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A Modest Invitation: How Colleges Can Help Advance Secondary Reform
by Stephen Abbott and David Ruff
Last fall, the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont formed an unprecedented collaboration committed to rethinking the traditional American high school on a regional scale to more effectively mirror the lives and learning needs of todayŐs students. Our partnership, the New England Secondary School Consortium, is dedicated to fostering forward-thinking innovations in the design and delivery of secondary learning across the Northeast. With funding from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we have spent the past year laying the groundwork for an ambitious schoolhouse-to-statehouse effort to create equitable, 21st-century systems of public secondary education in each of our member states. As we move into the next phase of our work, collaborating with New EnglandŐs higher education community will be one of our top priorities.
The Experiential Dual-Enrollment Program: Building a College-Going Culture for First-Generation Youth and Families
by Stephen Abbott and Pamela Fisher
Dual-enrollment programs are rapidly becoming a popular strategy for engaging disadvantaged, underserved, and first-generation youth, while also promoting higher educational aspirations among students from communities and families with little or no college-going history. This paper explores dual enrollment as a strategy for promoting reform at the secondary level and provides a variety of practical strategies for building successful school-based dual-enrollment programs that integrate on-campus college experiences.
Opening the Classroom Doors: A Multidistrict Model for Collaborative Instructional Improvement
by Mary Hastings, Mark Kostin, and Gerry Crocker
Collaboration across schools not only holds promise for conserving resources, but for providing educators with the critical support and political cover they need make bold changes in organizational design and instructional approaches. To collaborate effectively, however, schools must change their cultures and belief systems, not just their ways of operating. Drawing on the experience of a five-school partnership that collaboratively implemented a Smaller Learning Communities Program grant, this paper describes ten key elements associated with successful cross-school collaboration.
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Great Schools Partnership Brochure
This six-page, full-color brochure provides a general overview of our work, philosophy, and mission.
ARTICLES + PAPERS
A Modest Invitation: How Colleges Can Help Advance Secondary Reform
by Stephen Abbott and David Ruff
Last fall, the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont formed an unprecedented collaboration committed to rethinking the traditional American high school on a regional scale to more effectively mirror the lives and learning needs of todayŐs students. Our partnership, the New England Secondary School Consortium, is dedicated to fostering forward-thinking innovations in the design and delivery of secondary learning across the Northeast. With funding from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we have spent the past year laying the groundwork for an ambitious schoolhouse-to-statehouse effort to create equitable, 21st-century systems of public secondary education in each of our member states. As we move into the next phase of our work, collaborating with New EnglandŐs higher education community will be one of our top priorities.
The Experiential Dual-Enrollment Program: Building a College-Going Culture for First-Generation Youth and Families
by Stephen Abbott and Pamela Fisher
Dual-enrollment programs are rapidly becoming a popular strategy for engaging disadvantaged, underserved, and first-generation youth, while also promoting higher educational aspirations among students from communities and families with little or no college-going history. This paper explores dual enrollment as a strategy for promoting reform at the secondary level and provides a variety of practical strategies for building successful school-based dual-enrollment programs that integrate on-campus college experiences.
Opening the Classroom Doors: A Multidistrict Model for Collaborative Instructional Improvement
by Mary Hastings, Mark Kostin, and Gerry Crocker
Collaboration across schools not only holds promise for conserving resources, but for providing educators with the critical support and political cover they need make bold changes in organizational design and instructional approaches. To collaborate effectively, however, schools must change their cultures and belief systems, not just their ways of operating. Drawing on the experience of a five-school partnership that collaboratively implemented a Smaller Learning Communities Program grant, this paper describes ten key elements associated with successful cross-school collaboration.
MARKETING
Great Schools Partnership Brochure
This six-page, full-color brochure provides a general overview of our work, philosophy, and mission.