Resources
Resources to Power Transformation
Here you’ll find tools, guides, and other resources designed to help you advance high school transformation.
Reimagining High Schools and Education Systems
A New Architecture for High School Learning
The State Education Standard (2023)
Russlynn Ali and Timothy F. C. Knowles discuss how state leaders can inspire and support high school transformation and offer questions that leaders can ask to move the work forward.
https://www.nasbe.org/a-new-architecture-for-high-school-learning/
Ours to Solve, Once—and for All: Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
The Education Futures Council at the Hoover Institution (2024)
In 2023, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University formed the Education Futures Council to analyze the state of education in America. The Council’s 2024 report calls for a radical rethinking of the entire education system—one that makes student outcomes the “North Star”; flips the traditional hierarchy to make schools and the professionals who work in them the primary actors in the system; and imagines a new role for state education agencies. Transformed high schools will flourish best in a transformed system, and this report offers a provocative starting point to consider what that could look like.
The First Class
XQ (2024)
This documentary from award-winning director Lee Hirsh follows community leaders, educators, and students who founded the ground-breaking Crosstown High School in Memphis, Tennessee. “The First Class” is a powerful tool for gaining a deeper understanding of high school transformation and a vehicle for inspiring action in other communities.
A Research and Development Agenda for High School Transformation
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2025)
Through extensive collaboration with students, families, educators, employers, and community based leaders nationally, Carnegie has identified eight interconnected R&D priorities, to help catalyze and sustain high school transformation. These priorities are undergirded by two important cross cutting priorities: the implementation of robust, well-aligned public policy and the development of coherent educational infrastructure – the physical, digital, and social structures necessary to deliver impact at scale.
https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/our-work/high-school-transformation/carnegie-rd-agenda/
A New Architecture for High School Learning
The State Education Standard (2023)
Russlynn Ali and Timothy F. C. Knowles discuss how state leaders can inspire and support high school transformation and offer questions that leaders can ask to move the work forward.
https://www.nasbe.org/a-new-architecture-for-high-school-learning/
Ours to Solve, Once—and for All: Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
The Education Futures Council at the Hoover Institution (2024)
In 2023, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University formed the Education Futures Council to analyze the state of education in America. The Council’s 2024 report calls for a radical rethinking of the entire education system—one that makes student outcomes the “North Star”; flips the traditional hierarchy to make schools and the professionals who work in them the primary actors in the system; and imagines a new role for state education agencies. Transformed high schools will flourish best in a transformed system, and this report offers a provocative starting point to consider what that could look like.
The First Class
XQ (2024)
This documentary from award-winning director Lee Hirsh follows community leaders, educators, and students who founded the ground-breaking Crosstown High School in Memphis, Tennessee. “The First Class” is a powerful tool for gaining a deeper understanding of high school transformation and a vehicle for inspiring action in other communities.
A Research and Development Agenda for High School Transformation
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2025)
Through extensive collaboration with students, families, educators, employers, and community based leaders nationally, Carnegie has identified eight interconnected R&D priorities, to help catalyze and sustain high school transformation. These priorities are undergirded by two important cross cutting priorities: the implementation of robust, well-aligned public policy and the development of coherent educational infrastructure – the physical, digital, and social structures necessary to deliver impact at scale.
https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/our-work/high-school-transformation/carnegie-rd-agenda/
A New Architecture for High School Learning
The State Education Standard (2023)
Russlynn Ali and Timothy F. C. Knowles discuss how state leaders can inspire and support high school transformation and offer questions that leaders can ask to move the work forward.
https://www.nasbe.org/a-new-architecture-for-high-school-learning/
Ours to Solve, Once—and for All: Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
The Education Futures Council at the Hoover Institution (2024)
In 2023, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University formed the Education Futures Council to analyze the state of education in America. The Council’s 2024 report calls for a radical rethinking of the entire education system—one that makes student outcomes the “North Star”; flips the traditional hierarchy to make schools and the professionals who work in them the primary actors in the system; and imagines a new role for state education agencies. Transformed high schools will flourish best in a transformed system, and this report offers a provocative starting point to consider what that could look like.
The First Class
XQ (2024)
This documentary from award-winning director Lee Hirsh follows community leaders, educators, and students who founded the ground-breaking Crosstown High School in Memphis, Tennessee. “The First Class” is a powerful tool for gaining a deeper understanding of high school transformation and a vehicle for inspiring action in other communities.
