Creating and Sustaining Secondary Schools’ Success: Sandfields, Cwmtawe, and the Neath-Port Talbot Local Authority’s High Reliability Schools Reform

by Sam Stringfield, David Reynolds & Eugene Schaffer
Data from a 15-year, mixed-methods study of all 11 secondary schools in one British local authority demonstrate the value of adopting High Reliability Organization principles.
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Mutual Adaptation in Action

by Leslie Santee Siskin
This paper explores a distinctive aspect of International Baccalaureate’s effort to scale up in Title I schools. The effort reflects what we call mutual adaptation in action.
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The Children Come Full: From High Leverage to Humanizing and Culturally Sustaining Literacy Practices in Urban Schools

by Kindel Nash & Leah Panther
This research note offers a critique of high leverage practices, refuting previous claims from a 2016 Teachers College Record commentary based on the authors' study, which initially sought to investigate high leverage practices. It includes discussion about the evolution of the authors' understanding of high leverage practices and eventual decision to abandon that concept based on findings from their study.