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California Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (CPSEL) Updated Tri-Fold Version
This version of the California Professional Standards for Education Leaders is a quick reference most helpful when used with the updated Moving Leadership Standards Into Everyday Work: Descriptions of Practice.
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Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: A Systems Framework
This framework assists educators in rapid school and district improvement efforts through turnaround leadership, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shift.
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Getting Better at Getting More Equitable: Opportunities and Barriers for Using Continuous Improvement to Advance Educational Equity
In this study, WestEd researchers examine how education leaders think about and use continuous improvement to address equity issues.
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Strategies to Identify and Support English Learners With Learning Disabilities
This REL West brief presents a summary of research and practice and compares 15 state guidance manuals and other resources for policymakers, administrators, and practitioners.
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Scaffolding Writing Through the "Teaching and Learning Cycle"
Help your students become effective writers through scaffolding and the Teaching and Learning Cycle.
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Focusing Formative Assessment on the Needs of English Language Learners
How can formative assessment enhance the teaching and learning of English language learner (ELL) students? What, if anything, from our experience with summative assessment of ELL students can inform effective formative assessment practices? And finally, what are the opportunities and challenges inherent in integrating formative assessment into instruction for ELL students in this era of Common Core and other next generation standards? Find out in this paper.
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Understanding Formative Assessment: Insights from Learning Theory and Measurement Theory
Formative assessment can yield real-time information about if and how students are learning—and what might be impeding their progress. Insights gained from ongoing assessment can help teachers shape instruction and guide student efforts.
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Long-Term English Learners: Spotlight on an Overlooked Population
This research brief highlights long-term English learner student characteristics, points to factors that impede their academic literacy development, and identifies promising practices that may improve their academic outcomes.
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Bridging Cultures in Our Schools: New Approaches That Work: Knowledge Brief
As classrooms around the United States continue to become more and more culturally and linguistically diverse, educators need to understand the deep value orientations underlying
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Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: Indicators of Effective Practice
This document is designed to help school, district, and state teams identify with greater certainty whether a relevant practice from the four domains is standard and routinely operational in their part of the education system or whether more work is needed.
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What High Schools Can Do to Better Prepare Students for College
How can high schools help more of their students make it to college and be better prepared to do college-level work? Helping Students Navigate the Path to College: What High Schools Can Do, a practice guide from the U.S. Department of Education's What Works Clearinghouse, offers five straightforward recommendations.
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Zone of Proximal Development: An Affirmative Perspective in Teaching ELLs
Learn how collaboration impacts the academic development of English language and multilingual learners.
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The Invisible Achievement Gap: Education Outcomes of Students in Foster Care in California's Public Schools
This first-of-its-kind report details a previously invisible achievement gap between children in foster care and other students, including students with low-socioeconomic status, English language learners, and students with disabilities.
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California's Best Practices for Young Dual Language Learners: Research Papers
This publication is designed to provide early childhood educators with the most current research on the development of young dual language learners.
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Developmental and Behavioral Screening Guide for Early Care and Education Providers
If developmental concerns are caught early on, early care and education providers can help ensure young children receive the support and services they need.
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