Creating a Culture of Continuous High School Improvement – Darren Fox, Gordon Balbar, Ronali Ferguson, Maureen Matthews, Aaron Trimble, and Scott Poon
MFWHSR Collaborative Day, October 6, 2016
Designing Your High School: Creating the Conditions for Student Success – Brad Clapp
MFWHSR Collaborative Day, October 6, 2016
Highly Adaptive Learning Systems: Research in Alberta’s Redesigned High Schools – Sharon Friesen, PhD
MFWHSR Collaborative Day, October 6, 2016
Voices of Leadership: Our Shared Experiences – Chris Meaden and Matt Christian
MFWHSR Collaborative Day, October 6, 2016
Student Support in High School Redesign – Jason Dolezal, Gane Olsen
MFWHSR Collaborative Day, October 6, 2016
Changing Systems to Personalize Learning
“Changing Systems to Personalize Learning,” is a series of professional development workshops designed to help secondary school change teams increase their understanding of personalization. This educational series is published by the Education Alliance at Brown University. The Education Alliance is a reform support organization committed to advancing equitable educational opportunities that prepare all student populations to succeed in the 21st century. These educational publications demonstrate how communities and educational organizations apply research and transform instructional practice.
- Changing Systems to Personalize Learning – The Power of Advisories
- Changing Systems to Personalize Learning – Introduction to the Personalization Workshops
- Changing Systems to Personalize Learning- Teaching to Each Student
- Changing Systems to Personalize Learning- Personalized Learning
- Big Buildings, Small Schools: Using a Small Schools Strategy for High School Reform
- Block Scheduling: Innovations with Time
- Benchmarks for Success in High School Education: Putting Data to Work in School-to-Career Education Reform
Tools to Support Implementation and Utilizing the “Guide to Support Implementation: Essential Conditions”
The following tools have been developed to enhance the utilization of the Guide to Support Implementation: Essential Conditions, to support district and school leaders with their implementation of Moving Forward with High School Redesign (MFWHSR), but can be adapted for other initiatives.
- Implementation Tools pdf
- Part 1: Self-reflection: Shared Responsibility and Culture of Learning pdf
- Part 2: Self-reflection: Essential Conditions pdf
- Hexagon Tool pdf
- Readiness Facilitator Guide pdf
- Facilitated Reflection: Teacher pdf
- Facilitated Reflection: Student pdf
- Facilitated Reflection: School Leaders and Other Stakeholders pdf
- Synthesizing The Findings pdf
- Facilitated Reflection Guide pdf
Additional Resource
Why is Using Data Important in the Implementation of High School Redesign?
Discover Redesign
- Discover Redesign Facilitator Guide docx
- Discover Redesign Powerpoint pptx
- Principle Gauge with Reflection pdf
Principle Gauge with Reflection
Continuous Growth and Improvement
A Guide to Support Implementation: Essential Conditions
A Guide to Support Implementation: Essential Conditions was developed by a provincial working group of education partners committed to realizing positive change in Alberta’s schools and classrooms. This guide offers guiding questions to support implementation planning.
Moving Forward with High School Redesign: A Guide to Support Implementation Essential Conditions
This guide outlines actions taken by several school administrators involved in the High School Flexibility Project.
Your Key to Success: Administrator’s Guide to Raising High School Completion Rates
This Alberta Education document was designed to assist Alberta school jurisdictions in developing and successfully implementing high school completion plans.
