Discover successful schools across the country -- and use their best teaching strategies, training materials, and rubrics with your students.

In this series, Schools That Work, Edutopia takes a deep look at what school successes are made of. How principals and teachers, parents and students, and schools and districts collaborate to change the futures of their young people.

We share with you the blueprints that the change makers used -- the contracts, lesson plans, and teacher training tools that could be relevant to your school and your path to change.

Then we do one more thing. We put you together with the change makers themselves. You will meet the teachers and administrators of Schools that Work in our groups and discussions. You will hear about the hurdles they overcame. You will discover how reform comes to life, and how it succeeds.

Welcome to Schools that Work. Join the movement for change.

Support for Edutopia's Schools That Work series is provided, in part, by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.