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    A Cultural, Linguistic, and Ecological Framework for Response to Intervention with English Language Learners

    1/1/08 - Julie Esparza Brown, Jennifer Doolittle, Equity Alliance at ASU

    Looking through the lens of culturally responsive practice, we consider how best to implement Response to Intervention (RTI) in a way that will provide equitable educational opportunity for students who are English Language Learners (ELLs).

  • Culturally Responsive Literacy

    1/1/08 - National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems,

    Culturally responsive literacy models examine not only the methods of teaching students to engage with and learn from multiple texts, but also consider the many purposes for which individuals become literate. This module examines the purposes of literacy in students' lives, methods of designing and implementing culturally responsive literacy instruction, and the use of many forms of literacy as powerful tools for student engagement in school and social change. Participants are guided through...

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    Facilitating transformation: A framework for culturally responsive cognitive coaching in schools

    1/1/09 - Mulligan, Elaine, Kozeski, Elizabeth B., Equity Alliance at ASU

    "This coaching framework provides the intent, structure, and processes for providing coaching support to participating NIUSI-LeadScape principals. NIUSI-LeadScape is a federally-funded grant project to support the transformative work of inclusive schools. This project works to provide school leaders with the tools, professional learning, and ongoing dialogue necessary to transform school practices so that all students have full access to educational opportunities. The NIUSI-LeadScape...

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    Logic Model for Whole School Special Education Reform

    1/1/05 - Elizabeth Kozleski, Equity Alliance at ASU

    This tool designed to be used by districts and schools directs conversation, planning, implementation and capacity development towards whole school reform and more inclusive school practices.

  • Toolkit for Inclusive School Improvement (Part 1)

    1/1/05 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,

    Systemic school change is a complex and difficult task. The challenge is great, but educators throughout our nation and other nations are actively engaging the opportunity to transform education and how we go about the work of teaching and learning in our schools. This toolkit is developed by NIUSI to assess networks of schools engaging their faculty, staff, families, students, and community members in ongoing renewal and systemic change. The toolkit is organized around three areas...

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    A Multisite Cluster Randomized Trial of the Effects of CompassLearning Odyssey® Math on the Math Achievement of Selected Grade 4 Students in the Mid-Atlantic Region

    1/1/09 - Kay Wijekumar, John Hitchcock, Herb Turner, PuiWa Lei, Kyle Peck

    "This study was the first randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of Odyssey Math on student achievement. The study had the statistical power needed to detect a 0.20 effect size and was well designed in that comparable groups were created at baseline and maintained through posttesting. Implementation during the school year was documented and shown to be consistent with typical implementation of the Odyssey Math software. The results from the multilevel model with pretest covariates...

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    Dropout Prevention: A Practice Guide

    1/1/08 - Mark Dynarski, Linda Clarke, Brian Cobb, Jeremy Finn, Russell Rumberger, Jay Smink

    "This guide is intended to be useful to educators in high schools and middle schools, to superintendents and school boards, and to state policymakers in planning and executing dropout prevention strategies. The target audience includes school administrators as well as district-level administrators. This guide seeks to help them develop practice and policy alternatives for implementation. The guide includes specific recommendations and indicates the quality of the evidence that supports these...

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    Effects of the implementation of Proposition 227 on the education of english learners, K-12

    1/1/06 - T. B. Parrish, A. Merickel, M. Perez , R. Linquanti, M. Socias, A. Spain, , C. Speroni, P. Esra , L. Brock, D. Delancey

    “In June of 1998, Proposition 227 was passed by 61 percent of the California electorate. The initiative was intended to significantly alter the ways in which the state’s English learners are taught. Proposition 227 requires that English learners be taught ‘overwhelmingly in English’ through sheltered/structured English immersion programs during ‘a temporary transition period not normally intended to exceed one year,’ and then transferred to mainstream English-language...

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    English learners in Boston public schools: Enrollment, engagement, and academic outcomes of native speakers of Cape Verdean Creole, Chinese dialects, Haitian Creole, Spanish, and Vietnamese

    1/1/09 - Uriarte, M., Lavan, N., Agusti, N., Kala, M., Karp, F., Kiang, P., Lo, L., Tung, R., Villari, C.

    "In 2002, Massachusetts voters approved a referendum (Question 2) against the continuance of Transitional Bilingual Education as a method of instruction for English language learners. . . . Question 2 (implemented across the State in fall 2003), replaced a wide-ranging set of bilingual programs with Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) programs. . . . Unlike Transitional Bilingual Education, which relies on English learners’ own language to facilitate the learning of academic content as they...

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    English learners in Boston public schools: Enrollment, engagement, and academic outcomes, AY2003-AY2006

    1/1/09 - Tung, R., Uriarte, M., Diez, V., Lavan, N., Agusti, N., Karp, F., Meschede, T.

    "In 2002, Massachusetts voters approved a referendum (Question 2) against the continuance of Transitional Bilingual Education as a method of instruction for English language learners. . . . Question 2 (implemented across the State in fall 2003), replaced a wide-ranging set of bilingual programs with Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) programs. . . . Unlike Transitional Bilingual Education, which relies on English learners’ own language to facilitate the learning of academic content as they...

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    Implementation: The missing link between research and practice.

    1/1/09 - Fixsen, D. L., , Blase, K. A.

    Stages of Implementation and stage-related work together with effective use of the Core Implementation Components are two key frameworks for creating an effective implementation infrastructure. We need to build, utilize, and evaluate implementation infrastructures and strategies if we are to achieve significant outcomes for consumers and communities. We must learn how to implement well-researched programs and practices effectively on a national scale

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    Implementing Policies to Reduce the Likelihood of Preschool Expulsion

    1/1/08 - Walter S. Gilliam

    This policy brief examines factors associated with expulsion from Prekindergarten (PK). Recent research has explored issues regarding the rate at which preschoolers (children ages three to four) are expelled from PK programs, as well as some of the factors associated with expulsion and the effectiveness of mental health consultation to reduce the classroom behavior problems that may lead to expulsion. Although several factors that predict an increased likelihood of expulsion have been...

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    Implementing School-wide Positive Behavior Support

    1/1/08 - Rob Horner, George Sugai, Anne Todd

    This presentation specifically focuses on implementation planning, evaluation and overcoming barriers to school-wide PBS.

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    Integrating early childhood mental health consultation with the Pyramid Model

    1/1/09 - Deborah F. Perry , Roxane K. Kaufmann

    " A growing number of states and communities are implementing the Pyramid Model in early care and education settings, and in many of these places there are also early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) programs operating. This policy brief provides an overview of ECMHC, how it can support the implementation of the Pyramid Model and the policy issues that arise when administrators seek to integrate these two approaches at the state and local levels. Mental health consultants can...

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    Managing an identity crisis: Forum guide to implementing new federal race and ethnicity categories

    1/1/08 - National Forum on Education Statistics,

    This Guide provides information about the 1997 standards and suggestions about how to implement them at the state and school district level. It covers developing policies and procedures, communicating with staff and the public, re-identification, and coding, storing, reporting, and bridging data.

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    Tiered Interventions in High Schools: Using Preliminary ‘Lessons Learned’ to Guide Ongoing Discussion

    1/1/10 - National High School Center, National Center on Response to Intervention, and Center on Instruction

    Response to Intervention (RTI) is a potentially powerful framework for organizing, allocating, and evaluating educational resources to meet the instructional needs of all students and to prevent long-term school failure. Much of our knowledge of the components of RTI and their successful implementation is based on experiences in elementary schools. However, given the structural and organizational differences between elementary schools and high schools, this evidence has its limitations when...

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