Free Publications
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Creating New Futures for Newcomers: Lessons from Five Schools that Serve K–12 Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylees
This report, developed through a partnership between MAEC and WestEd, highlights schools that are using promising and effective strategies for supporting immigrant and refugee students in K–12 classrooms.
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College-Ready in the California State University System: Campus Experiences Implementing EO 1110
This report is the first in a series examining how campuses in the California State University (CSU) system are implementing Executive Order 1110.
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Leveraging Strong Workforce Funding to Build an Innovative Infrastructure: How Community Colleges Take a Regional Approach to Guided Pathways in the San Diego and Imperial Region
Leaders from 10 San Diego-area community colleges and regional stakeholders are reforming the community college experience by providing students with clear, streamlined, and efficient paths toward completion.
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High School Students’ Perceptions of Police Vary by Student Race and Ethnicity: Findings from an Analysis of the California Healthy Kids Survey, 2017/18
In response to public concern about school violence, many schools are partnering with law enforcement to increase the presence of officers in schools. However, a police presence, whether at school or in the community, may not make all young people feel safe.
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Collaborative Lesson Planning through Plan-Observe-Debrief (POD) Cylces
In this archived webinar, WestEd and educators from Atwater Elementary School District present on a multi-day process where teachers collaborate on the intentional design of a lesson, observe one another implement the designed lesson, and provide one another coaching and feedback on lesson delivery.
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Providing High-Quality Options: Supporting Charter School Improvement
Learn how to assess whether a low-performing charter school is a good candidate for rapid improvement, and how using the Four Domains framework can leverage charter school autonomies to bolster turnaround efforts.
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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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Making the Most of the Governor’s Budget Proposal: Recommendations for Aligning Reporting Requirements From the LCFF Test Kitchen
Drawing from the experiences of the LCFF Test Kitchen — a joint project of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, Pivot Learning, and WestEd designed to foster innovation in local school districts as they implement LCFF — this brief offers four recommendations for designing a single, web-based reporting platform for K–12 education agencies through a process that values end users and fosters innovation.
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Are Metal Detectors Effective at Making Schools Safer?
With the tragedies of school violence igniting calls for increased safety and security, one popular proposal is to use metal detectors in schools. This research brief summarizes what is known about metal detectors in schools and in other settings.
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Restorative Justice in U.S. Schools: An Updated Research Review
This updated review documents the current breadth of evidence on restorative justice, provides a more comprehensive picture of how restorative practices are implemented in schools, and lays the groundwork for future research, implementation, and policy.
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Evaluation of uAspire’s Afford Program: Year 4 Final Annual Report
WestEd’s evaluation of uAspire’s Afford program describes findings on both the implementation and impact of the program for the 2017-2018 implementation year and summarizes results from the previous years of the study.
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Investing in Science Teacher Leadership: Strategies and Impacts in the NGSS Early Implementers Initiative
This evaluation report explains how the NGSS Early Implementers Initiative prepared teachers for leadership in NGSS teaching, including how it created a culture of collaboration that produced change agents for science education and NGSS implementation.
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Fostering Collaboration Between District and Charter Schools: A Toolkit for State and Local Leaders
This toolkit helps policymakers facilitate collaboration between public and charter schools to improve education quality and increase school-choice access for all students.
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Creating Trauma-Informed Learning Environments
This brief, produced by the Mid-Atlantic Comprehensive Center at WestEd, offers five important actions teachers can take to design trauma-sensitive learning environments.
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Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Scale-Up: Study of Four States
This report documents how four states have scaled-up the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative, summarizes lessons learned from implementation, and presents key findings that can inform practice and guide future scale-ups.
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