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Keep Teaching Science! Successful Strategies to Adapt K–12 Science Experiences for Distance Learning
This report from the NextGenScience team highlights strategies and hands-on examples of effective and equitable adaptations for science teaching and learning at a distance.
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Keep Teaching Science: Successful Strategies to Adapt K–12 Science Experiences for Distance Learning
Explore how science lessons and units can be adapted for distance learning while maintaining or enhancing the vision of the Next Generation Science Standards.
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Six Years of Scaling Up: Districtwide Implementations of the Next Generation Science Standards
This 12th report in WestEd's NGSS Early Implementers evaluation series for policymakers, school and district administrators, and professional learning specialists describes the Initiative’s scale-up in its later years to reach all K–8 science teachers.
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It’s About TIME: A Rigorous New Process for Selecting Instructional Materials for Science
This report provides an overview of the full the California Next Generation Science Standards (CA NGSS) Toolkit for Instructional Materials Evaluation (TIME) process, participants’ perceptions of TIME, a detailed description of statewide TIME trainings, challenges to implementing the TIME process, and recommendations for adoption committees supporting districts’ NGSS implementation.
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Building Leadership Capacity to Improve Math Teaching and Learning: Lessons from the Math in Common Initiative
This brief offers three recommendations for how educators in California and beyond should conceptualize new leadership development opportunities to support math improvement — during the COVID crisis and beyond.
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Improving California’s Teacher Data System to Better Inform Decisions
This knowledge brief summarizes recent findings on improving the access to, and the use of, teacher workforce data in California.
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Facilitating English Learners’ Oral Language Development While Engaging in Distance Learning
In this archived webinar, explore the unique challenges and tangible tools and processes for supporting oral interactions and language development in distance learning environments designed to promote literacy development.
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Expanding California Districts’ Curriculum-Focused Professional Learning
This knowledge brief is part of a continuing series designed to inform California education leaders about new research findings on key state policy topics. This brief summarizes recent findings on effective teacher professional learning.
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Starting the School Year in a Blended/Distance Learning Setting – Building Relationships with Students and Families
In this archived webinar, learn how educators can build relationships with students and their families in blended and distance learning environments.
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How Are Suspensions Related to School Climate in California Middle Schools?
This report explores how recent changes in suspension rates at middle schools in California relate to changes in school climate. It uses the state’s data on out-of-school suspension rates and California Healthy Kids Survey data on school climate. Overall, the findings indicate that school climate improved most in schools that also experienced the greatest declines in out-of-school suspension rates. There was no evidence to support concerns that reducing suspension rates would also reduce school safety.
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From Acquisition to Development: Reconceptualizing Educators’ Work with English Learners
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Diane Larsen-Freeman, Professor Emerita from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Teaching Disciplinary Literacies in Hard Times that Just Got Harder
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Meg Gebhard, Professor of Teacher Education and School Improvement at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Reconceptualizing the Role of Critical Dialogue in the Education of English Learners
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Amanda Kibler, Associate Professor and Teaching Program Chair at Oregon State University.
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Policy and Equity in the Education of English Learners: The Struggle Continues
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Magaly Lavadenz, Professor at Loyola Marymount University.
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Loosening The Reins: Evidence and Considerations for Lifting Restrictions on Resources for Schools
This brief offers critical moves state policymakers can make to find the right balance between state control versus more local control during an economic recession.
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