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Area: State:Inclusive Leadership for Equity and Accountability
- 1/1/07 - National Secondary Transition Technical Asssistance Center,
The Checklist provides a set of questions that states can use to evaluate the quality of their APR response to Indicator 13. - 1/1/09 - Melissa Raspa, Kathleen Hebbeler, Don Bailey
The Family Outcomes Survey (FOS) provides a way for state and local programs serving young children to assess the extent to which families have achieved a variety of outcomes. This document provides suggestions on how to analyze the data from the survey; the analyses can then be used to plan for program improvement. The document is written for state agency staff, but many of the suggested analyses could be carried out at the local level as well. - 1/1/10 - Marisa Bueno, Linda Darting-Hammond, Danielle Gonzales
"Across the nation, states are investing substantial dollars in publicly funded, voluntary pre-kindergarten programs. These investments and initiatives come in response to research on brain development,1 accountability pressures to improve student achievement in elementary and secondary schools and strong evidence that high-quality pre-k can yield long-term benefits for children and society. The ultimate value of those investments, however, depends not only on the legislation that... - 1/1/09 - Elizabeth Kozleksi, Amanda Sullivan, Kara Sujansky
This report provides a snapshot of Connecticut’s efforts to provide for the education of students identified as having disabilities and students identified as CLD.2 We use NCCRESt’s conceptual framework for culturally responsive educational systems, which focuses on the connections between people, policies, and practices, to provide a schema for analyzing the relationships between federal, state, LEA, and school policies. - 1/1/09 - Elizabeth Kozleski, Amanda Sullivan, Equity Alliance at ASU
This State Profile provides a snapshot of North Carolina's efforts to address the disproportionate representation of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in special education. - 1/1/10 - Elizabeth Kozleski, Amanda Sullivan, Miranda Kucera, Equity Alliance at ASU
This State Profile provides a snapshot of Ohio's efforts to address the disproportionate representation of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in special education. - 1/1/08 - Elizabeth Kozleski, Amanda Sullivan, Federico Waitoller, Equity Alliance at ASU
This State Profile provides a snapshot of Tennessee's efforts to address the disproportionate representation of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in special education. - 1/1/08 - Elizabeth Kozleski, Amanda Sullivan, Federico Waitoller, Equity Alliance at ASU
This State Profile provides a snapshot of Wisconsin's efforts to address the disproportionate representation of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in special education. - 1/1/10 - Education Law Center,
"Under federal law, states are required to ensure that homeless children have equal access to the same free, appropriate public education, including a public preschool education, as provided to other children and youths. This policy brief provides an overview of the law and its limitations and describes policies that can help increase the number of homeless children included in pre-k programs. It is intended to serve as a resource for state policy makers and advocates seeking to maximize... - 1/1/03 - Caroline and Sigmund Schott Foundation, The Schott Center for Public and Early Education
"This report reflects our recent efforts to understand how to ensure that the next generation of girls and boys enjoy respectful schools and classrooms in which they can grow and succeed. We want all children to have the benefits of an education that provides them with a full range of life options and helps them become decisionmakers and leaders. We hope this publication will serve as a useful discussion tool for organizations, foundations, and individuals interested in creating more... - National Secondary Transition Technical Asssistance Center,
While age-appropriate transition assessment is not defined in the law, there are some clues as to the intent within the NSTTAC Indicator 13 FAQ (www.nsttac.org) that was approved by Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education. - 1/1/08 - Goe, E., Bell, C., Little, O.
This research synthesis examines how teacher effectiveness is currently measured and provides practical guidance for how best to evaluate teacher effectiveness. It evaluates the research on teacher effectiveness and the different instruments used to measure it. In addition, it defines the components and indicators that characterize effective teachers, extending this definition beyond teachers' contribution to student achievement gains to include how teachers impact classrooms, schools, and... - 1/1/09 - Barbara J. Smith
"The purpose of this Collaborative State Planning Tool Kit is to pull together in one place several of the resources, tools, samples, and state product examples already on the CSEFEL state web page (http://www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel/states.html) to help states in state-wide Pyramid Model planning. This tool kit is comprised of background resources, templates and samples, and examples from teams that are engaged in planning and sustaining the Pyramid Model in their states." - 1/1/07 - Smith, S.C., & Bost, L.W.
The brief contains an overview of the requirement to collect post-school outcome data and challenges experienced by states in collecting these data. Recommendations and strategies that states can use to secure sufficient response rates, especially from youth who drop out of school, are provided. - 1/1/07 - Elizabeth Kozleksi, Shelley Zion, Tom Hidalgo
The purpose of this study was to more fully understand what strategies and interventions were successful for selected districts in the state. This study was undertaken as a collaborative venture with CSDE, the National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt), and Learning Innovations @ WestEd/NERRC. - 5/19/09 - Education Commission of the States,
The goal of state intervention in a school or district designated as low-performing is not to punish. It is to help figure out how to improve student learning. The challenge, particularly for a chief state school officer or state board of education, is how best to leverage assistance to schools that have varying degrees of need. Most state legislatures have provided the state board the authority to act. How to proceed with limited funding and staffing is the truly difficult question. This...
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