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Each summer SPN produces case studies about the model schools that have been identified to present at the national Model Schools Conference. These case studies present qualitative and quantitative data and best practices. Organized around the dimensions of the learning criteria, this research provides a comprehensive look at that leadership the instruction and the innovations that have led to significant student growth. Case studies align to other resources on SPN’s website through the schools they feature and the focus topics such as rigor/relevance and quadrant D leadership. These case studies are typically between 9 to 12 pages long and are fully downloadable to SPN members. Schools seeking innovative approaches and best practices use these case studies as Windows in two similar schools that are achieving enviable results. SPN case studies also help facilitate conversation among schools as they seek out peers from whom to learn. SPN members are able to access five years of case studies from over 150 schools.
Benefits:
- Single source database of model schools best practices.
- Fully searchable catalog organized by “Models of” Topics, Grade Level, Year, Tags, and Keywords.
- Model programs and implementation descriptions help school reformers find solutions.
- Schools know who to contact and how to reach them at each Case Study school.
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4 August, 2010
4 August, 2010
| By The Numbers | Model Of |
| 4,300 students 74% minority 72% free/reduced lunch 11% with disabilities 11% English language learners 58% first language not English 25% grads w/state scholarships AYP met | 9th Grade Success Collaborative Leadership Comprehensive High School Data-driven Decision Making Inclusion Leadership Literacy Personalization Rigor and Relevance Small Learning Communities |
Year: 2010
Brockton High School is a comprehensive grades 9–12 school located in an urban center 30 miles south of Boston. The school’s approximately 4,350 students represent a range in diversity and socioeconomic levels. The education program follows a six-day block schedule that offers core and elective courses in academic, vocational, fine arts, and performing arts programs. High expectations and high standards help motivate students enrolled in each of the academic programs and levels: Internati...Read more
27 April, 2010
| By The Numbers | Model Of |
| 800 students 35% free/reduced lunch 28 different languages/68 countries AYP met | Creativity Leadership Mentoring Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships |
Year: 2009
The A. B. Combs Leadership Magnet Elementary School (Combs) program is grounded in the belief that building cooperative relationships and nurturing responsibility, kindness, and good judgment are the basis for creating a successful community of learners. By developing the whole child—socially, emotionally, academically, and ethically—the program fosters a climate of principle-centered personal leadership.
It is Combs’ culture of continuous improvement and performance excellence, dif...Read more
It is Combs’ culture of continuous improvement and performance excellence, dif...Read more
28 June, 2011
| By The Numbers | Model Of |
| 200 students 93% minority 75% free/reduced lunch 5% English language learners 71% first generation college AYP met (2007-10) | Advisories Early College Leadership Literacy Rigor and Relevance |
Year: 2011
DeKalb Early College Academy, also known as DECA, is an early college high school located in historic Stone Mountain, Georgia, about 15 miles from Atlanta. The school is an alternative to large, comprehensive high schools in the DeKalb County School System and is a school of choice for parents who may not want their child to attend the traditional community high school. Students must apply and be accepted into the program as they would a college. The school accepts students from both public a...Read more
13 April, 2010
| Model Of |
| Assessment Collaboration Collaborative Leadership Continuous Improvement Creativity Culture Data-driven Decision Making Empowerment Engagement High Expectations in Every Leader Inclusion Interventions Leadership Learning Criteria Literacy Meeting All Students’ Needs |
Year: 2006
The A. B. Combs Leadership Magnet Elementary School program is grounded in the belief that building cooperative relationships and nurturing responsibility, kindness, and good judgment are the basis for creating a successful community of learners. By developing the whole child — socially, emotionally, academically, and ethically — the program fosters a climate of principle-centered and personal leadership. It is Combs’ culture of continuous improvement and performance excellence, differe...Read more
28 April, 2010
| By The Numbers | Model Of |
| 3,114 students 52% Hispanic 40% White/non-Hispanic 8% English language learners 36% free/reduced lunch 95% graduation rate 95% attendance rate AYP met | International Baccalaureate Program Interventions Leadership Professional Development Small Learning Communities |
Year: 2009
La Quinta High School (La Quinta) is one of three comprehensive high schools in the Desert Sands Unified Schools District, located in the Coachella Valley of California. The district, serving grades K–12, provides comprehensive educational programs and services, with significant special education, vocational, early childhood, and adult education programs, to a multiethnic student population with diverse socioeconomic and cultural interests.
