Publications

Create Personalized Learning Communities

Getting Ready Willing and Able: Critical Steps Toward Successful Implementation of Small Learning Communities in Large High Schools

This paper focuses on three key questions that district and school leaders face as they transition from a traditional comprehensive high school to smaller personalized learning communities:

Making the Move: How Freshman Academies and Thematic Small Learning Communities Can Support Successful Transitions

“Making the Move” examines how thematic small, personalized learning communities and freshman academies offer promising research-based approaches to significantly reducing school dropout rates between the 9th and 10th grades.

Going Small and Getting Smarter: Small Learning Communities as Platforms for Effective Professional Development

The aim of “Going Small” is to demonstrate how small personalized learning communities provide an optimal platform for the most important elements of effective professional development.