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Selected Quotes - Nancy Mohr On January 25, 2004 the NSRF NY Annual Conference honored Nancy Mohr, founding director. Conversation at the conference was provoked by her work, passion and words. Selected quotes from her wiritings were used to provoke conversation. In repopnse to requests, those quotes have been posted here.

Stages of Team Development: Lessons from the Struggles of Site-Based Management By Nancy Mohr and Alan Dichter. The benefits of site-basedmanagement and teacher empowerment have been widely touted, but the reality does not always live up to the promise. Nancy Mohr and Alan Dichter talk about the purpose of shared decision making (it's for the students, not the adults) and about what they now know about helping a faculty become a learning organization (it's a developmental process, with identifiable stages). An enhanced version, with audio commentary, is available on-line.

Ed Week reviews Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement, by University of Chicago professors Anthony S. Bryk and Barbara Schneider. The professors express their support for improving the quality of instruction, measuring student performance, and reshapingeducation governance. But they argue that without trusting relationships among teachers, principals, parents, and students, such efforts are likely doomed to fail.

Critical Voices by Lynn Olson- Ed Week
In this study, students are both the subjects of research and the researchers.

In The Right Context by Rick DeFour Journal of Staff Development, Winter 2001 (Vol. 22, No. 1) The effective leader concentrates on a foundation of programs, procedures, beliefs, expectations, and habits

Fostering Resiliency in Kids by Bonnie Benard, Despite overwhelming adversity, many children successfully manage to bounce back. What personal characteristics make this possible, and how can schools create environments that support these children?

Learning To Lead, Leading To Learn. NSCD December 2000. Improving school quality through principal professional development.

HORACE – The Journal of the Coalition of Essential Schools.
Editors: Kathleen Cushman (volumes 5-17) Jill Davidson (volumes 18-up)

Small Schools

Small Schools Real Gains
By Patricia A. Wasley and Richard J. Lear. Educational Leadership March 2001.
Research Shows that small schools can help students achieve. To create more small schools, however, we must first overcome some significant barriers.


Research Articles on Small Schools
A collection is current research on small schools provided by the New England Small Schools Network


Urban Dreamcatchers: Launching And Leading New Small Schools
By Jacqueline Ancess. The development of new small schools in New York City.

Small Schools, Next Steps: Voices From The Field
BPI explores the realities of teaching and learning in Chicago's small schools today. While the voices are those of Chicago’s teachers, lead teachers and principals, the issues they explore should interest practitioners, administrators and funders around the country. These issues have relevance for the success and sustainability of small schools everywhere.

National School Reform Faculty/New York @ NYU
Supported by the Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation
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