Area » State:Culture of Renewal and Improvement

• Database of resources

  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.

• 

  Key points of translating national data into state and local practice: A teleseminar

  1/1/06 - Blackorby, J.

  Summation of NDPC-SD teleseminar on using national and state data to improve local practices.

• National resource map

  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.

• 

  Promoting ELL parental involvement: Challenges in contested times

  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...

• 

  Summary of state strategies for districts identified for improvement under NCLB

  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.

• 

  The Landscape: A statewide survey for providers of professional development in early childhood.

  1/1/09 - Buysse, V. , Hollingsworth, H., West, T.

  This survey is designed to gather information that will produce a descriptive landscape of professional development in early childhood in a state across multiple sectors.

• 

  Using data to address equity issues in special education

  1/1/08 - Ashley C. Gibb, Russell Skiba

  The increased use of data, from collection, to organization, to analysis, can seem daunting. Yet this does not have to be the case. Conventions for approaching disproportionality data have been established making the analysis and interpretation of disproportionality data more straightforward. This brief will outline those conventions and provide some tools to determine the most effective ways of collecting, organizing, and presenting disproportionality data. These tools, and the experience...