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Choosing Small: The Essential Guide to Successful High School Conversion

Katherine G. Simon

2/5 ( ratings)

With low achievement and high drop-out rates plaguing our larger public high schools, communities across the country are creating smaller, more personalized schools that share a larger campus. Drawing on the Coalition of Essential Schools longtime experience in school design, Choosing Small offers practical and strategic guidance for educators interested in transforming their high school. Featuring interviews with educators experienced in school conversion, the book covers all aspects of the conversion planning and implementation process such as engaging a broad array of stakeholders, working with the district, creating vision statements for the new schools, building leadership and management structures, and identifying curricular options, as well as, instructional needs.

Language: English

Pages: 203

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Release: October 01, 2005

ISBN: 0787980277

ISBN 13: 9780787980276

Choosing Small: The Essential Guide to Successful High School Conversion

Katherine G. Simon

2/5 ( ratings)

With low achievement and high drop-out rates plaguing our larger public high schools, communities across the country are creating smaller, more personalized schools that share a larger campus. Drawing on the Coalition of Essential Schools longtime experience in school design, Choosing Small offers practical and strategic guidance for educators interested in transforming their high school. Featuring interviews with educators experienced in school conversion, the book covers all aspects of the conversion planning and implementation process such as engaging a broad array of stakeholders, working with the district, creating vision statements for the new schools, building leadership and management structures, and identifying curricular options, as well as, instructional needs.

Language: English

Pages: 203

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Release: October 01, 2005

ISBN: 0787980277

ISBN 13: 9780787980276

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