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Change in urban schools is a difficult task requiring honesty, persistence and a good deal of knowledge about school systems, learning and leadership.

The Model Secondary Schools Project primarily serves as a facilitator of change in urban schools.  Specifically our focus and experience is in establishing and developing small high schools providing personalized learning that meets the learning needs of urban students.

We provide technical assistance to school planning and development teams using an approach we have developed through our experience in planning and developing fifteen schools across the country.  Our approach is based in the concept of Appreciative Inquiry, from our belief that the capacity to create these schools already exists in our public schools and our work with school teams has shown that to be true.

Yet feeling a sense of permission to innovate and the opportunity to apply the leadership skills educators have been trained to apply is too often lacking.  We work as partners with districts and school teams to help navigate the complexity of bringing about meaningful change—working from the “top down” and the “bottom up”.

Explore the schools we have worked with and read about our methods and history.  Please feel free to contact us for further information

 

Model Secondary Schools Project, LLC

P. O. Box 1684

Bellevue, WA  98009

To contact us:

Phone: 206-953-3078

E-mail: rm@modelschoolsproject.org

We would like to share our deep concern for the students and staff of Success Tech Academy following the shooting incident as well as our appreciation for their vision and effort.  This school opened in 2002, a result of  many minds planning a school where adults focus their creative professional efforts on helping urban students succeed.  Principal Johnny Durant and a dedicated staff have, since that time, built a school with a reputation that provides the evidence of the quality of their plan and the efforts of staff, students and families.  Our hearts and prayers go out to the Success Tech community.

 

Success Tech Academy opened as one of eight small high schools in urban school districts which received planning and development assistance from the Model Secondary Schools Project and funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  The school is the result of the efforts and dreams of the Cleveland community. 

 

The death of any student is a saddening personal tragedy, intensified when it occurs at school, and further magnified when it attracts wide media attention.  In the midst of this difficulty, learning will go on, there is much yet to be done.