Resources in this section include strategies for interacting with individual districts, as well as case studies and tools outlining how to best support a district engaged in secondary school redesign.
This executive summary highlights the seven expectations identified in the state's Framework for Connecticut’s High Schools, listing requirements and policy recommendations for each expectation.
This report is both a call to action and a toolkit to help educators and communities redesign their secondary schools; it outlines 12 principles to guide high school renewal across the state.
The website for High School!, a best practice periodical for educators, highlights issues, research, and resources relevant to secondary school redesign.
This website is a collection of resources regarding Iowa's new high school focus. The community involvement resources (located near the bottom of the page) may be particularly useful for other states.
This collection of tools helps schools make the most of learning communities among students, between students and teachers, and between schools and their external community partners.
This paper explores the implications of and strategies for district-wide high school instructional reform, focusing on the design aspects of instruction, roles for teachers, and the teacher workforce.
This report describes some of the more common approaches, strategies, and policies in school reform, and highlights some unique strategies that the researchers found in their studies.
The goal of this tool is to facilitate conversations between young people and adults about what makes a school "good" for students.
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Background and Context
Educational transformation requires changes at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. By supporting districts in their secondary school redesign efforts, state education agencies must not only provide direction, but also gain a deeper knowledge of the processes of redesign by learning from the experiences of individual districts. This in turn will facilitate stronger state leadership in support of future efforts.
