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Moving Toward Instructional Coherence: How Four Popular Student-Centered Approaches Deepen Identity, Agency, Equity, and Community
This paper helps educators consider ways to strengthen their practices in simultaneously implementing formative assessment, deeper learning, culturally responsive and sustaining education, and personalized learning.
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Exploring the Powerful Role of Play in Early Education – Part 2: Play at the Center of the Curriculum
This archived webinar explores how teachers and providers can place play at the center of early childhood curriculum. The panelists describe how to design play spaces as environments for learning, invite children’s playful participation during daily routines, and support children’s play with others, especially when conflicts arise.
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Evaluation of the Kansas City Scholars Program: Year 5 Report
WestEd evaluates the Kansas City Scholars Program in its fifth year of operation. This report explores the characteristics of students participating in the KC Scholars program and to what extent that applicant pools and awardee cohorts have changed over time.
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Expanding the Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum: An Evaluation of an Investing in Innovation Validation Grant
This report presents the findings from an independent evaluation conducted by WestEd on the Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC). Funded by an Investing in
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Assessing Community Needs: Strategies for Charter Schools and Authorizers
As part of a body of work that focuses on the role of community needs and interests in charter authorizing, this brief provides guidance to
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Leading Voices Podcast Series Episode 1: Adult Well-Being and Creating a Culture of Care
In this episode, Dr. Christina Pate, Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety, and host Danny Torres share a rich discussion about the importance of educator self-care for improved well-being and better student outcomes.
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Exploring the Powerful Role of Play in Early Education – Part 1: Play Matters
In this archived webinar, panelists discuss why play is important to children’s learning and what each of us can do to re-center play as the primary context for early learning.
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Instructional Equity and Respect for Diversity in Schools: Staff Perceptions Vary by Race/Ethnicity and by Role
This brief summarizes secondary staff responses to the California School Staff Survey in 2017/18 and 2018/19 in relation to their perceptions of instructional equity and respect for diversity in their schools.
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Discussion Builders Posters Set: Grades K-1, 2-3, and 4-8 (Spanish Version)
When we introduced these posters in professional development, teachers begged us to publish them, and so we have. Use them to build students’ language and thinking in any subject area. Powerful scaffolding for English language learners.
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What a Systematic Review of 32 Evaluations Says About the Impact of School-Based Law Enforcement
The WestEd Justice and Prevention Research Center, in collaboration with Professor Ben Fisher of Florida State University, conducted a systematic review of research on the effects of school policing on safety, perceptions, and academic outcomes.
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Principal Retention Patterns in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah
This REL West study of principal retention rates aims to help leaders in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah better understand principal retention patterns in their state and enable statewide leadership support initiatives to identify areas where support can be most effective.
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Improving Coordination and Access to Comprehensive School-Based Mental Health Services in California
This report provides data to help leaders make informed decisions about how resources should be allocated and how technical assistance should be designed to effectively support mental health services for students.
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What California Teachers Say About Their Instructional Materials For English Learner Students: New Data and Insights
This CALE knowledge brief summarizes California findings from a nationwide survey on teachers’ perceptions of their instructional materials for English learner students. It includes considerations for improvements in instructional materials and developing policies and professional learning systems.
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Resourcing Supports for Young Multilingual Learners with Suspected Disabilities in California: Learning Collaborative Recommendations
In order to help educators best support young multilingual learners, WestEd launched a short-term, cross-sector Learning Collaborative to improve collaboration, build knowledge capacity, and increase awareness of best practices related to integrated ELD instruction. This report details lessons learned and offers recommendations for policymakers and education leaders.
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Supporting California’s Children Through a Whole Child Approach: A Field Guide for Creating Integrated, School-Based Systems of Care
This report offers guidance for funding and implementing one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving systems of care in California.
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