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Area: State:Culture of Renewal and Improvement
- 1/1/09 - Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education,
This is a report based on a plan presented by the Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education that details four strategies to become a top educational performer in the Southeast. The four strategies include: 1) high standards 2) cultivating strong leaders 3) ensuring excellent teachers and 4) utilizing data to drive improvement in student learning. - Center on Innovation and Improvement,
Database of research, resources, support, and tools in the following topic areas: supplemental educational services, school and district improvement, restructuring, charter schools, state systems of support. - 1/1/09 - Anne Smith, Elizabeth B. Kozleski
This presentation address issues of LRE and state progress as well as improving equity in education and rethinking special education. - 1/1/09 - Kasprzak, C., D’Agord, C., Mullins, J., Mueller, P.
"This document is intended to assist State Education Agency (SEA) and Lead Agency (LA) staff and technical assistance providers in designing a meaningful evaluation for the State Performance Plan (SPP)/Annual Performance Report (APR) improvement activities. It provides 1) information about the relevance of evaluation in the context of improvement planning and strategic systems thinking; 2) guidance on selecting an appropriate design for evaluating different types of improvement activities... - 1/1/09 - The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement,
List of resources and links to help guide school improvement efforts. - 1/1/09 - Candice Bocala, Daniel Mello, Kirstin Reedy, Natalie Lacireno-Paquet
"The report documents the results of a search of state education agency web sites in the nine Northeast and Islands Region jurisdictions for publicly available information related to RTI (response to intervention). It finds that seven jurisdictions have developed state documents on RTI that address core features of RTI identified by the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities: high quality classroom instruction, research-based instruction, classroom performance, universal... - 1/1/08 - Georgia Department of Education,
"The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) administers a statewide graduation coach program to identify and provide early intervention services to students at risk of dropping out of school. The program was initiated in the 2006-2007 school year and supported the placement of a graduation coach in Georgia public high schools. The program was subsequently expanded in 2007-2008 to include graduation coaches in middle schools. This program supports GaDOE Strategic Goal One by providing school... - 1/1/09 - Caitlin Scott
"This report synthesizes five years of CEP's research on state and local efforts to improve persistently low-performing schools in accordance with the No Child Left Behind Act. CEP conducted this research in six states -- California, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, New York, and Ohio -- and in 23 districts and 48 schools within those states. The report also makes recommendations for improving federal assistance in this area." - 1/1/06 - Blackorby, J.
Summation of NDPC-SD teleseminar on using national and state data to improve local practices. - 1/1/09 - Center for American Progress, , U.S. Chamber of Commerce, , Frederick M. Hess
"The findings and recommendations detailed in the following section cover everything from the need for more thoughtful use of technology to the overarching importance of giving educators flexibility in meeting shared student-achievement goals. In particular, we believe that reform requires a nondoctrinaire emphasis on overhauling the status quo and replacing it, not with some imagined one best system, but with a new performance-oriented culture that may take many forms. In the end, we think... - National Secondary Transition Technical Asssistance Center,
This product offers information on state-identified best practices in secondary transition, including professional development resources, secondary transition resources for various audiences, and other information. The product also includes links to states’ Summary of Performance forms, state transition conference dates, and the secondary transition contact person from the state’s department of education. - Philadelphia Education Fund, , John Hopkins University,
"On-Track to Graduation: The Early Warning Indicators Project (EWIP) began as a two-phase project focused on completing research to identify how early and with which factors we could identify potential dropouts and moving these practices into school-based practice. Now in its third year, the project has become a national demonstration site of Diplomas Now, a multi-tiered dropout prevention collaboration in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, City Year, and Communities in Schools." - 1/1/08 - Arias, Beatriz, Morillo-Campbell, M.
This policy brief analyzes factors related to the implementation of effective parental involvement with English Language Learners (ELLs). It analyzes characteristics of the ELL student and parent population; barriers to ELL family engagement with schools; and characteristics of traditional and non-traditional parental involvement models. Diversity in ELL parents and their communities speaks to the need for both traditional and non-traditional models for ELL parental involvement. With a... - 1/1/09 - Brian Pusser, John Levin
"Contemporary community colleges are on the brink of crisis, facing both praise and criticism on so many dimensions that it is difficult to make an overall assessment of their legitimacy. Each of the primary missions of community colleges faces a broad spectrum of challenges, made more complex by misapprehensions about the various roles of community colleges, lack of clear and consistent data on outcomes, and the relative weakness of the institutions and their students in state and federal... - 1/1/09 - Bruce Vandal
"The Education Commission of the States (ECS), with support from the KnowledgeWorks Foundation (Cincinnati, Ohio), dedicated 2009 to engaging state education, business and workforce development leaders in the creation of a framework for how states can more effectively align education, economic development and workforce development policy. ECS devoted meetings of its Steering Committee and its National Forum on Education Policy in 2009 to the topic. In addition, ECS engaged other leaders... - 1/1/06 - California Comprehensive Center,
The American Institutes for Research (AIR), as a partner in the California Comprehensive Center at WestEd, conducted interviews with 16 selected state education agencies (SEA) to determine what supports and interventions states have developed for districts identified for improvement under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). This brief paper summarizes the different approaches that the states have taken to support districts in improvement.
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