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In a special panel discussion, education practitioners and experts will showcase effective talent retention strategies linked to rapid school improvement.
Join us for a webinar series designed to showcase best practices, tools, and resources that help you drive improvement in your state, district, and school.
In this post, we introduce the work of three language and literacy initiatives – Reading Apprenticeship, Quality Teaching for English Learners, and Leading with Learning, and offer a variety of tools and resources to inform your practice.
Congratulations to WestEd’s Cindy Litman and Cynthia Greenleaf, whose article “Argumentation Tasks in Secondary English Language Arts, History, and Science: Variations in Instructional Focus and Inquiry Space” received the Reading Research Quarterly Award as one of the journal's top downloaded recent papers.
In California, the leadership of the San Diego and Imperial Counties Community Colleges Association has come together to work on a common initiative, serving as a model for large-scale institutional reform.
This report highlights "bright spots," schools that are using promising and effective strategies for supporting newcomer students in K–12 classrooms.
Learn how high school students in California schools perceive school-based law enforcement and police in their communities.
This new research brief summarizes what’s known about metal detectors in schools and in other settings, including prevalence, effectiveness, cost, and the potential impact on students and learning environments.
This evaluation report explains how the NGSS Early Implementers Initiative prepared teachers for leadership in NGSS teaching, including how it created a culture of collaboration that produced change agents for science education and NGSS implementation.
Find out how relationship-building – teacher to student, student to student, teacher to teacher, and administrator to teacher – guides improvement at the Chula Vista Elementary School District.
