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The K-8 NGSS Early Implementers Initiative has consistently expanded the professional learning it provides for administrators, particularly for site administrators, who generally have the most contact with teachers.
NGSS Early Implementers is a six-year initiative created to help eight California school districts and two charter management organizations implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The initiative has provided professional learning about environmental literacy to prompt and support...
This report describes the school experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning or queer students. It draws on two years of California Healthy Kids Survey data from approximately 800,000 secondary school students and their perceptions of school supports, school safety, school...
This report illustrates how Carnegie Math Pathways corequisite courses, Quantway College with Corequisite and Statway College with Corequisite, provide an effective alternative to traditional remediation.
NGSS Early Implementers is a six-year initiative created to help eight California school districts and two charter management organizations implement the Next Generation Science Standards. This report explores how Teaching Learning Collaboratives (or lesson studies) served as the cornerstone...
Written intentionally for school leaders, board members, and charter school authorizers, this report and accompanying video share Perry Street Preparatory Public Charter School's story of comprehensive improvement and describes the necessary conditions for turnaround success.