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Cultivating and Applying Race Equity Mindsets Among K–12 Education Leaders: Key Questions for Reflection
Through a series of key questions, this paper supports K–12 education leaders to advance equity by further developing their own race equity mindsets and reflecting on the systems in which they operate.
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NCSI General Soup Podcast Episode 2: Measuring Educational Benefit
On Episode 2 of NCSI’s “General Soup” podcast, Sara Doutre and Susan Hayes delve into the topic of Educational Benefit Reviews and hear how three states – California, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania – are incorporating this valuable process into their state monitoring and support systems.
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NCSI General Soup Podcast Episode 1: Developing a Recipe for Systems Improvement in South Carolina
Episode 1 of the NCSI's General Soup podcast series is focused on how South Carolina is moving towards a more results-driven accountability and supports system.
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Schools On The Move Podcast Episode 1: Student Learning Communities - Building Student Voice and Agency for Students with Disabilities
In this podcast episode of "Schools on the Move," WestEd's Matt Navo and Dr. Annie Sharp of Fresno County Superintendent of Schools discuss student learning communities and how to build student voice and agency for students with disabilities.
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NCSI Schools On The Move Podcast Episode 2: Professional Learning Communities and Improving Outcomes for Students with Disabilities
In this podcast episode of "Schools on the Move," WestEd's Matt Navo and Dr. Annie Sharp of Fresno County Superintendent of Schools focus on the impact of professional learning communities and improving outcomes for students with disabilities.
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What Are Social and Emotional Learning and Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education — and What Do They Have to Do with Critical Race Theory? A Primer
Ensuring equity in education, whereby all student groups attain comparable positive outcomes, is an ongoing challenge for policymakers and practitioners. While there is no single
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Liberatory Design for Equity in California’s County Offices of Education
In this archived professional learning session, a panel of California County Office of Education leaders and WestEd staff discussed elements of the National Equity Project’s Liberatory Design approach and how leaders can use them to improve equity in classrooms, schools, and districts.
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K–2 Assessment Systems Enable Early Intervention to Foster Student Success
This paper focuses on building K–2 assessment systems that effectively help districts and schools support academic success for their youngest students.
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Kindergarten Readiness Assessments Help Identify Skill Gaps
In this paper, we review the status of states’ development of kindergarten readiness assessments (KRAs) and how states are using KRA data to profile skills at kindergarten entry, help track longitudinal progress, provide early warnings for needed intervention, and guide policy decisions.
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Scaffolding Writing With the “Teaching and Learning Cycle” for Students in Grades 6–12
This article explains a process through which teachers can scaffold students’ successful writing called the “Teaching and Learning Cycle" to best serve multilingual learners as well as English-proficient students.
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Following Through: 5 Strategies for Getting Federal Relief Aid to Students Who Need It Most
This Federal Aid Policy Brief offers five strategies that state and local education agency leaders can use to ensure federal aid is allocated equitably at the school level based on need — so that students who face the highest barriers to learning during the pandemic receive additional support.
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Budgeting for Educational Equity Podcast
Host Jason Willis welcomes education leaders and practitioners to discuss funding, educational improvements and advancing resource equity across all levels of California's public education system in this new podcast series presented by CASBO and WestEd.
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Spotlighting Whole-Person Success: A Guide for Using Statewide Data to Identify Exemplar Districts in SEL and School Climate
This guide aims to support state and regional leaders to identify districts or schools with notably positive outcomes in the areas of SEL and school climate, learn about those exemplars’ strategies and experiences, and share their learnings in order to scale up whole-person efforts and outcomes.
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English Learners in Charter Schools: A Learning Experience Focused on English Learner Instruction – Part 2
This multi-part learning experience provides charter school leaders with expert advice and ground-level guidance to help English Learners flourish academically through rigorous in-person instruction, supportive learning environments, and ongoing family engagement.
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Can Restorative Practices Bridge Racial Disparities in Schools? Evidence from the California Healthy Kids Survey
In this brief, we investigate whether increasing student exposure to restorative practices could help reduce racial discipline and achievement gaps, drawing from a large sample of secondary students who completed the California Healthy Kids Survey between the 2013/14 and 2018/19 school years.
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