A Research and Development Agenda for High School Transformation
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2025)
Through extensive collaboration with students, families, educators, employers, and community based leaders nationally, Carnegie has identified eight interconnected R&D priorities, to help catalyze and sustain high school transformation. These priorities are undergirded by two important cross cutting priorities: the implementation of robust, well-aligned public policy and the development of coherent educational infrastructure – the physical, digital, and social structures necessary to deliver impact at scale.
https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/our-work/high-school-transformation/carnegie-rd-agenda/
A New Architecture for High School Learning
The State Education Standard (2023)
Russlynn Ali and Timothy F. C. Knowles discuss how state leaders can inspire and support high school transformation and offer questions that leaders can ask to move the work forward.
https://www.nasbe.org/a-new-architecture-for-high-school-learning/
Ours to Solve, Once—and for All: Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
The Education Futures Council at the Hoover Institution (2024)
In 2023, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University formed the Education Futures Council to analyze the state of education in America. The Council’s 2024 report calls for a radical rethinking of the entire education system—one that makes student outcomes the “North Star”; flips the traditional hierarchy to make schools and the professionals who work in them the primary actors in the system; and imagines a new role for state education agencies. Transformed high schools will flourish best in a transformed system, and this report offers a provocative starting point to consider what that could look like.
The First Class
XQ (2024)
This documentary from award-winning director Lee Hirsh follows community leaders, educators, and students who founded the ground-breaking Crosstown High School in Memphis, Tennessee. “The First Class” is a powerful tool for gaining a deeper understanding of high school transformation and a vehicle for inspiring action in other communities.
A Research and Development Agenda for High School Transformation
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2025)
Through extensive collaboration with students, families, educators, employers, and community based leaders nationally, Carnegie has identified eight interconnected R&D priorities, to help catalyze and sustain high school transformation. These priorities are undergirded by two important cross cutting priorities: the implementation of robust, well-aligned public policy and the development of coherent educational infrastructure – the physical, digital, and social structures necessary to deliver impact at scale.
https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/our-work/high-school-transformation/carnegie-rd-agenda/
A New Architecture for High School Learning
The State Education Standard (2023)
Russlynn Ali and Timothy F. C. Knowles discuss how state leaders can inspire and support high school transformation and offer questions that leaders can ask to move the work forward.
https://www.nasbe.org/a-new-architecture-for-high-school-learning/
Ours to Solve, Once—and for All: Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
The Education Futures Council at the Hoover Institution (2024)
In 2023, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University formed the Education Futures Council to analyze the state of education in America. The Council’s 2024 report calls for a radical rethinking of the entire education system—one that makes student outcomes the “North Star”; flips the traditional hierarchy to make schools and the professionals who work in them the primary actors in the system; and imagines a new role for state education agencies. Transformed high schools will flourish best in a transformed system, and this report offers a provocative starting point to consider what that could look like.
The First Class
XQ (2024)
This documentary from award-winning director Lee Hirsh follows community leaders, educators, and students who founded the ground-breaking Crosstown High School in Memphis, Tennessee. “The First Class” is a powerful tool for gaining a deeper understanding of high school transformation and a vehicle for inspiring action in other communities.
A Research and Development Agenda for High School Transformation
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2025)
Through extensive collaboration with students, families, educators, employers, and community based leaders nationally, Carnegie has identified eight interconnected R&D priorities, to help catalyze and sustain high school transformation. These priorities are undergirded by two important cross cutting priorities: the implementation of robust, well-aligned public policy and the development of coherent educational infrastructure – the physical, digital, and social structures necessary to deliver impact at scale.
https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/our-work/high-school-transformation/carnegie-rd-agenda/
A New Architecture for High School Learning
The State Education Standard (2023)
Russlynn Ali and Timothy F. C. Knowles discuss how state leaders can inspire and support high school transformation and offer questions that leaders can ask to move the work forward.
https://www.nasbe.org/a-new-architecture-for-high-school-learning/
Ours to Solve, Once—and for All: Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
The Education Futures Council at the Hoover Institution (2024)
In 2023, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University formed the Education Futures Council to analyze the state of education in America. The Council’s 2024 report calls for a radical rethinking of the entire education system—one that makes student outcomes the “North Star”; flips the traditional hierarchy to make schools and the professionals who work in them the primary actors in the system; and imagines a new role for state education agencies. Transformed high schools will flourish best in a transformed system, and this report offers a provocative starting point to consider what that could look like.
The First Class
XQ (2024)
This documentary from award-winning director Lee Hirsh follows community leaders, educators, and students who founded the ground-breaking Crosstown High School in Memphis, Tennessee. “The First Class” is a powerful tool for gaining a deeper understanding of high school transformation and a vehicle for inspiring action in other communities.
