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	1.	Getting to Know You: The role of relationships in the first four years of a transformation to small schools These publications share the day-to-day struggles and triumphs of educators and students working to create new high schools in Ohio. They cover the first three to five years of efforts to transform underperforming large urban high schools into small personalized schools or to pioneer schools that blend high school and college – revealing the missteps, lessons learned and successful strategies that are boosting graduate rates and sending urban students to college. (PDF, 0 kb)
	2.	Learning to be Leaders: Principal and teachers adjust to expanded roles that give them a greater voice in shaping their small school These publications share the day-to-day struggles and triumphs of educators and students working to create new high schools in Ohio. They cover the first three to five years of efforts to transform underperforming large urban high schools into small personalized schools or to pioneer schools that blend high school and college – revealing the missteps, lessons learned and successful strategies that are boosting graduate rates and sending urban students to college. (PDF, 0 kb)
	3.	A Different School of Thought: The first three years in the life of an innovative school that blends high school and college These publications share the day-to-day struggles and triumphs of educators and students working to create new high schools in Ohio. They cover the first three to five years of efforts to transform underperforming large urban high schools into small personalized schools or to pioneer schools that blend high school and college – revealing the missteps, lessons learned and successful strategies that are boosting graduate rates and sending urban students to college. (PDF, 0 kb)

	1.	Public Schools and Economic Development: What the Research Shows KnowledgeWorks Foundation is pleased to announce our publication, Public Schools and Economic Development: What the Research Shows. Critical to our vision as an education foundation is a belief that a highly educated and skilled populace benefits both individuals and the community as a whole. As a result, we enlisted Jonathan Weiss, a nationally recognized expert in community sustainability and economic development, to review the existing research on the relationship between schools and economic development. (PDF, 0 kb)
	2.	Dollars & Sense: The Cost Effectiveness of Small Schools Dollars & Sense summarizes research on the educational and social benefits of small schools and the negative effects of large schools on students, teachers, and members of the community, as well as the "diseconomies of scale" inherent in large schools. In addition, Dollars & Sense answers two fundamental questions: can small schools be built cost effectively, and has anyone done so? Using data drawn from 489 schools submitted to design competitions in 1990-2001, Dollars and Sense answers both questions with a resounding yes, demonstrating that small schools are not prohibitively expensive. Investing tax dollars in small schools does make sense. (PDF, 290 kb)
	3.	10 Principles of Authentic Community Engagement It is common for school facilities planners to assert the need for community engagement in the school facilities planning process, and a few key principles emerge that characterize authentic community engagement. (PDF, 508 kb)