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Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small High Schools

by Regis Anne Shields and Karen Hawley Miles
ERS, 2008

This report illustrates how nine high performing, small urban high schools across the U.S. are thinking about and organizing their resources strategically to best meet their students’ most pressing needs. Through interviews and reviews of class schedules, staffing strategies, budgets, and more, the report provides a detailed look at how leaders in these “Leading Edge Schools” carefully and purposefully think about how they use every staff member, each moment of the school day, and every dollar to support student learning.

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Also make sure to check out the case studies of each school.

Tags: school systems, teaching effectiveness, school design, professional development, per pupil spending, schools, teaching, strategic designs, school size, academic time