The High School Reform Strategies Toolkit website was made possible through the effort and support of many individuals and organizations.  We especially thank Sheri Ranis of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Jane Hannaway of the Urban Institute for their encouragement, intellectual contributions, and institutional support.  We also are indebted to Tammi Butler, Serena Lei, and Katie Ranney for their outstanding administrative, editorial, and research support, and to Kris Golshan at Surre Solutions for producing the website.  Our advisory board members and module reviewers (identified below) deserve special thanks for their sage guidance along the way.  Their input substantially improved the end product.  We hope that the site, in turn, will support the myriad ways each of them is making a difference through their outstanding work in education research and reform.

Note: The material in this website does not represent the views of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Urban Institute, or any other organizations involved in its production. Although the reviewers gave input into the modules, the writing and all final decisions regarding exclusion or inclusion of materials, best practices, and so forth, can be attributed to the primary contributors and may not represent the views of the reviewers.

Primary Developers:

Nettie Legters, Research Scientist, Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University

Becky Smerdon, Principal Research Scientist and Vice President and Deputy Director of the U.S. Education and Workforce Development Group at the Academy for Education Development

Kristine Early, Research Associate, Academy for Education Development

Acknowledgments:

Grant Officer: Sheri Ranis, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Project Support and Oversight: Jane Hannaway, Urban Institute
Administrative and Business Assistance: Tammi Butler, Urban Institute
Editor: Serena Lei, Urban Institute
Co-author of Annotated Bibliography with Kristine Early: Katie Ranney, student at Northwestern University
Web Development: Kris Golshan at Surre Solutions

Advisory Board Members:
Mark Berends, Vanderbilt University
Gregg Betheil, New York City Public Schools
Jim Connell, First Things First
Julie Edmunds, SERVE University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Corinne Herlihy, MDRC
Monica Martinez, KnowledgeWorks Foundation
Anne Miller, APQC
Diana Oxley, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
Georges Vernez, RAND

**This person reviewed two or more modules.