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Helping Students Navigate the Path to College: What High Schools Can Do
This guide reviews the research literature on college access and makes five recommendations for how high schools and school districts, starting as early as 9th grade, can help students navigate their way to college.
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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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Culture and Assessment: Discovering What Students Really Know
How can we know what students know? The answer seems simple. We teach students new information, give them time to practice the concepts or skills, and assess their understanding with a quiz or test. We standardize the tests so that every student answers equally challenging questions. But what if the way we ask the questions unintentionally causes some students to fail? What if our assessments contain assumptions about language, culture, values, and experiences that these students don't share?
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Strategies for Trauma-Informed Distance Learning
To help educators use trauma-informed teaching practices in distance learning contexts, this brief offers strategies for recognizing and responding to students’ social and emotional needs while teaching remotely.
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Three Strategies for Investing One-Time Federal Relief Aid to Make a Lasting Difference: Sustainable Financing of Education Innovations
This brief provides an overview of three strategies for planning for sustainability, or long-term improvements in local and state education systems, when investing one-time federal funds.
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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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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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Reimagining Excellence: A Blueprint for Integrating Social and Emotional Well-Being and Academic Excellence in Schools
Just as constructing a well-designed school building requires a blueprint, so does designing an effective and equitable learning program that addresses the needs of the
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Adapting a Cardinal Rule of Finance: Five Strategies for Using One-Time Federal Funding on School Staffing
As school systems address unprecedented student needs resulting from the pandemic, this brief offers five strategies for using federal aid to invest in school staff.
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Breaking Down Barriers, Building Relationships: Delaware’s Collaborative Approach to Inventorying Whole-Child Efforts
This case story describes Delaware Department of Education (DOE)'s collaborative approach to inventorying whole-child efforts, using and adapting the guide to comprehensively review their statewide initiatives.
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Mindfulness in Education: An Approach to Cultivating Self-Awareness That Can Bolster Kids' Learning
This brief introduces the concept of mindfulness, provides examples of mindfulness strategies, and explains the potential, practical benefits for pre-K-12 students and educators.
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What Do We Know About the Effects of School-Based Law Enforcement on School Safety?
Developed by WestEd’s Justice & Prevention Research Center, this brief presents a definition of school-based law enforcement and summarizes some of the research about its effects on students and schools.
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California Statewide Early Math Initiative in Local Communities: Building Educator Math Capacity
This report summarizes the findings across two case studies conducted as part of WestEd’s evaluation of the California Statewide Early Math Initiative.
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Integrating Social and Emotional Learning throughout the School System: A Compendium of Resources for District Leaders
This compendium provides resources for district leaders to consider as they seek to implement evidence-based supports to ensure social and emotional learning (SEL) is fully integrated into educational experiences.
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Community-Care Strategies for Schools During the Coronavirus Crisis
This brief offers practical guidance for educators and school leaders designed to help them care for their school communities and maintain a sense of connectedness and well-being while coping with the stresses of social isolation, school closures, and changes to how services are provided.
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