Resources for Agencies & Educators
Comprehensive & Rigorous Education
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Highlighting Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Practices Within Districts Across New York State
A collection of videos to support educators who are implementing New York’s Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework.
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Centering Equity in Rhode Island’s New Curriculum Frameworks
A blog post about the development of new legislatively mandated curriculum frameworks for mathematics, science, and English language arts.
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Creating Conditions for Foundational Science Experiences: Lessons Learned from Revising Rhode Island’s Early Learning and Development Standards
A blog post about expanding and enriching the science component of the Rhode Island Early Learning and Development Standards.
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Raising Awareness of the New York State Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework
A series of six framework briefs as well as professional development materials to assist with the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework roll out.
Educator Workforce
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Equitable & Inclusive Hiring Practices: A Reference Guide to Grow and Diversify Rhode Island’s Educator Workforces
A reference guide with recommendations for improved hiring practices that will help local education agencies attract, recruit, and retain a highly skilled and diverse workforce that reflects Rhode Island’s students.
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Going Beyond the Data in Diversifying the Teacher Workforce
A blog post about our partnership with the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands to support educational leaders in Connecticut to recruit and retain educators of color.
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Enhancing Certification Reciprocity to Expand Connecticut’s Educator Talent Pool
A tool developed to compare Connecticut’s certification requirements with those of other states and territories and reduce the time required for state education agency analysts to approve certification for out-of-state candidates.
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How Region 2 States Are Leveraging Innovative Strategies to Address Critical Shortages of Education Personnel
A brief highlighting how Region 2 states are innovating to address workforce shortages and provides additional considerations to address these shortages in both the short and long term.
Student Mental Health and Well-Being
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Centering Equity in Social Emotional Learning
A blog about a fruitful partnership to revise and align New York’s social emotional learning benchmarks with the state’s equity-centered initiatives.
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Partnering with Connecticut on New Social-Emotional Learning Guidelines
A blog about support and capacity building activities to further the development and implementation of the Components of Social, Emotional and Intellectual Habits: Grades 4 through 12 (SEIH) document.
College & Career Pathways
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Graduation Requirements and Measures: A Review of Performance Assessment Implementation in Select States for the New York State Education Department
A brief containing seven state case studies that illustrate the implementation of performance-based assessments.
Multilingual Learners
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Supporting Rhode Island to Develop a Multilingual Learner Blueprint and Strategic Plan
A press release about our engagement with the Rhode Island Department of Education to develop a Blueprint for Multilingual Learner Success and accompanying Strategic Plan.
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Rhode Island’s Blueprint for Multilingual Learner Success
A blueprint that lays out a vision and research-based principles for what must be in place at all levels of the educational system in Rhode Island for multilingual learners to thrive.
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Rhode Island’s Strategic Plan for Multilingual Learner Success
A strategic plan that outlines goals, high-level strategies, and action steps that Rhode Island Department of Education will undertake in its five-year plan for improving multilingual learner outcomes.