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Choosing
Small: The Essential Guide to Successful High School Conversion
by
Jay Feldman, M. Lisette López, and Katherine G. Simon
Foreword by Michael Klonsky, Director, Small Schools Workshop
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“Every
community that has a large traditional high school should
use this important book as a guide to creating the kind
of schooling that our young people need and deserve.”
–Ron
Wolk, Founding Editor of Education Week
“Anyone
in a school leadership position who is trying to create
high schools for the twenty-first century should read
this book.”
-John Welch, superintendent, Highline Public Schools,
Burien, Washington
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Communities
across the country, upset with the status quo and wanting the
best outcomes for all students, 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.
Choosing
Small is a project of the Coalition of Essential
Schools (CES), one of the nation’s leading school
reform networks. Jay Feldman, Ph.D., is director
of research at CES. M. Lisette López,
MA was senior program associate of the CES Small Schools Project.
Katherine G. Simon, Ph.D., was co-executive director
of CES. Choosing Small is published
by Jossey-Bass and was released October 2005.
To
learn more about or order this book, please go to http://www.essentialschools.org/pub/ces_docs/resources/choosingsmall.html
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