Key Documents

Website resources

http://www.ed.gov/programs/slcp/resources.html
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sslc/
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/
http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/resources/query/q/860?x-r=runnw
http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/resources/view/ces_res/208
http://www.all4ed.org/learning_comm/index.html

Research

The Laboratory for Student Success
Small Learning Communities
A Review of the Research
Diana Oxley

http://www.temple.edu/LSS/pdf/ReviewOfTheResearchOxley.pdf

Wall-to-Wall
Implementing Small Learning Communities in Five Boston High Schools
Lili Allen with Cheryl Almeida and Adria Steinberg 2001
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/pubs/LABWorkPaper/Wall2Wall.pdf

Small Learning Communities Meet School-to-Work Whole-School Restructuring for Urban Comprehensive High Schools
Nettie Legters
January 1999
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/crespar/techReports/Report31.pdf

Small Learning Communities and Tracking: Evidence from Five High Schools Divided into Schools-within-Schools by Valerie Lee,
University of Michigan; Douglas Ready, University of Oregon
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sslc/issue_papers/issue_paper_7_evidence.pdf

Making the Move: How Freshman Academies and Thematic Small Learning Communities Can Support Successful Transitions To and Through High School (References at the end of the article) by James Kemple, MDRC; James Connell, Adena Klem, Institute for Research and Reform in Education; Nettie Legters, Johns Hopkins University; Jacquelynne Eccles, University of Michigan
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sslc/issue_papers/issue_paper_6_making_the_move.pdf

New Small Learning Communities: Findings from Recent Literature
Kathleen Cotton [2001]
http://www3.scasd.org/small_schools/nlsc.pdf

“The Coolest School in America” How Small Learning Communities are Changing Everything
http://www.educationevolving.org/pdf/coolest_school.pdf

Creating Small Learning Communities: One Way to Jumpstart High School Reform
Brett Mayhan and Julie Edmunds
http://www.serve.org/_downloads/TheVisionMagV3N2-SLC.pdf

The National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform Policy Statement: Small Schools and Small Learning Communities
http://www.mgforum.org/Policy/small%20communities/small%20communities.pdf

Essential Books

College Knowledge
David Conley

Timetables of History
Bernard Grun

In Search of Understanding: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms
Jacqueline Grennon Brooks & Martin G. Brooks

The Power of Protocols
Joseph McDonald, Nancy Mohr, Alan Dichter & Elizabeth McDonald

School Leadership that Works
Robert Marzano, Timothy Waters & Brian McNulty

On Common Ground
Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker & Rebecca DuFour (editors)

Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design
Connecting Content and Kids
Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe

Mapping the Big Picture
Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12
Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Horace’s Schools
Redesigning the American High School
Theodore R. Sizer

Collaborative Analysis of Student Work
Improving Teaching and Learning
Georgea M. Langer, Amy B. Colton, Loretta S. Goff

Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading in High School Reform

Breaking Ranks in the Middle: Strategies for Leading Middle Level Reform

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