A Research and Development Agenda for High School Transformation
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2025)
Through extensive collaboration with students, families, educators, employers, and community based leaders nationally, Carnegie has identified eight interconnected R&D priorities, to help catalyze and sustain high school transformation. These priorities are undergirded by two important cross cutting priorities: the implementation of robust, well-aligned public policy and the development of coherent educational infrastructure – the physical, digital, and social structures necessary to deliver impact at scale.
https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/our-work/high-school-transformation/carnegie-rd-agenda/
A New Architecture for High School Learning
The State Education Standard (2023)
Russlynn Ali and Timothy F. C. Knowles discuss how state leaders can inspire and support high school transformation and offer questions that leaders can ask to move the work forward.
https://www.nasbe.org/a-new-architecture-for-high-school-learning/
Ours to Solve, Once—and for All: Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
The Education Futures Council at the Hoover Institution (2024)
In 2023, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University formed the Education Futures Council to analyze the state of education in America. The Council’s 2024 report calls for a radical rethinking of the entire education system—one that makes student outcomes the “North Star”; flips the traditional hierarchy to make schools and the professionals who work in them the primary actors in the system; and imagines a new role for state education agencies. Transformed high schools will flourish best in a transformed system, and this report offers a provocative starting point to consider what that could look like.
The First Class
XQ (2024)
This documentary from award-winning director Lee Hirsh follows community leaders, educators, and students who founded the ground-breaking Crosstown High School in Memphis, Tennessee. “The First Class” is a powerful tool for gaining a deeper understanding of high school transformation and a vehicle for inspiring action in other communities.
A Research and Development Agenda for High School Transformation
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2025)
Through extensive collaboration with students, families, educators, employers, and community based leaders nationally, Carnegie has identified eight interconnected R&D priorities, to help catalyze and sustain high school transformation. These priorities are undergirded by two important cross cutting priorities: the implementation of robust, well-aligned public policy and the development of coherent educational infrastructure – the physical, digital, and social structures necessary to deliver impact at scale.
https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/our-work/high-school-transformation/carnegie-rd-agenda/
A New Architecture for High School Learning
The State Education Standard (2023)
Russlynn Ali and Timothy F. C. Knowles discuss how state leaders can inspire and support high school transformation and offer questions that leaders can ask to move the work forward.
https://www.nasbe.org/a-new-architecture-for-high-school-learning/
Ours to Solve, Once—and for All: Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
The Education Futures Council at the Hoover Institution (2024)
In 2023, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University formed the Education Futures Council to analyze the state of education in America. The Council’s 2024 report calls for a radical rethinking of the entire education system—one that makes student outcomes the “North Star”; flips the traditional hierarchy to make schools and the professionals who work in them the primary actors in the system; and imagines a new role for state education agencies. Transformed high schools will flourish best in a transformed system, and this report offers a provocative starting point to consider what that could look like.
The First Class
XQ (2024)
This documentary from award-winning director Lee Hirsh follows community leaders, educators, and students who founded the ground-breaking Crosstown High School in Memphis, Tennessee. “The First Class” is a powerful tool for gaining a deeper understanding of high school transformation and a vehicle for inspiring action in other communities.
A Research and Development Agenda for High School Transformation
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2025)
Through extensive collaboration with students, families, educators, employers, and community based leaders nationally, Carnegie has identified eight interconnected R&D priorities, to help catalyze and sustain high school transformation. These priorities are undergirded by two important cross cutting priorities: the implementation of robust, well-aligned public policy and the development of coherent educational infrastructure – the physical, digital, and social structures necessary to deliver impact at scale.
https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/our-work/high-school-transformation/carnegie-rd-agenda/
A New Architecture for High School Learning
The State Education Standard (2023)
Russlynn Ali and Timothy F. C. Knowles discuss how state leaders can inspire and support high school transformation and offer questions that leaders can ask to move the work forward.
https://www.nasbe.org/a-new-architecture-for-high-school-learning/
Ours to Solve, Once—and for All: Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
The Education Futures Council at the Hoover Institution (2024)
In 2023, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University formed the Education Futures Council to analyze the state of education in America. The Council’s 2024 report calls for a radical rethinking of the entire education system—one that makes student outcomes the “North Star”; flips the traditional hierarchy to make schools and the professionals who work in them the primary actors in the system; and imagines a new role for state education agencies. Transformed high schools will flourish best in a transformed system, and this report offers a provocative starting point to consider what that could look like.
The First Class
XQ (2024)
This documentary from award-winning director Lee Hirsh follows community leaders, educators, and students who founded the ground-breaking Crosstown High School in Memphis, Tennessee. “The First Class” is a powerful tool for gaining a deeper understanding of high school transformation and a vehicle for inspiring action in other communities.
