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Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement

WestEd’s Four Domains framework integrates core areas of focus with critical practices for achieving rapid and significant improvement. The framework, and targeted WestEd support, serve as a compass to help you lead, manage, and sustain improvement plans at school, district, and state levels.

Overview

Our support is aimed at helping you develop a culture of continuous improvement, analyze what’s working, and measure and adjust ongoing success.

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Four Domains Services

  • The Four Domains: WestEd Services for Focusing and Supporting Rapid School Improvement

    Engage educators, strengthen school improvement, and ensure rapid and sustainable growth using the Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement.

  • School Improvement Planning

    As part of our school improvement support, WestEd helps districts and schools meet ESSA requirements, ensures plans are monitored and refined annually through a continuous improvement process. Our methodology—driven by the Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement—promotes systemic change in improving student outcomes.

  • Transformational Leadership Coaching

    Maximize your leadership potential. WestEd delivers engaging training to develop effective and valued school and district leadership teams through training, reflection, analysis, and action planning designed to dramatically improve student learning and achievement.

  • The WestEd Four Domains CALL System

    WestEd assesses leadership capacity and potential across the entire school staff, including administrators, teachers, and support staff. WestEd now offers a measurement system that helps you gather data across essential practices linked to school effectiveness.

  • Comprehensive Needs Assessment

    Collaboration is key to successful school improvement. WestEd partners with your school and/or district to conduct a comprehensive needs assessment focused on the Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement to quickly and accurately identify and strengthen understanding of systemic root causes.

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Special Education

Helping teachers meet the needs of all learners

Ensuring that you can meet the needs of diverse learners and students with disabilities is critical for continuous school improvement. WestEd helps schools and districts improve outcomes for students with disabilities, enabling students to succeed in school and beyond.

WestEd professional learning helps build your knowledge and skills in such areas as:

  • Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
  • Data-informed instruction and intervention
  • Inclusive teaching
  • Co-teaching
  • Special education leadership
  • Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)
  • Differentiation
  • Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) and/or Response to Intervention (RTI)

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English Learners

Improve policies, practices, and instruction for English Learners

WestEd provides schools and districts with a broad range of supports that lead to systemic transformation and increase the success of English Learners. Supporting your efforts toward continuous improvement, our staff uses deep expertise and evidence-based knowledge to help you strengthen policies, practices, and instruction to elevate achievement for all students.

  • WestEd can also help your leadership teams develop an instructional approach to academic literacy and content knowledge in all disciplines to challenge, engage, and support English Learners.
  • WestEd professional learning helps build your knowledge and skills in such areas as:
  • High-quality teaching and support for English Learners
  • Sustainable planning and implementation for schools and districts
  • Support for developing and piloting instructional materials
  • Data analysis of state and local performance and guidance for continuous improvement
  • Observational approaches to increased understanding and adjusting teaching approaches
  • Stakeholder learning and engagement sessions
  • Intensive professional learning opportunities related to ELA/ELD and Mathematics instruction
  • District policy and program review for improved outcomes for English Learners

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Family & Community Engagement

Family Engagement = Student Success

School Improvement becomes a reality when families and teachers work together, as genuine partners, to maximize student learning inside and outside of school.

  • Academic Parent-Teacher Teams (APTT) is a research-based model that will help you transform the way families participate in their children’s education and academic success.
  • WestEd professional learning and APTT help build your knowledge and skills in such areas as:
  • Integrating family engagement into school curricula, instruction, and assessment
  • Improving the quality of parent-teacher communication
  • Helping teachers gain the confidence and skills necessary to work with families
  • Developing home and school partnerships focused on student grade-level learning goals
  • Building community and creating a school culture that honors communities and families as partners

Learn More About Our Family & Community Engagement Services

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