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Building and Using Authentic Performance Tasks for Science and Math
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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Understanding the Experiences of LGBTQ Students in California
This report describes the school experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning or queer students. It draws on two years of California Healthy Kids Survey data from approximately 800,000 secondary school students and their perceptions of school supports, school safety, school engagement, academic performance, and mental health.
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Special Education Systems Review: Aligning Resources for Improved Outcomes
This webinar will examine how Halifax County Public Schools is using the special education review process to help improve outcomes and streamline costs.
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The State Role in Supporting District-Charter Collaboration: Opportunities for Action
This guide, developed for state education agency leaders, other state-level policymakers, and their staff, addresses four areas of need in which district-charter collaboration might play a helpful role and highlights related opportunities for states to encourage and support collaboration.
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Corequisite Remediation in Mathematics: A Review of First-Year Implementation and Outcomes of Quantway and Statway
This report illustrates how Carnegie Math Pathways corequisite courses, Quantway College with Corequisite and Statway College with Corequisite, provide an effective alternative to traditional remediation.
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Collaborative Lesson Studies: Powerful Professional Learning for Implementing the Next Generation Science Standards
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. This report explores how Teaching Learning Collaboratives (or lesson studies) served as the cornerstone professional learning activity for teacher leaders.
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From the Brink of Closure: Key Factors in One Charter School's Successful Turnaround
Written intentionally for school leaders, board members, and charter school authorizers, this report and accompanying video share Perry Street Preparatory Public Charter School's story of comprehensive improvement and describes the necessary conditions for turnaround success.
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