Web Resources: PBL & School Reform
The Big Picture Company, Inc.
The Big Picture Company, sponsor of The Met School in Providence, Rhode Island, offers information on how to design break-through public schools, research and replicate new designs for education, train educators to serve as leaders in their schools and communities, and actively engage the public as participants and decision makers in the education of youth.
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Gates Foundation supports the development of small, personalized high schools that use project based learning as a primary instructional tool. This site is useful to keep abreast of key issues in school reform.
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Career Academy Support Network (CASN)
Located at the University of California, Berkeley, CASN offers resources to career academies and small learning communities, including a planning guide, papers and brochures on topics germane to career academies, suggested course sequences, and a directory of career academies across the United States.
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EdVisions Cooperative
Based in Minnesota, EdVisions supports entrepreneurial educators who are developing innovative small schools that emphasize project based learning and teacher ownership. EdVisions is a useful resource for charter schools and sponsors forums and conferences on charter school development.
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Expeditionary Learning
Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound is a proven model for comprehensive school reform for elementary, middle and high schools. It emphasizes learning by doing, with a particular focus on character growth, teamwork, reflection and literacy. Teachers connect high quality academic learning to adventure, service and character development through a variety of student experiences including interdisciplinary, project based learning expeditions.
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School Redesign Network
Based at Stanford University, this is an outstanding site with abundant resources for reinventing schools, and creating smaller learning communities. Includes a discussion forum.
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Small Schools Project
The Small Schools Project creates web based materials and tools to support the design and creation of small high schools.
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Talent Development High Schools and Middle Schools
A project of the John Hopkins Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk, the Talent Development model is a comprehensive reform model for large high schools and middle schools. This site offers summaries of school reform initiatives.
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National Academy Foundation (NAF)
NAF sustains a national network of career academies to support students' personal and career success. NAF academies are school within a school programs organized around three career themes: tourism, finance, and information technology.
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Jobs for the Future
JFF is the premier resource for information on school to career programs and the use of project based learning to meet combined academic and occupational goals. The Knowledge Center is a particularly good resource for publications and articles on school reform and innovative practices.
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