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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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Are Metal Detectors Effective at Making Schools Safer?
With the tragedies of school violence igniting calls for increased safety and security, one popular proposal is to use metal detectors in schools. This research brief summarizes what is known about metal detectors in schools and in other settings.
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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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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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Including Relationship-Based Care Practices in Infant-Toddler Care: Implications for Practice and Policy
This brief describes the practices and provides the research to support relationship-based infant and toddler care.
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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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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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Assessing and Improving Special Education: A Program Review Tool for Schools and Districts Engaged in Rapid School Improvement
This tool helps districts and school leaders begin and engage in conversations about, and reviewing and improving the quality of, their special education programs.
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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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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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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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Creating New Futures for Newcomers: Lessons from Five Schools that Serve K–12 Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylees
This report, developed through a partnership between MAEC and WestEd, highlights schools that are using promising and effective strategies for supporting immigrant and refugee students in K–12 classrooms.
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