Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform, National Association of Secondary School Principals: The Education Alliance, Brown University, 2004.

• Advisory Programs: a robust resource guide for step-by-step implementation of an advisory program and lessons learned in Indiana.


• Hands-On Advisory: Curriculum, Themes, and Activities: - from Independent Schools Management offering a workshop during the summer for designing and implementing an advisory program. Also offers a compendium of articles in their "Advisory Programs" publication.


• Advisory Program Research and Evaluation: - Reviews the research bolstering advisory programs and supports the investment of putting it at the core of a school.


• Middle School Advisory Resources: provides a variety of links to useful articles and information sources


• NAESP: Making the Most of Advisory Programs: - proposes three models for middle school advisory programs selecting the student centered program as best. Includes tips for building strong advisory programs.
  
• High School Advisory: - Reviews the research findings, program goals, program effectiveness, administrative considerations, possible program models, parent contributions, teacher resistance and common reasons for program failure.


• Ideal size for a small learning community/Stanford University: - Discusses the research background and arguments for the "school within a school" and "school within a building" design concepts for reducing the school size. The author notes that the organizational design that supports the learning needs of students of the long term should drive the design of restructuring the comprehensive high school design.


• High School Reform Models that Support Student Achievement: - The DOE Office of Vocational and Adult Education provides resources and information on numerous high school reform models.


• Noteworthy Practices: - The DOE Office of Vocational and Adult Education provides resources and information on setting expectations and aligning systems, accountability and data and school reform models.


• Structures and Strategies -- Smaller Learning Communities Program: - Describes the smaller learning community structures including academies, house plans, school-within-a-school, magnet schools and how smaller learning community strategies work to enhance the various structures. Strategies include freshman transition activities, multi-year groups, alternative scheduling, adult advocate systems, teacher advisory systems and academic teaming.


• Small Learning Communities: - Variations on small learning communities and current research.


• Ayres, L. "Middle School Advisory Programs: Findings from the Field," Middle School Journal 25:3(1994):8-14.


• Stivenson, C. Teaching Ten-to-Fourteen Year-Olds. New York: Longman, 1998: 303-309