La Quinta is situated on an attractive, nearly i...Read more
La Quinta is situated on an attractive, nearly i...Read more
12 August, 2010
| By The Numbers | Model Of |
| 1600 students 18% minority 9% students with disabilities 96.2% graduation rate 95% attendance rate AYP met | Data-driven Decision Making Interventions Literacy Rigor and Relevance Technology Integration Transitions |
Year: 2010
Olathe East High School (Olathe East) in Olathe, Kansas, is one of four high schools in the Olathe Unified School District. Located 25 miles southwest of Kansas City, it is one of the fastest growing K-12 school districts in the state and is now the third largest. The city of Olathe, with its current population of 122,500, grows by 15% every year, and the community was recently named one of the most desirable places to live in the United States by Money magazine. Olathe’s commercial and ind...Read more
12 August, 2010
| By The Numbers | Model Of |
| 1,000 students 76% reading at grade level 64% minority 8% special needs 55% free and reduced lunch 12% non-exited ELL AYP met | Interventions Literacy Parent Involvement Rigor and Relevance |
Year: 2010
Owning up to failure is not a weakness, it\'s a measure of strength; at Cotton Boll Elementary School (Cotton Boll) failure was seen as an opportunity for positive change. Three years ago Cotton Boll was placed in federal school improvement status because of low test scores in two sub-group areas in reading. This led to the reform effort that has resulted in Cotton Boll being selected as a Model School for the year 2010.
Cotton Boll Elementary School celebrated 25 years of service to the ...Read more
Cotton Boll Elementary School celebrated 25 years of service to the ...Read more
28 June, 2011
| By The Numbers | Model Of |
| 2,700 students 97.8% minority 74% economically disadvantagedi 4.4% English language learners 93% attendance rate AYP met | 9th Grade Success Data-driven Decision Making Rigor and Relevance Small Learning Communities |
Year: 2011
Dekaney High School (Dekaney) is located in north central Houston, Texas. It is a comprehensive high school with grades 9-12, and it is divided into smaller learning communities. Student demographics at Dekaney High School represent a wide range in ethnic diversity and socio-economic levels. The 2009-10 student body numbers approximately 2,700 students, comprised of 62.6% African American, 32.1% Hispanic, 2.9% Asian, 2.2% white, and 0.1% American Indian students. About 69% of the students are...Read more
22 June, 2011
| By The Numbers | Model Of |
| 700 students, pre-K-8 87% Hispanic 10% African American 3% white 97% free/reduced lunch 20% ELL 18% students with disabilities | Empowerment Leadership Partnerships Personalization Rigor and Relevance |
Year: 2011
Inspiring students to become teachers and community leaders is the goal of Douglas Taylor Elementary School (Taylor). Continuity and connection are important to the school, which opened in the 19th century. Taylor serves students pre-K through 8th grade, mostly in a beautiful old school building. To maintain the feeling and the benefits of the middle school model, the middle school students take classes in an annex outside the main building. Despite this separation, the students are surrounde...Read more
28 June, 2011
| By The Numbers | Model Of |
| 100 students 5% minority 70% free/reduced lunch 1% with disabilities 1% English language learners | Rigor and Relevance Technology Integration |
Year: 2011
Barren Academy of Virtual and Expanded Learning (BAVEL) is a diploma granting high school that provides class work primarily online but uses other methods, such as correspondence, when needed. The school serves students in grades 9-12 but continues to explore middle school offerings and does enroll a limited number of middle school students who are seeking high school credits. While it is truly a “school without walls,” the director’s office and support lab are based in Glasgow, KY, whi...Read more
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