LINKS AND RESOURCES

“Nothing takes the place of good instruction. However, we all have a need to belong and SLC allows students to be a part of a community with a common focus.”
Craig Shapiro, Principal
Grace Dodge High School

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