The Four Drivers of Redesign
The Cross State High School Redesign Collaborative is built around a hopeful, positive, future-orientated framework to redesign high schools for the 21st Century. We organize the evidence base into four key drivers of student outcomes that schools can directly influence and impact.
What is The CSHSC?
This two-minute video describes the Cross State High School Redesign Collaborative’s goals for high school redesign.
About CSHSC
The Cross State High School Redesign Collaborative (CSHSC) was established in 2017 and is a joint effort of six participating states, Ohio, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, supported by the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Education, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and Civic Enterprises.
The goal is to use the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to enable high schools with low graduation rates in under-served communities to reinvent themselves and become institutions that propel adolescents to adult success in their communities in the 21st century.
The participating states and partners are co-developing an evidence-based high school redesign process with supportive tools and practices. Learn more.
Getting Started
XQ Super School Redesign Resources
The XQ Super School Project offers a wide-variety of valuable multi-media resources to help redesign teams through the challenges and rewards of redesign.
XQ Knowledge Modules
A mix of cutting-edge academic research and inspiration to help anyone think boldly about both the possibilities and the realities of rethinking high school. Read more.
XQ Expert Series
A series of conversations with transformational leaders in education. Each module contains inspiring stories, examples, and lessons learned from across the country. Read more.
High School Redesign Workbook
High School Redesign Workbook is a comprehensive redesign tool designed by CSHSC collaborators to assist in the sequencing and design of your high school redesign. Updated in May, 2022, tt is easily customizable to include specific shool, district, and/or state redesign components.
Conduct Needs Assessments
Needs assessments help schools identify current areas of challenge and where evidence-based redesign improvement strategies can be best be applied. Learn more. . .
Inviting Community Input
Community Input from students, parents, educators, redesign partners, and community members is a vital component to high school design. Engaging community participation in redesign helps revitalize the high school community. Learn more.
The New ABCs
The new ABCs are an expansion of the traditional Attendance, Behavior, and Course Performance ABCs for developing our capacities for Agency, Belonging, and Connectedness to nurture a culture of joy in our school communities. Learn More
Upcoming Events
High School Redesign Conversations
We have created a few opportunities for our alumni and current High School Redesign Cohorts to come together and engage in conversations to continue in genuine connection as a network.
We are welcoming all of our High School Redesign School Teams to check-in, share ideas, examples of practice, and through shared reflections leave feeling rejuvenated and inspired. We hope you will be able to join us. Below is a schedule of our conversations. Learn More.
Click here for CSHSC Events Calendar
Click here for a listing of all past CSHSC Events
Redesign News
2025 Community Collaboration Challenge
The National Partnership for Student Success Hub at the Everyone Graduates Center has kicked off the 2025 Community Collaboration Challenge! With support from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation, $5,000-$10,000 awards will be given to nonprofits, state/local agencies, and school districts to create, expand, and pilot efforts to increase NPSS-aligned student support roles. Additional points will be awarded to applicants who address chronic absenteeism or engage high school students as tutors, mentors, etc. in support of their younger peers. The deadline to apply is November 15th, 2024! Learn More of Apply
In addition to funding, grantees will also have access to technical assistance from the NPSS Hub in the form of tools, guidance, access to networks, support identifying local high-quality student support providers, and connections to other communities. Interested applicants can join the NPSS Hub for office hours or send questions to information@npstudentsuccess.org.
Why Redesign?
Now more than ever before it’s clear that the current educational system was not designed to provide pathways to happiness and success in life for ALL of our young people.
High school redesign affords educators the opportunity to co-create a school community where all want to be—one which brings joy to students and adults alike.
The New ABCs
Developing our capacities for agency, belonging, and connectedness nurture a culture of joy in our school communities. Learn More
Join the Conversation
We have created an opportunity for our alumni and current high school redesign cohorts to come together and engage in conversations to continue in genuine connection as a network.
We are hosting three 75-minute virtual sessions. Each session will be loosely structured around a theme or tool. We are welcoming all of our high school redesign school teams to join the conversation to check-in, share ideas, examples of practice, and through shared reflections leave feeling rejuvenated and inspired. We hope you will be able to join us.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 2:00pm EST
Join us to share and explore how youth leadership across our campuses and network is creating generative school environments.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 2:00pm EST
Join us to share and explore how youth leadership across our campuses and network is creating generative school environments.
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 2:00pm EST
Join us to share how our team reflection tool might support agency, belonging and connection for all members of our school community.
Relationships: the Superpower of Redesign
CSHSC’s goal is to assist schools high schools in high-needs communities to reinvent themselves and become institutions that propel adolescents towards adult success in their communities.
Building and fostering postivie relationships inside and outside the school are vital to successful implementation of the Four Key Drivers.
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Shifting MindsetsBuilding relationships often means shifting existing mindsets.
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What the Evidence SaysUse evidence-based research and approaches to build positive relationships.
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