Creating and Sustaining Small Learning Communities
Strategies and Tools for Transforming High Schools
Second Edition
- Grace Sammon - President, GMS Partners, Co-Founder, National Career Academy Coalition, Founder, The Business Institute for Educators
November 2007 | 248 pages | Corwin
High school reform expert, consultant, and author, Grace Sammon, offers district and school leaders a step-by-step approach to the work of redesigning high schools into smaller learning communities. This book moves education leaders and school reformers from an appreciation of creating smaller learning communities to the nuts and bolts of doing the work while making improvements in school culture, professional practice, data gathering and analysis, and academic achievement. In addition, it provides a full CD-Rom tool kit for developing, sustaining, and evaluating a successful small learning community. This resource and collection of tools are essential for school leaders serious about small learning communities and continuous improvement.
List of Artwork
List of Tool Kit Files
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. The Journey Begins
2. Formation, Study, and Awareness: The Sum of the Parts
3. Leading an Improvement Process: Changes in Practice Are Inevitable
4. The Plan?s the Thing: Establishing Structures
5. Establishing SLC Teams: Developing the Mission, Culture, and Schedule
6. Curriculum for College and Careers
7. Professional Practice
8. Powerful Partnerships
9. The Student Experience: Making It Personal
10. Sustaining: The Experts Are Among Us
Resources
References
Index