Smaller Learning Community Resources

Online Resources
Catalog of School Reform Models
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/catalog/index.shtml

Coalition for Essential Schools
http://www.ael.org/rel/csr/catalog/coalition.htm

GMS Partners: Helping to Create Schools that Work
http://www.gmspartnersinc.org/

Key Elements of Smaller Learning Communities
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sslc/elements.shtml

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
http://www.nwrel.org/

* Schools Making Progress
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sslc/descriptions/index.asp

Small School Might
http://www.nwrel.org/nwreport/2002may/index.html

PUBLICATIONS Publications are available by contacting the U.S. Department of Education, Education
Publication Center toll-free at 1-877-4ED-PUBS, via the web at
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/edpubs.html , or by mail at P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, Md.
20794-1398.

REFERENCES Allen, Lili. Wall to wall: Implementing small learning communities in five Boston high schools.
Providence: Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory. (Available at BHS Library)

Cotton, K. (2001). New small learning communities: Findings from recent literature. Portland:
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. (Available at BHS Library)

Owens, R., Cooper, K., & Brown, M. (2002, September). Getting small: Transforming our high schools. Leadership . (available at Bartlett Library)

Raywid, M. & Oshiyama, L. (2000, February). Musings in the Wake of Columbine: What
Can Schools Do? Phi Delta Kappan, V81, N6, 444-449. (available through EBSCO)