A Research and Development Agenda for High School Transformation
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2025)
Through extensive collaboration with students, families, educators, employers, and community based leaders nationally, Carnegie has identified eight interconnected R&D priorities, to help catalyze and sustain high school transformation. These priorities are undergirded by two important cross cutting priorities: the implementation of robust, well-aligned public policy and the development of coherent educational infrastructure – the physical, digital, and social structures necessary to deliver impact at scale.
https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/our-work/high-school-transformation/carnegie-rd-agenda/
A New Architecture for High School Learning
The State Education Standard (2023)
Russlynn Ali and Timothy F. C. Knowles discuss how state leaders can inspire and support high school transformation and offer questions that leaders can ask to move the work forward.
https://www.nasbe.org/a-new-architecture-for-high-school-learning/
Ours to Solve, Once—and for All: Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
The Education Futures Council at the Hoover Institution (2024)
In 2023, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University formed the Education Futures Council to analyze the state of education in America. The Council’s 2024 report calls for a radical rethinking of the entire education system—one that makes student outcomes the “North Star”; flips the traditional hierarchy to make schools and the professionals who work in them the primary actors in the system; and imagines a new role for state education agencies. Transformed high schools will flourish best in a transformed system, and this report offers a provocative starting point to consider what that could look like.
The First Class
XQ (2024)
This documentary from award-winning director Lee Hirsh follows community leaders, educators, and students who founded the ground-breaking Crosstown High School in Memphis, Tennessee. “The First Class” is a powerful tool for gaining a deeper understanding of high school transformation and a vehicle for inspiring action in other communities.
A Research and Development Agenda for High School Transformation
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2025)
Through extensive collaboration with students, families, educators, employers, and community based leaders nationally, Carnegie has identified eight interconnected R&D priorities, to help catalyze and sustain high school transformation. These priorities are undergirded by two important cross cutting priorities: the implementation of robust, well-aligned public policy and the development of coherent educational infrastructure – the physical, digital, and social structures necessary to deliver impact at scale.
https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/our-work/high-school-transformation/carnegie-rd-agenda/
A New Architecture for High School Learning
The State Education Standard (2023)
Russlynn Ali and Timothy F. C. Knowles discuss how state leaders can inspire and support high school transformation and offer questions that leaders can ask to move the work forward.
https://www.nasbe.org/a-new-architecture-for-high-school-learning/
Ours to Solve, Once—and for All: Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
The Education Futures Council at the Hoover Institution (2024)
In 2023, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University formed the Education Futures Council to analyze the state of education in America. The Council’s 2024 report calls for a radical rethinking of the entire education system—one that makes student outcomes the “North Star”; flips the traditional hierarchy to make schools and the professionals who work in them the primary actors in the system; and imagines a new role for state education agencies. Transformed high schools will flourish best in a transformed system, and this report offers a provocative starting point to consider what that could look like.
The First Class
XQ (2024)
This documentary from award-winning director Lee Hirsh follows community leaders, educators, and students who founded the ground-breaking Crosstown High School in Memphis, Tennessee. “The First Class” is a powerful tool for gaining a deeper understanding of high school transformation and a vehicle for inspiring action in other communities.
A Research and Development Agenda for High School Transformation
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2025)
Through extensive collaboration with students, families, educators, employers, and community based leaders nationally, Carnegie has identified eight interconnected R&D priorities, to help catalyze and sustain high school transformation. These priorities are undergirded by two important cross cutting priorities: the implementation of robust, well-aligned public policy and the development of coherent educational infrastructure – the physical, digital, and social structures necessary to deliver impact at scale.
https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/our-work/high-school-transformation/carnegie-rd-agenda/
A New Architecture for High School Learning
The State Education Standard (2023)
Russlynn Ali and Timothy F. C. Knowles discuss how state leaders can inspire and support high school transformation and offer questions that leaders can ask to move the work forward.
https://www.nasbe.org/a-new-architecture-for-high-school-learning/
Ours to Solve, Once—and for All: Securing the Outcomes Our Students Need
The Education Futures Council at the Hoover Institution (2024)
In 2023, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University formed the Education Futures Council to analyze the state of education in America. The Council’s 2024 report calls for a radical rethinking of the entire education system—one that makes student outcomes the “North Star”; flips the traditional hierarchy to make schools and the professionals who work in them the primary actors in the system; and imagines a new role for state education agencies. Transformed high schools will flourish best in a transformed system, and this report offers a provocative starting point to consider what that could look like.
The First Class
XQ (2024)
This documentary from award-winning director Lee Hirsh follows community leaders, educators, and students who founded the ground-breaking Crosstown High School in Memphis, Tennessee. “The First Class” is a powerful tool for gaining a deeper understanding of high school transformation and a vehicle for inspiring action in other communities.
A Research and Development Agenda for High School Transformation
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2025)
Through extensive collaboration with students, families, educators, employers, and community based leaders nationally, Carnegie has identified eight interconnected R&D priorities, to help catalyze and sustain high school transformation. These priorities are undergirded by two important cross cutting priorities: the implementation of robust, well-aligned public policy and the development of coherent educational infrastructure – the physical, digital, and social structures necessary to deliver impact at scale.
https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/our-work/high-school-transformation/carnegie-rd-agenda/
Policy resources