Educational Organizations
There are many organizations across the country that provide schools with useful information and resources about how to create successful small schools. Below are the organizations that we work with most closely.
Located at Brown University, the Institute promotes and advocates the serious redesign of American schooling, especially in urban communities and in schools serving underserved children. Its site provides research, publications, and videos related to school standards and accountability, professional development, and public engagement.
Architects of Achievement helps school leaders build bridges between instructional and facility design. Their website is a rich resource of ideas, planning tools, and graphics to help leaders ensure their facilities support powerful teaching and learning.
BayCES assists urban schools, school districts, and community groups in the work of creating or redesigning their schools. They are committed to the transformation of education—to ensure that all students can reach high standards and that no student is poorly served due to her/his race, gender, home language, or economic status.
Located in Oregon, is a statewide non-profit organization working with employers and schools to boost student achievement. E3 promotes high academic standards and strong community involvement to prepare all Oregon students for success in post-secondary education and employment.
Located at Stanford University, SRN provides resources to support the creation of successful small schools. Their site includes in-depth information on their "Ten Features of Effective Schools." The site also includes the SRN Study Kit, a multimedia library of materials for schools, districts, and communities that are engaging in the process of redesigning comprehensive high schools.
Created in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie, education reform is one of the foundation's four priority-funding areas, beginning with early childhood education and extending to higher education.
The Corporation has joined with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to commit a total of $60 million to Schools for a New Society, a five-year initiative that aims to reinvigorate efforts to improve high schools in seven cities across the country—Boston, Chattanooga, Houston, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, and Worcester. In each city, there are broad-based school-community partnerships that include school, community, university, philanthropic, and business leaders.
CCE’s mission is to improve student learning in K-12 public schools and districts by promoting educational reform that is focused on school and system-wide change. CCE provides coaching, professional development, advocacy, and research in order to be a resource and catalyst toward the creation of small autonomous, democratic, equitable schools.
The Coalition is a network of schools that aim to increase student achievement by supporting redesign of curriculum, instruction and assessment.
Their site will connect you with regional centers, Essential Schools around the country and their best practices for the classroom and school structure.
The Initiative supports the creation of personalized, high achieving high schools in Colorado. It is directed by the Colorado Children's Campaign to support the transformation of low performing, large comprehensive high schools into small autonomous schools, as well as the creation of new, small autonomous high schools that are either district-supported or charter schools.
