Free Publications
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How Districts and States Can Support Instructional Transformation In the Turnaround Context
This Center on School Turnaround paper presents guidelines and recommendations for states and districts as they seek to improve systems that support instructional practices.
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Perkins V Implementation: Aligning Career Pathways to Your Region’s Labor Market
Join this webinar to hear how the Nevada Department of Education uses data scenarios to ground conversations and planning during their transition to the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V).
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Perspectives on California's Statewide Math and Science Communities of Practice
This report discusses the development and continued operation of two statewide communities of practice focused on mathematics and science standards implementation.
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Implementing California's Mathematics and Science Standards: Lessons Learned From Regional and County Collaboration
This report presents lessons learned from 13 regional collaboratives working to build partnerships, capacity, and – ultimately – sustainability for mathematics and science standards implementation.
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Building a Foundation for School Discipline Reform: Action Steps for States to Improve the Collection and Use of Data on School Discipline
Learn five key steps that state education agencies can take to improve how they collect, publicly report, and use school discipline data.
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A Cross-State Evaluation of MIND Research Institute’s ST Math Program and Math Performance
This report presents the findings from an assessment of mathematics outcomes in elementary schools across multiple states that were provided with the ST Math program.
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“We Shake Hands at the Door”: How a Focus on Relationships Is Driving Improvement in Chula Vista
Learn how strong relationship-building – teacher to student, student to student, teacher to teacher, and administrator to teacher – guides improvement efforts in San Diego’s Chula Vista Elementary School District.
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A System of Measures to Support Improvement in Teacher Preparation
This paper offers lessons learned from California State University teacher preparation programs engaged in using data to inform improvements in how they prepare teachers for the profession.
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Reflections on Applying Principles of Equitable Evaluation
Equitable evaluation is an approach that addresses the dynamics and practices that have historically undervalued the voices, knowledge, expertise, capacity, and experiences of all evaluation participants and stakeholders, particularly people of color and other marginalized groups. This brief explores how equitable evaluation principles can implemented.
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The College Promise Guidebook for California and Beyond
This resource provides step-by-step guidance to teams who are developing, strengthening, or expanding a College Promise program.
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Improving School Safety: Policy Trends, Assessment, and Prevention
Join us for this 90-minute webinar to learn how state and local leaders are using threat assessment models and school climate improvement to prevent school violence.
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Roadblocks and Routes: Professional Development in Math in Common Districts
This report describes some of the more common roadblocks that Math in Common districts faced in their early years of CCSS-M implementation, along with the routes that the districts took around those roadblocks in order to support teacher and student learning.
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What Accelerates a Community of Practice? Inflection Points That Changed the Course of the Math in Common Initiative
This report describes the trajectory of the Math in Common (MiC) Community of Practice (CoP), including both its missteps and its successes, in the hope that designers or participants of other formal or informal CoPs can leverage the MiC experience and make progress more quickly in their own collaborations.
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Understanding Complex Instructional Change: Classroom Observations of Math in Common Districts
This report describes how teachers participating in the Math in Common initiative made significant shifts in their instruction to help students master the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics.
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Educators Collaborating to Improve Mathematics: Three Structures That Mattered in Math in Common Districts
This report describes how districts participating in the Math in Common initiative approached the implementation of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (CCSS-M) differently than other California districts.
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