University of Colorado Boulder & University of Rochester: How Research - Practice Partnerships Can Support ESSA Implementation for Educational Improvement and Equity
This guide for school districts, state leaders, and researchers shows how research - practice partnerships can play an important role in implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act.
The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) released its Acceptable Use Polices in a Web 2.0 & Mobile Era:
A Guide for School Districts at its CoSN 2011 Conference, which is aimed at assisting district leaders develop, rethink or revise Internet... Continue
Washington, DC (April 4, 2013)-- The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) has issued a refreshed acceptable use policy (AUP) guide, titled «Rethinking Acceptable Use Policies to Enable Digital Learning:
A Guide for School Districts.»
States develop
a guide for school districts and principals that want to implement expanded learning time
Many states have adopted their own principal standards that could be used as
a guide for school districts.
Not exact matches
Before Taking on Junk Food at Your Kid's
School, READ THIS The Ultimate
School District Wellness Policy: From Classroom Parties to Junk Food Ads A Year of Healthy Class Parties Planning
Guide for Parents & Teachers
The partner agencies on this project — Washington State Department of Agriculture, Washington State Department of Health, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Washington State University
School of Food Science — came together to develop «SAFE Salad Bars in Schools - A Guide for School Food Service» in order to consolidate messages and present clear guidance to school district staff and decision makers, using state - level knowledge and expertise and consulting national so
School of Food Science — came together to develop «SAFE Salad Bars in
Schools - A
Guide for School Food Service» in order to consolidate messages and present clear guidance to school district staff and decision makers, using state - level knowledge and expertise and consulting national so
School Food Service» in order to consolidate messages and present clear guidance to
school district staff and decision makers, using state - level knowledge and expertise and consulting national so
school district staff and decision makers, using state - level knowledge and expertise and consulting national sources.
How To Compromise With Your
School District Without Compromising Your Child: A Field
Guide For Getting Effective Services
For Children With Special Needs, Gary Mayerson
As a founding and managing partner, CAF
guides school districts through the grant application process and provides salad bar resources
for food service staff.
Education Resource Strategies (ERS), a non-profit provider of resources and tools
for transformational strategies
for schools, has created a series of online self - assessments and resource
guides to help more
districts through the steps.
Where the courses diverge, though, is in the experience level of the students: Leading
for Equity acts as almost a primer
for students who have little to no experience with
school or
district improvement work, whereas Coaching
for Equity is designed
for students who, like Han, have experience and who can act as
guides or coaches
for schools beginning to navigate such work.
For instance, there is a
guide with talking points that was distributed to Parkway
District Schools in St. Louis (please see stltoday.com) and many potential lessons available to help teachers begin planning Ferguson - related activities / discussion.
And though the authors of this report acknowledge the «countless intervening factors» that «no doubt affect a
school board member's ability to influence
district achievement» and which they haven't covered in this report, they nevertheless provide an invaluable
guide to policymakers
for making a few simple changes in board governance that could effect major improvements
for student academic performance.
A step - by - step
guide to this process,
for schools and
school districts, is described in the authors» recent book, Data Wise, published by the Harvard Education Press.
Good news
for education researchers: Your work is influencing
district and
school leaders, helping to
guide their decisions.
These nascent rules — from acceptable - use policies created by
school districts to
guide students on the Internet to basic manners instructions
for students with
school email accounts — have begun to show up in official documents.
In a randomized experiment in more than 500
schools within 59
districts for the reading portion of the project, 57
districts for the math portion, and seven states, approximately half of the participating
districts were randomly offered quarterly benchmark student assessments and received extensive training on interpreting and using the data to
guide reform.
Also in this issue: A look back at what the Obama administration's signature education reform got wrong, with lessons learned to
guide states and
districts in refining their teacher evaluation systems, and a warning on the limits of federally - led
school reform; a proposal
for how to redesign education research under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and a debate on whether there is a federal constitutional right to education.
Curricula, teaching methods, and schedules can all be customized to meet the learning styles and life situations of individual students; education can be freed from the geographic constraints of
districts and brick - and - mortar buildings; coursework from the most remedial to the most advanced can be made available to everyone; students can have more interaction with teachers and one another; parents can readily be included in the education process; sophisticated data systems can measure and
guide performance; and
schools can be operated at lower cost with technology (which is relatively cheap) substituted
for labor (which is relatively expensive).
This goal drives every aspect of the Boston Teacher Residency (BTR), a
district - based program
for teacher training and certification that recruits highly qualified individuals to take on the unique challenges of teaching in a high - need Boston
school and then
guides them through a specialized course of preparation.
Resources at the site include information on how to participate and curriculum
guides for all grade levels, as well as curricula written by
schools /
school districts participating in the mock election.
One way you can determine whether your
school or
district is aligned to the new vision is through the MILE
Guide, a self - assessment tool developed by the Partnership
for 21st Century.
Users are encouraged to sign up
for the Center's free newsletter,
School Climate Matters, and there is plenty of additional information available
for free (such as the
School Climate
District Guide, which can be downloaded).
