Free Resources
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Family Guide to Supporting Young People’s Mental Health and Well-Being: Information, Tips, and Resources
This easy-to-use guide offers parents and other adult caregivers targeted strategies, tools, and resources to help them support the well-being and mental health of school-aged children by encouraging open communication and accessing professional supports.
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Accountability for Postsecondary Readiness: A 50-State Analysis
This brief explains how states define and measure postsecondary readiness, an important step toward improving how such measures function within state accountability systems.
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Reframing and Understanding Staff Resistance to Advance Positive School Climates
This guide, developed by the California Center for School Climate, examines root causes of staff resistance to school climate initiatives and offers actionable strategies for leaders to mitigate its effects by productively reframing their approach.
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Using Quantitative Data to Identify and Address Inequities: An Introduction for Practitioners
This brief demonstrates how educational systems leaders can use disaggregated quantitative data to identify and address the root causes of systemic inequities experienced by different groups of students.
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Graduation Requirements and Measures: A Review of Performance Assessment Implementation in Select States for the New York State Education Department
This report, produced by the R2CC in consultation with NYSED, presents seven deep-dive case studies on state-level implementation of performance-based assessments. The findings highlight shared themes that emerged about implementation processes, successes, areas for improvement, and lessons learned.
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Budgeting for Educational Equity Podcast S2E3, Part 2: Big Lifts and Launches: Resource Equity and Other Key Considerations for Implementing Major New Initiatives Like UPK and UTK—A Local District Perspective
Maria Ceballos, Executive Director of the Early Learning Department at Fresno Unified School District, offers hands-on, practical advice from a local school district perspective about expanding early learning access to all children and families.
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Budgeting for Educational Equity Podcast S2E3, Part 1: Big Lifts and Launches: Resource Equity and Other Key Considerations for Implementing Major New Initiatives Like UPK and UTK—A Statewide Perspective
Host Jason Willis chats with Sarah Neville-Morgan, Deputy Superintendent at the California Department of Education, about the statewide implementation of Universal Transitional Kindergarten, the goal to implement Universal Prekindergarten, and the challenges and strategies of implementing major new initiatives.
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Centering Equity in Data-Based Decision-Making: Considerations and Recommendations for Leadership Teams
This guide offers key concepts and dialogue guides to help school, district, and state education leadership teams redesign and transform systems for equitable health and learning through equity-centered, data-based decision-making processes.
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Teacher Compensation Reform Decision Guide
This guide helps state and district leaders plan and collaborate with interested parties to elevate teacher compensation by facilitating a structured conversation about vision, community engagement, data, effective processes, and finance concerns.
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Increasing American Indian and Alaska Native High School Graduation Rates: Strategies and Recommendations for Local Education Agency Leaders in the Western States
This brief highlights the contributing factors to low American Indian and Alaska Native student graduation rates.
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Survey Development for Assessing Student Computing Career Intentions: Technical Report
This technical report is a companion to a 2023 paper on developing a brief, culturally sensitive computing career intentions survey. This report contains additional details about the field testing of the survey, including reliability and differential item functioning (DIF) tests.
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Translating Opportunity: Improving Postsecondary Pathways for Multilingual Learners of English
This data- and research-backed report increases understanding of postsecondary pathways for Multilingual Learners of English and addresses the challenges they encounter by investigating the policies, program structures, and practices that impact their postsecondary experiences.
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Facilitating Improvement in Teacher Practice: Professional Learning Modules
This resource collection is designed for facilitators of professional learning, such as district coaches, principals, site-based coaches, and teacher leaders. The modules aim to prepare these facilitators to support teachers in improving Tier 1 instruction. Specifically, facilitators will learn to implement continuous improvement processes, guided by goals and data, and strengthen teacher collaboration.
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Video in the Middle: Flexible and Accessible Mathematics Professional Development
Video in the Middle (VIM) provides free, flexible, standards-aligned, online Professional development experiences based on the latest research in mathematics education. VIM two-hour video-based modules can be combined in a variety of ways by school district mathematics PD leaders, teacher educators, or individual teachers.
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Designing Safe and Supportive Physical Classroom Environments: A Checklist
This brief, developed by the California Center for School Climate at WestEd, provides school-based educators and staff research-backed recommendations and an easy-to-use tool to create well-maintained, high-quality, and safe physical classroom environments that support student success.
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