Lessons Learned From High School SLC and Small School Reform Efforts

This resource offers strategies to help make small learning communities effective. Though the brief acknowledges that the structural framework of small learning communities in not in and of itself enough to catalyze school improvement, it describes strategies for rigorous instruction and support that can be paired with small learning communities to help improve high schools. The report emphasizes the need for an overarching vision of school improvement that includes faculty collaboration, high expectations and goal setting for students, and access to rigorous coursework in addition to structural change.