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Integrating Expanded Learning and School Reform Initiatives: Challenges and Strategies
Learning Point Associates and The Collaborative for Building After-School Systems describe six recommendations to better integrate high-quality, expanded learning opportunities in state, district, and school reform initiatives. Price: Free! |
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The School Leadership Triangle: From Compliance to Innovation
In The School Leadership Triangle, Paul Kimmelman, Ed.D., provides a three-point framework for creating the conditions that improve schools and districts: federal policy compliance, effective leadership, and innovation. Price: $28.95 |
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A Closer Look at the Five Essential Components of Effective Reading Instruction: A Review of Scientifically Based Reading Research for Teachers
This document focuses on instructional programs and aligned materials that emphasize the five essential components of effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Price: Free! |
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A Network for Educational Change in the Great Lakes Region: A View Through the Lens of Educational Service Agencies
The main purpose of this descriptive report is to provide an overview of the structure, capacity, and roles of ESAs in the region, within the context of the broader statewide systems of support for educational improvement and progress. Price: Free! |
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Adolescent Literacy Intervention Programs: Chart and Program Review Guide
It is increasingly clear that targeting beginning readers is not enough to ensure that students will have access to advanced education and will become economically successful citizens who fulfill their obligations for social and civic participation... Price: Free! |
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All Students Reaching the Top: Strategies for Closing Academic Achievement Gaps
This report, written by members of the National Study Group for the Affirmative Development of Academic Ability, provides a set of practical recommendations for what policymakers, educators, parents, and the community can do to move all students... Price: Free! |
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America’s Challenge: Effective Teachers for At-Risk Schools and Students
National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality has compiled information about the availability, recruitment, and retention of teachers for at-risk schools and students in this inaugural biennial report. Price: Free! |
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Approaches to Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: A Research Synthesis
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Barriers to the Preparation of Highly Qualified Teachers in Reading
This brief discusses scientifically based reading instruction in relation to federal policy mandates and focuses on strategies and standards for ensuring that teachers are qualified to teach reading. Price: Free! |
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Beyond the Bell - Principal's Guide to Effective Afterschool Programs
Principals and administrators are vital to making afterschool programs successful and effective. They have the power to guide the afterschool program and ensure that it enhances and complements the school day, rather than duplicating or imitating........ Price: $15.00 |
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Beyond the Bell - Start-Up Guide
The Beyond the Bell® Start-Up Guide is a practical resource that provides a roadmap to help you create an afterschool program that is geared toward addressing the unique needs of the children in your community..... Price: Free! |
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Beyond the Bell - Third Edition: A Toolkit for Creating Effective Afterschool Programs (includes 5 Staff Workbooks and CD-ROM)
Beyond the Bell® is a suite of products designed to help afterschool directors, coordinators, and staff create and sustain high-quality, effective afterschool programs. Price: $79.00 |
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Beyond the Bell - Third Edition: A Toolkit for Creating Effective Afterschool Programs (includes 5 Staff Workbooks, CD-ROM, and Spanish-language tools CD-ROM)
Beyond the Bell® is a suite of products designed to help afterschool directors, coordinators, and staff create and sustain high-quality, effective afterschool programs. Price: $85.00 |
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Beyond the Bell - Third Edition: Spanish-Language Tools CD-ROM
Your favorite Beyond the Bell tools are now available in Spanish. This CD-ROM contains more than 80 Spanish-language tools to help you implement a high quality afterschool program. Formatted in Microsoft Word so you can customize and print. Price: $20.00 |
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Beyond the Bell - Third Edition: Staff Workbook
This resource focuses on the guiding principles of program delivery and program design. It helps afterschool staff develop and implement activities for academic enrichment, recreation, and homework help. Price: $7.95 |
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Beyond the Bell - Third Edition: Staff Workbook (Set of 5)
This resource focuses on the guiding principles of program delivery and program design. It helps afterschool staff develop and implement activities for academic enrichment, recreation, and homework help. Order this set of 5 Staff Workbooks and save! Price: $34.95 |
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Blueprints: A Practical Toolkit for Designing and Facilitating Professional Development (CD-ROM)
The Blueprints CD-ROM is designed to help experienced as well as aspiring facilitators learn how to create effective professional development programs for mathematics and science educators. As they explore the CD-ROM, facilitators will... Price: $14.95 |
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Calculating the Ability of Within-School Teacher Supply to Meet the Demands of New Requirements: The Example of the Michigan Merit Curriculum
This brief describes how to calculate an undersupply of full-time equivalent teachers in core content areas based on state graduation requirements. Schools can adjust the variables in the formula to fit their own needs. Price: Free! |
