The School Redesign Network is a learning collaborative that helps school leaders to develop a broader knowledge base about school design, teaching and learning, curriculum and assessment, and professional development, and a deeper understanding of the features of schools that have been successfully redesigned to support excellence and equity.

The School Redesign Network is supported by a generous grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We would like to express special thanks to the foundation for its important efforts to support effective schools for all children, and to all of the many students, parents, teachers, and advocates who are creating these schools in their daily work together.

• to serve as a clearinghouse of research and information on small schools and redesigned traditional schools, including the design features that make a difference in effectiveness
• to support and strengthen the ongoing work of current small schools and redesigned traditional schools to serve as models for new and emerging such schools
• to increase the pool of redesigned school leaders and teachers
• to create a California faculty and research cadre that will develop, document, and disseminate understandings about performance assessment practices that support and document learning
• to document the impact and outcomes of current and new small schools and redesigned traditional schools