» Academic Pathways to Access and Student Success

National Inventory of Academic Pathways
This project identifies and disseminates information about new and emerging academic pathways that extend from high school to college and enhance transition to postsecondary education for underserved students, particularly underrepresented minority, low-income, and first-generation students.

» American Youth Policy Forum

Whatever it Takes: How Twelve Communities are Reconnecting Out-of-School Youth
This report uses twelve case studies to demonstrate various methods of dropout recovery and identifies best practices.

» Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Rethinking High School: Five Profiles of Innovative Models for Student Success
This report looks at five schools from across the country that have adopted a small school approach to learning, concluding that there are at least six identifiable benefits to implementing this model.

» Career Academy Support Network

Career Academies: Building Blocks for Reconstructing American High Schools
This study examines the effectiveness of career academies, focusing on several programs throughout the country. The study concludes that career academies are effective in improving the performance of high school students.

Planning Guide for Career Academies
This planning guide provides practical guidance on the process of starting a career academy.

» Casey Family Programs

It's My Life: Postsecondary Education and Training
This resource guide is intended to help child welfare professionals help young people in the foster care system prepare academically, financially, and emotionally for postsecondary education and training success.

» Coalition of Essential Schools

Resources on Small Learning Communities
This website provides a large and diverse source of articles and practical resources about small learning communities.

» The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning

Safe and Sound: An Education Leader's Guide to Evidence-Based Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs
This guide provides a road map for schools and districts that are launching social, emotional, and academic learning programs. The guide reviews 80 programs designed for use in general education classrooms, including both comprehensive and narrowly focused programs, such as drug education or anti-violence programs, that can be combined with others.

» Education Alliance at Brown University

Changing Systems to Personalize Learning
This series of guidebooks supports practitioners in conducting professional development workshops to better understand personalized learning.

Growing Toward Systemic Change: Developing Personal Learning Plans at Montpelier High School
This case study spotlights a school's development of a personalized learning program, including independent studies, individualized reading and writing courses, and off-campus community service and career explorations, creating a wide array of learning options for all students.

» The Education Trust

The Power to Change: High Schools that Help All Students Achieve
This report profiles three rapidly improving high schools that serve classically high-risk students and outlines the factors and practices that make these schools successful.

» Jobs for the Future

From Large to Small: Strategies for Personalizing the High School
This report offers concrete guideposts to leaders of comprehensive high schools who seek to implement a small schools strategy.

It's Kind of Different: Student Experiences in Two Early College High Schools
This booklet captures student, teacher, administrator, and parent perspectives on early college high school through surveys of and interviews with members of the early college high school community.

University Park Campus School: An Unparalleled Record of Achievement
This report profiles the University Park Campus School, in Worcester, Massachussetts, a highly successful urban school that serves primarily high-risk students.

» National Association of Secondary School Principals

Breaking Ranks II
Breaking Ranks II engages principals, teacher leaders, and the entire school community in reforming the American high school into an academically rigorous, personalized learning environment that is improved through collaborative leadership.

Breaking Ranks in the Middle
The nine strategies and 30 recommendations that form the core of Breaking Ranks in the Middle are similar to those in Breaking Ranks II, but are grounded in the middle school philosophy. A commission of middle level practitioners and experts had an active hand in developing the book, which includes a number of full-length profiles and vignettes of schools that put the recommendations in action.

» Northwest Regional Education Laboratory

Small Learning Communities: Implementing and Deepening Practice
This publication brings together a knowledge base, usable tools, and resources for implementing and deepening SLC practice. It includes five domains of best practice, including a cyclical process that helps schools improve their teaching and learning practices.

» Pathways to College Network

College Readiness for All Toolbox
This web site contains sections of Tools, Lessons Learned, and Resources & Links, all designed to support the collaborative efforts of educators, counselors, outreach professionals, and policymakers.

» Rural Schools and Community Trust

Resources and case-studies identifying "good rural high schools"
This compendium of articles and other publications highlight what makes a successful rural high school.

» School Redesign Network at Stanford

Personalization Resources
The resources included here explore how small schools are reorganizing time, staff, and budgets, and using strategies such as advisory, block scheduling, and looping to personalize learning and graduate more students.

» Small Schools Project

Organization Website
The Small Schools Project, part of the Coalition of Essential Schools Northwest, promotes the development of small schools committed to rigorous, relevant learning experiences for students and powerful relationships that support student learning.

Tools for Practitioners related to small schools
This web site provides a large set of tools for practitioners relating to the implementation of and teaching in small schools.

Section on personalization
This set of publications highlight the benefits of personalization in small schools.

» Small Schools Workshop

Organization Website
The Small Schools Workshop collaborates with teachers, principals, parents, and district leaders to create new, small, innovative learning communities in public schools.

Small Schools Listserv
This listserve connects people interested in small schools issues.