Model Secondary Schools Project

Working with schools and districts to ensure our urban students have the 21st Century schools they deserve.

Resources—Looking at the school reform Horizon

The Bookshelf—recent reading and key books that have influenced our work:

· Childress, Stacey, Richard F. Elmore, and Allen Grossman, eds. Managing School Districts for High Performance : Cases in Public Education Leadership. New York: Harvard Education P, 2007.

· Christensen, Clayton M., Curtis Johnson, and Michael Horn. Disrupting Class : How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, The, 2008.

· Christensen, Clayton M. The Innovator's Dilemma : When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

· Crew, Rudolph, and Thomas Dyja. Only Connect : The Way to Save Our Schools. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.

· Dede, Chris, James P. Honan, and Laurence C. Peters, eds. Scaling up Success : Lessons Learned from Technology-Based Educational Improvement. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.

· Friedman, Thomas L., and Oliver Wyman. The World Is Flat : A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005.

· Friedman, Thomas L. Hot, Flat, and Crowded : Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008.

· Gardner, Howard. Five Minds for the Future. New York: Harvard Business School P, 2007.

· Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers. Boston: Little Brown & Company, 2008.

· Kendall, John S., and Robert J. Marzano. The New Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. New York: Corwin P, 2006.

· Kozol, Jonathan. The Shame of the Nation : The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. New York: Crown, 2005.

· Levine, Melvin D. A Mind at a Time : America's Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed. New York: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated, 2002.

· Nieto, Sonia, ed. Why We Teach. New York: Teachers College P, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2005.

· Noguera, Pedro A. The Trouble with Black Boys : And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

· Papert, Seymour A. Children's Machine : Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

· Tough, Paul. Whatever It Takes : Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division, 2008.

· Tufte, Edward R. Envisioning Information. New York: Graphics P, 1990.

· Wagner, Tony. The Global Achievement Gap : Why Our Kids Don't Have the Skills They Need for College, Careers, and Citizenship--and What We Can Do about It. New York: Perseus Books Group, 2008.

· Wenger, Etienne, Richard A. McDermott, and William Snyder. Cultivating Communities of Practice : A Guide to Managing Knowledge. New York: Harvard Business School P, 2002.

· Wheatley, Margaret J. Turning to One Another : Simple Conversations to Return Hope to the Future. New York: Berrett-Koehler, Incorporated, 2001.

· Whitney, Diana, and Amanda Trosten-Bloom. The Power of Appreciative Inquiry : A Practical Guide to Positive Change. New York: Berrett-Koehler, Incorporated, 2002.

· Wiggins, Grant, and Jay McTighe. Schooling by Design : Mission, Action, and Achievement. Alexandria: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, 2007.

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The Bookshelf

This section contains resources that have guided our efforts and work samples from the schools and districts where we have worked with teams to bring 21st Century learning to urban classrooms.

Below are a few key books that have guided our most recent efforts. Along with the many people we have met along the way, these are our guides as well define the horizon.