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R&D Alert®, Vol. 19, No. 2
This edition of R&D Alert focuses on school finance, English learners, health education, and Academic Parent-Teacher Teams. It explores: Strategies for navigating fiscal challenges by
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Math in Common #15: Balancing Site Autonomy and District Priorities for Sustained Mathematics Progress
This report focuses on two districts facing significant internal and external forces that challenge coherent and sustained districtwide focus on mathematics improvement and explores how these forces impact educators at three different school sites in those districts.
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Improving English Learner Achievement by Building Systems of Support
Join this webinar to hear how Greater Albany Public Schools has aligned systems of support to improve teaching and learning for English learner students.
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Math in Common #16: Building Capacity for Improving California Mathematics Teaching and Learning
This brief summarizes WestEd’s learning from the Math in Common initiative on the successes and challenges that districts encountered while drawing on support.
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Developing Resources to Build Statewide Capacity and Cohesion for Mathematics and Science Standards Implementation
This report shares insights from the California Partnership for Math and Science Education, a statewide initiative designed to increase access to high-quality math and science teaching and learning.
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Illustrating Improvement: Noteworthy Practices to Inform California’s Math and Science Standards Implementation
This report shares insights from the California Partnership for Math and Science Education, a statewide initiative designed to increase access to high-quality math and science teaching and learning.
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Developing Math and Science Performance Tasks to Support Deep Student Learning
Join this webinar to hear how teams in Los Angeles County are collaborating to build teacher capacity to create and use performance assessment as part of the teaching and learning process.
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College Promise in California: Recommendations for Advancing Implementation, Impact, and Equity
This policy brief outlines the legislative landscape that helped fuel the growth of College Promise in California, reflects on issues that have arisen, and offers recommendations for maximizing equity and impact.
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Rural STEM Education: Promising Strategies from Several California Counties
This brief provides information on rural education concerns that are found across the state of California and presents examples of rural California counties' strategies for supporting math and science standards implementation.
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Adoption of, Enrollment in, and Teacher Workload for the Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum in California High Schools
School systems throughout the country are developing new courses and supports to prepare students to succeed in college. One example is the Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum.
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Administrators Matter in NGSS Implementation (2019): Updated Findings on How School and District Leaders Are Making Science Happen
The K-8 NGSS Early Implementers Initiative has consistently expanded the professional learning it provides for administrators, particularly for site administrators, who generally have the most contact with teachers.
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Language & Literacy Development in PreK-1st Grade: Words and More
December 12. This 90-minute webinar will address how teachers can build language- and vocabulary-rich classroom environments to support the language development of young students, with an emphasis on supporting students who are dual language learners.
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Language & Literacy Development in PreK-1st Grade: Words and More
December 9. This 90-minute webinar will address how teachers can build language- and vocabulary-rich classroom environments to support the language development of young students, with an emphasis on supporting students who are dual language learners.
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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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