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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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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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Designing a Comprehensive Assessment System
What does it take to create a balanced and aligned comprehensive assessment system? This paper identifies strategies for states, districts, and schools.
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Quality Education for ELLs/ MLLs: Why We Need It and How We Can Achieve It
This brief provides a rationale for educators to rethink and reinvent quality education for English language and multilingual learners.
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Doing What Works: Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Effective Writers
This digital portfolio contains everything administrators and teacher educators need to conduct two three-and-a-half-hour professional development sessions on how to teach elementary school students to be effective writers.
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School Climate Improvement Toolkit
This resource helps schools, districts, and other education agencies develop a detailed and focused plan for carrying out and monitoring school climate improvement efforts.
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Getting Better at Getting More Equitable: Addressing Racial Inequities in Education Using Equity-Driven Continuous Improvement
This resource is intended for educators and education leaders who are interested in leveraging equity-driven continuous improvement to address racial inequities, racism, and other forms of systemic oppression.
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Restorative Justice in U.S. Schools: An Updated Research Review
This updated review documents the current breadth of evidence on restorative justice, provides a more comprehensive picture of how restorative practices are implemented in schools, and lays the groundwork for future research, implementation, and policy.
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Serving the Whole Person: An Alignment and Coherence Guide for Local Education Agencies
This guide helps local education agency (LEA) leaders achieve greater alignment and coherence in their whole-person initiatives through an adaptable and guided process.
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California Special Education Funding System Study: A Descriptive Analysis of Special Education Funding in California (Executive Summary)
This Executive Summary outlines the current special education funding system identified in the report, California Special Education Funding System Study: A Descriptive Analysis of Special Education Funding in California.
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School Funding: From Equity to Adequacy
"How much is enough to educate a child?...Adequacy formulas expose the gap between what schools now receive and what they may really need, particularly those schools facing the costs of educating large numbers of students with special needs." —from the WestEd Policy Brief
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De-Mystifying Complex Texts: What are "Complex" Texts and How Can We Ensure ELLs/MLLs Can Access Them?
Learn how to make complex text more accessible to English language and multilingual learners.
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Preparing Students for Life Beyond the Classroom: Spotlighting Success in North Dakota: The benefits of social emotional learning (SEL) in two rural school districts
Using a mixed-method research approach, this case study examines outcomes in two rural North Dakota districts, which have successfully implemented strategies to scale whole-person initiatives.
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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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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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