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The State’s Role in Addressing Teacher Shortages Today to Sustain the Profession in the Future
This brief helps state education agencies address localized teacher shortages by sharing information about a state’s role, common challenges contributing to teacher shortages, and examples of how states across the country are tackling these challenges.
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Leading Voices Podcast Series Episode 9: Helping State Agencies Build and Modernize Integrated Data Systems—A Conversation With Baron Rodriguez and Sean Cottrell
Host Danny Torres talks with Baron Rodriguez and Sean Cottrell of WestEd’s Data Integration Support Center (DISC) about the Center’s services and why integrating data systems helps state leaders and policymakers address the needs of the whole person and community.
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Equity in Measuring School Quality: REMIQS Framework and State Accountability System
In this archived webinar co-hosted by WestEd and the KnowledgeWorks Foundation, experts discuss the Robust and Equitable Measures to Inspire Quality Schools (REMIQS) framework, report research findings, and share strategies for revising state accountability systems to produce positive outcomes for resilient and historically marginalized students.
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ESSA Resource Allocation Review Discussion Series, Session 3
In this third of three archived webinars hosted by the Region 15 and 9 Comprehensive Centers, state education leaders explore how the ESSA resource allocation review process can inform the supports that districts and schools need to address resource inequities and how to scale and sustain the process.
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ESSA Resource Allocation Review Discussion Series, Session 2
In this second of three archived webinars hosted by the Region 15 and 9 Comprehensive Centers, state education leaders share how their ESSA resource allocation review process fits into their comprehensive school improvement planning process and the overall system of support.
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ESSA Resource Allocation Review Discussion Series, Session 1
In this first of three archived webinars hosted by the Region 15 and 9 Comprehensive Centers, state education leaders share how their states are piloting and implementing ESSA resource allocation reviews.
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EdTech Partnerships: Key Findings 2022–23 Report
This report highlights the current partnerships that EdTech at WestEd has established and the research findings and impacts from school and classroom evaluation studies for education technologies in math, science, music, and multilingual learning.
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Pre-Referral Processes in California State Preschool Programs: How Practitioners Decide to Refer Multilingual Children for Special Education Evaluation
This report presents findings from a study on pre-referral processes for children in California State Preschool Programs prior to a special education evaluation. The report also offers recommendations to promote pre-referral processes that are responsive to language development for multilingual children.
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Budgeting for Educational Equity Podcast S2E5: A New Era of School Business in California: Innovative Thinking About Where We’re Headed—with CASBO CEO Tatia Davenport
Tatia Davenport, CEO of the California Association of School Business Officials (CASBO), discusses the future of school business in California and shares insights from the first comprehensive survey of California school business executives in nearly 25 years.
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Examining the Long-Term Effects of the ASSISTments Intervention on Middle School Mathematics
A brief about WestEd’s findings on ASSISTments, a research-based online platform for teachers and students. The study examined the long-term impacts of the platform on student math outcomes and assessed whether the impacts varied across diverse student populations.
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Research and Evaluation on School Safety: Perceptions of State School Safety Center Supports and Services
This report highlights the findings from an evaluation of State School Safety Centers by the Justice and Prevention Research Center. It examines the structure, services, and perceptions of State School Safety Centers to identify promising practices and models.
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Research-Based Strategies for Addressing Disproportionality in Special Education
This brief from the Western Educational Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC) proposes that district leaders begin to address disproportionality in special education by adopting culturally responsive and sustaining policies and practices to improve the special education identification process.
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A First Look at Early Literacy Performance in Massachusetts: Results of Initial Analysis Based on State Grantee Literacy Screening Assessments
This report provides the first-ever large-scale information about early literacy performance and progress of students in grades K–3 in Massachusetts.
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Comparing Early Literacy Screening Assessment Benchmarks in Massachusetts
This brief describes the lack of a common definition of “at risk” of reading difficulty in early literacy screening assessments used by schools and school districts as reported in A First Look at Early Literacy Performance in Massachusetts. It also provides results of a study that links screener benchmark scores to the Massachusetts state assessment, allowing comparison of screening benchmarks.
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Opportunity Gaps: Findings From Initial Analysis of Student Performance in Early Literacy in Massachusetts
Drawing from data collected and analyzed in the report A First Look at Early Literacy Performance in Massachusetts, this brief provides information about student literacy performance of students with different learning environments and background characteristics, including economically disadvantaged students, English learner students, students receiving special education services, Black, and Hispanic students.
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