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  New Report: Building a System of Excellent High Schools This new tool, Building a System of Excellent High Schools: A Framework and Tool for Discussion and Action, from the Academy for Educational Development and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform provides guidelines for district leaders, community stakeholders, educators, administrators, parents, and students to map out the process of transforming their high schools to meet the needs of all students. Additionally, two leading national education support organizations the Academy for Educational Development and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform—originally designed this tool to assist the seven school districts involved in Carnegie Corporation’s Schools for a New Society (SN) initiative, a national initiative designed to reinvent urban high schools, redesign urban school districts and mobilize urban communities to demand and support widespread change in public schools. Using the rich experiences and emerging lessons from the seven SNS sites (Boston, MA, Hamilton County/Chattanooga, TN, Houston, TX, Providence, RI, Sacramento, CA, San Diego, CA and Worcester, MA), this tool outlines a range of strategies that districts and their community partners need to create the capacity and conditions for systemic high school transformation. It is intended to: *Provide a systemic change framework (see page 3) to assess development and implementation progress as it relates to high school redesign; *Illustrate the various components of the high school transformation process; *Identify indicators of effectiveness that can be refined and tracked to measure progress during implementation and *Develop and promote a shared commitment to key work among all partners engaged in high school transformation work. To download a PDF version of the report, click on the following link: Building a System of Excellent High Schools. Related Resources from SchoolsMovingUp: SchoolsMovingUp's Reading Room section provides articles, books, and abstracts offering practical ideas and models for school improvement. For easy reference, resources are organized by major topics. For related information on high schools, go to the Secondary section of SchoolsMovingUp's Reading Room. |
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