien, Washington
Choosing Small offers those faced with the challenge of creating new small autonomous schools information for achieving the complex process of dividing large schools into small schools that are effective in educating all students. In this book, the Coalition of Essential Schools draws on its long-time experience in school design, plus research on completed school conversions, to provide strategic and practical guidance to educators who are either contemplating or undertaking a high school conversion process. To read the preface, click on the link below on download it here.
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Foreword by Michael Klonsky, Director, Small Schools Workshop, Chicago, Illinois
by Jay Feldman, M. Lisette López, Katherine G. Simon (Jossey-Bass, 2005)
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