Licensed
for all
schools in your
district, one implementation
guide will be added to your order.
It is meant to serve as a
guide for states and
school districts as the nationwide rollout of community eligibility approaches.
A tool that
guides timely and meaningful consultation between
districts and private
schools, ensuring equitable services
for private
school children, teachers, and other educational personnel.
The
Guide also shares best - practice guidelines
for district and
school teams on how to select and implement SEL programs.
Along with Valerie Greenhill, he has authored The Leader's
Guide to 21st Century Education: 7 Steps
for Schools and
Districts, released in summer 2012 by Pearson Education.
NASP has developed this implementation
guide as a resource to help
school psychologists through the process of advocating
for and implementing the model in their
school or
district.
For a deeper look into your
school or
district's strengths and weaknesses, use the Lead & Transform Diagnostic Tool to generate a free custom report that will help
guide your tech integration planning based on the Essential Conditions.
Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012
District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority
for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support
for Breakthrough
Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New
Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011
School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing
Schools: Building Family and Community Demand
for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost
School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter
School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent
Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons
for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter
School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting
for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X
for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing
Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing
Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.
Alexandria, Va. (April 28, 2014)- As
school districts increasingly move to cloud computing instead of on - site data storage, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) and its Council of School Attorneys (COSA) have released a guide for school boards introducing the legal issues associated with protecting student data and suggesting best prac
school districts increasingly move to cloud computing instead of on - site data storage, the National
School Boards Association (NSBA) and its Council of School Attorneys (COSA) have released a guide for school boards introducing the legal issues associated with protecting student data and suggesting best prac
School Boards Association (NSBA) and its Council of
School Attorneys (COSA) have released a guide for school boards introducing the legal issues associated with protecting student data and suggesting best prac
School Attorneys (COSA) have released a
guide for school boards introducing the legal issues associated with protecting student data and suggesting best prac
school boards introducing the legal issues associated with protecting student data and suggesting best practices.
Academic Gains, Double the # of
Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days in the Life: The Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools
for Back to School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
for Back to
School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts
for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter
School Future
for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround
Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area
Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture
Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas
for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities
for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area
District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies
for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within
School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools
for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of
School Restarts with New
Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia
Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every
School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision
For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter
Schools — April 15, 2016
School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?
«The
school law requirements section of this
guide is a key asset
for school districts and their attorneys.
Our tour
guide for this fifth stop on the Knowledge Matters
School Tour, Mad River
School District Instructional Coach Mandy Polen, had no way of knowing that our visit was going to fall on such a special day.
The
guide has been a powerful tool
for school districts.
The Collaborative
for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) identifies five interrelated clusters of cognitive, affective, and behavior competencies to
guide schools and
districts in effective planning and implementation of SEL programs and strategies.
We created a set of naming conventions
guides to serve as a reference
for accurately entering students» names in
school,
district and state databases.
The
school district has also written curriculum
guides mapped to the Common Core
for every grade.
His book, Over-Tested and Under - Prepared: Using Competency Based Learning to Transform Our
Schools is the leading
guide for districts, universities, and organizations trying to develop effective competency based learning systems.
Designed
for curriculum directors, principals, and other
school and
district leaders, this research - driven
guide examines the most essential aspects of high - quality reading practice and the elements that accelerate reading growth.
The worksheets from Using Needs Assessments
for School and
District Improvement: A Tactical
Guide.
This
guide and brief join the many free Opportunity Culture materials
for schools,
districts, and human resources personnel to use in creating an Opportunity Culture, recruiting, selecting, training, and evaluating and developing teachers and teacher - leaders in these new roles.
Matching Teacher - Led Professional Learning Costs With Sustainable Funding Sources: Overview chart of funding sources
for teacher - led professional learning, as well as a description of some broad and specific cost categories;
districts and
schools interested in fully and sustainably funding teacher - led professional learning can use this chart as a
guide to considering how different funding sources might be used to support a range of professional learning activities http://opportunityculture.org/teacher-led-professional-learning/funding-
for-teacher-led-professional-learning/
On the Same Page 2.0, is provided as a
guide for educational stakeholders to work at a
district,
school, and / or classroom level to deeply implement higher, more rigorous standards systematically and systemically.
We
guide districts in planning
for and implementing autonomous
schools and zones.
Futures Without Violence released a
guide for states and
school districts on how ESSA can create «positive
school climates, and in particular prevent and respond to the needs of children suffering from exposure to violence and the effects of trauma.»
Oakland Unified
School District (OUSD) recently published its annual Enrollment Options
Guide which was intended to be a resource
for local families.
The
guide is intended
for use by individuals or groups in K — 16 education (teachers,
school and
district administrators, curriculum directors, graduate and undergraduate students in curriculum, and others) who want to further develop their skill in UbD.
The series includes a
guide to help
district and state leaders choose the best restructuring option
for each
school, updated in a 2nd edition released in 2009, and white papers identifying what we know from research about when the first four restructuring options under NCLB work: reopening as a charter
school, contracting with external providers, turnarounds with new leaders and staff, and state takeovers.