Free Resources
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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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Essential Characteristics of Math Curriculum Materials That Advance Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education
This reference guide identifies five research- and evidence-based essential characteristics of math curriculum materials that advance culturally responsive and sustaining education. It offers educators, district leaders, and state education agencies resources to support the implementation of CRSE in math.
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Designing Modern P20W Data Systems
This website provides tools and resources for managers, agency leads, and policymakers to help create a customized roadmap to a modern longitudinal data system.
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Advancing and Sustaining Student and Staff Well-Being Initiatives: A Resource Guide for States
This resource provides state leaders with an overview of five actions necessary to establish lasting, effective student and staff well-being initiatives.
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Equitable & Inclusive Hiring Practices: A Reference Guide of Strategies to Grow & Diversify the Educator Workforce
This reference guide, developed by the Rhode Island Department of Education and the Region 2 Comprehensive Center, offers recommendations for improved hiring practices that will help local education agencies attract, recruit, and retain a highly skilled and diverse workforce that reflects Rhode Island’s students.
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Quick Start Guide for Districts to Improve Attendance
A quick-to-read infographic from the Western Educational Equity Assistance Center offering six actionable steps on how districts can improve student attendance and reduce the chronic absenteeism that jeopardizes student academic success.
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Designing California's Cradle-to-Career Data System
This planning website details the comprehensive and inclusive 18-month planning process for California’s Cradle-to-Career System, a statewide data system that provides data-informed tools to help students reach their college and career goals and deliver information on education and workforce outcomes.
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"Put your money on the table": Interagency Coordination to Address the Crisis in Student Mental and Behavioral Health
This report shows the key role county offices of education (COEs) play in leading or coordinating an integrated system of care in collaboration with child-serving agencies to provide a holistic and accessible set of mental and behavioral services to students and families.
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Technology-Based Support Shows Promising Long-Term Impact on Math Learning: Initial Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial in Middle Schools
This study measured the possible long-term impact of ASSISTments on student learning.
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Leading Voices Podcast Series Episode 5: How Students Can Help Shape School Climate Policy and Practice—A Conversation with Rebeca Cerna and Julian Berkowitz-Sklar
In this episode, Danny Torres (host) and Grace Westermann (co-host), talk with Rebeca Cerna, Director for the California Center for School Climate (CCSC), and special guest, Julian Berkowitz-Sklar, a graduating senior at Saratoga High School in California and member of the Center's Youth Advisory Team.
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A Research Agenda for Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education in Mathematics: Essential Directions, Methodological Approaches, and Guiding Principles
This report offers practical approaches and guiding principles for culturally responsive and sustaining education (CRSE) research that can promote and support the implementation of CRSE in mathematics.
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The Structure, Services, and Products of State School Safety Centers
This brief is the second in a series highlighting the comprehensive findings derived from WestEd’s Justice Prevention and Research Center’s evaluation of SSSCs. The brief provides more information on the general landscape of SSSCs; how they operate; and the services they provide, including the types of activities, content areas, and audiences served.
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Learning From the Experiences of Texas Schools Implementing Behavioral Threat Assessment Programs
This article presents key findings from a study funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), which examined the implementation of behavioral threat assessment in high schools throughout Texas.
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Adult Learner Transitions to Postsecondary Education: Adult School and Community College Collaborations
This brief uncovers shared practices among providers who transition many students into postsecondary and CTE pathways. It also provides implementation strategies for systems and institutions to promote collaboration.
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