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Environmental Instruction Catalyzes Standards-Based Science Teaching: How Environmental Literacy Aids Implementation of the NGSS
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 its synergy with the NGSS.
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Balancing Act: State and District Roles in School Improvement Under ESSA
This brief provides examples of how states and districts are working together to improve low-performing schools under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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Understanding the Experiences of LGBTQ Students in California
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 engagement, academic performance, and mental health.
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Special Education Systems Review: Aligning Resources for Improved Outcomes
This webinar will examine how Halifax County Public Schools is using the special education review process to help improve outcomes and streamline costs.
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The State Role in Supporting District-Charter Collaboration: Opportunities for Action
This guide, developed for state education agency leaders, other state-level policymakers, and their staff, addresses four areas of need in which district-charter collaboration might play a helpful role and highlights related opportunities for states to encourage and support collaboration.
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Corequisite Remediation in Mathematics: A Review of First-Year Implementation and Outcomes of Quantway and Statway
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.
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Collaborative Lesson Studies: Powerful Professional Learning for Implementing the Next Generation Science Standards
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 professional learning activity for teacher leaders.
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Math Pathways & Pitfalls Algebra Readiness: Lessons and Teaching Guide, Grades 7–8 (Beta Version)
This complimentary beta version of Math Pathways & Pitfalls Algebra Readiness mathematics intervention is intended to help students tackle stubborn pitfalls head-on and transform those pitfalls into pathways for learning key standards. It offers an entire year’s worth of lessons that focus on the critical areas of algebra readiness, using the same research-backed principles that informed the original series.
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The Writing Framework: Advancing Balanced Literacy Through Engagement and Empowerment
Join this webinar to hear how Cascade Union Elementary School District is using the Writing Framework approach to enhance student writing and discourse.
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Effective Instruction for English Learner Students with Disabilities
Learn how Georgia is building statewide teacher capacity to instruct English learner students with disabilities.
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Strengthening Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) to Focus on Student Learning
Learn how Brockport Central Schools in New York uses VITAL Collaboration to strengthen their PLCs and enhance teacher collaboration.
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Identifying Promising Practices in Charter Schools: A Framework for an Evidence-Based Approach
Previous efforts to identify promising practices in charter schools have often relied on self-reported practices from high-performing schools, with little assessment of local context, generalizability,
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Considering Turnaround for Low-Performing Charter Schools
Charter schools vary widely in terms of performance. Some serve their students well and meet all the requirements of their charter. But what happens when a charter school doesn’t perform? Read about what authorizers and charter school leaders should know when considering turnaround strategies. -
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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