Essential School Pathways: Connecting Across the Grades: Explores how teachers, parents and administrators are working together to create a coherent educational program from kindergarten through high school. Download PDF
Making the Good School Better: The Essential Question of Rigor: Describes strategies and initiatives that Essential schools are using to raise the quality of student work, to increase the range of students expected to do rigorous work and to develop measures for deciding what is good enough. Download PDF
What Research Suggests About Essential School Ideas: Looks at historical, sociological, statistical, and cognitive research that informed Essential school ideas and presents several key findings that support Essential school change. Download PDF
Less Is More: The Secret of Being Ess: Explores the ramifications of this particularly challenging principle; includes approaches to developing a curriculum that embodies "less is more." Download PDF
Empowering Students: Essential Schools' Missing Link: Examines various ways in which students can be involved and supported as schools work toward more student-centered learning. Download PDF