Resources:
Online Resources:
Smaller
Learning Community Resource Warehouse
Alliance
for Excellent Education
National High
School Alliance
Northwest
Regional Educational Laboratory
Gates
Foundation
The Education
Trust
Association
for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Teachnology
A Different
Place
Internet Resources Quoted and Referenced:
GLEF (The
George Lucas Education Foundation). “Project-Based Learning
Research.” 3 Feb. 2007.
www.glef.org.
Hall , Tracey . Differentiated Instruction . CAST
Universal Design for Learning. 31 Jan. 2007 www.cast.org/research/.
Montgomery
County Public Schools. Department of Communication 2006. 15 Feb.
2007 http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org.
National
High School Alliance . Naomi Housman, Director. Institute for Educational
Leadership. 28 Feb. 2007 http://www.hsalliance.org.
Queen's
University. “Good Practice: Inquiry-Based Learning.” Center for
Teaching and Learning. 2 Feb. 2007 . www.queensu.ca .
SLC Resource Warehouse. NWREL. 2007. Office of Elementary
and Secondary Education. 2 Feb. 2007. http://www.slcresdourcewarehouse.com.
Textual Resources Quoted and Referenced:
Clarke, John, et al. Dynamics of Change in High School Teaching.
Providence , RI : Brown University Press. 2000. Darling-Hammond, Linda. Restructuring
Big Schools: Leading and Staffing New or Redesigned Schools . National Commission on Teaching and America
's Future.
Dufour, Richard and Robert Eaker. Professional Learning Communities
at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement .
Bloomington : Solution Tree, 1998.
---. Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities
Respond When Kids Don't Learn. National Education Service, 2004.
National Association of Secondary School Principals. What the
Research Shows: Breaking Ranks in Action. Reston : 2002.
---. Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform . Providence : The Education Alliance , 2004.
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL). Going Small
and Getting Smarter: Small Learning Communities as Platform for
Effective Professional Development . Portland : Northwest Regional Educational
Laboratory, 2005.
Oxley, Diana. Small Learning Communities: Implementing and Deepening
Practice . Portland : Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory,
2006.
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