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Charter and Innovative Schools: Emerging Trends Reflected in the State Phase 1 Race to the Top Applications
This report examines state methods of promoting charter and innovative schools, as mentioned in the Race to the Top applications. Price: Free! |
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Communication Framework for Measuring Teacher Quality and Effectiveness: Bringing Coherence to the Conversation
This communication framework was developed to promote effective dialogue about the measurement of teacher quality and effectiveness. Price: Free! |
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Connecting Formative Assessment Research to Practice: An Introductory Guide for Educators
Intended to enhance the knowledge and build the capacity of state, district, and school personnel to implement effective formative assessment practice. Price: Free! |
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Connecting Research About Access to Higher Education to Practice
Outlines the barriers to higher education for students and provides policymakers and practitioners with resources. Price: Free! |
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Connecting Research About English Language Learners to Practice: An Introductory Guide for Educators
Provides an overview of key research findings, highlights federal policies related to English language learners, outlines district- and school-level action opportunities, and lists resources. Price: Free! |
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Connecting Research to Practice: Knowing Who Is Proficient Isn't Always Sufficient
Three components to help educators and policymakers understand the limitations of relying on a single measurement tool and the value of continually seeking out multiple perspectives on student performance data. Price: Free! |
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Connecting With The Learner: An Equity Toolkit (CD-ROM)
Connecting With the Learner: An Equity Toolkit is designed for professional developers with the intent that more equitable practices might be integrated into teaching, learning, assessment, and professional development. Price: $14.95 |
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Culturally Responsive Instruction: Promoting Literacy in Secondary Content Areas
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how secondary teachers implement culturally responsive literacy instruction in their content areas. Price: Free! |
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Data Exploration: A Journey to Better Teaching and Learning (Video and Booklet)
Using data to improve student achievement is no longer just a good idea, but rather a requirement to comply with the laudable goals of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Price: $9.95 |
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Data Readiness Tool
This guidebook offers tools and resources for district and school leaders who want to acquire and implement an electronic data system. Price: Free! |
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Differentiation Through Flexible Grouping: Successfully Reaching All Readers
No one grouping pattern inherently is bad, but the exclusive use of one grouping pattern often leads to problems in the classroom. In the past, the overuse of homogenous small groups often meant that many readers never had access to the same quality of in Price: Free! |
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Educating Preservice Teachers: The State of Affairs
By providing empirical research to answer questions related to preservice teacher education in the field, the educational community will realize that developing effective teachers is a multidimensional, ongoing, and engaging process. The core component of Price: Free! |
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Enhancing Leadership Quality
This brief focuses on the following strategies: enhancing teacher leadership, identifying how highly effective leaders support teachers, and improving the preparation of school and district leaders. Price: Free! |
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Evaluating School Principals
This TQ Center Tips & Tools Key Issue describes available strategies and resources for evaluating school principals. Price: Free! |
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Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: Emerging Trends Reflected in the State Phase 1 Race to the Top Applications
This report examines state methods of measuring teacher effectiveness, as mentioned in the Race to the Top applications. Price: Free! |
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Everything Secondary Administrators Need to Know, but Are Afraid to Ask: Understanding Pragmatic Adolescent Literacy Planning
It is clear that getting third graders to read at grade level is an important and challenging task—and one that needs ongoing attention. But many excellent third-grade readers will falter or fail in later-grade academic tasks if the teaching of reading is Price: Free! |
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Examining District Guidance to Schools on Teacher Evaluation Policies in the Midwest Region
This descriptive study provides a snapshot of teacher evaluation policies across a demographically diverse sample of districts in the Midwest Region. Price: Free! |
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From Struggle to Success: One High School's Journey to Literacy Achievement
By hiring an administration that asked the tough data questions, developing and implementing a long-term professional development plan that focused on building a knowledge base upon reading instruction, modeling effective instructional strategies, and pla Price: Free! |
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Getting the Evidence for Evidence-Based Initiatives: How the Midwest States Use Data Systems to Improve Educational Processes and Outcomes
States in the Midwest Region are developing innovative approaches to collecting and providing access to high-quality data in order to improve educational decisionmaking. Price: Free! |
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Guide to Using Data in School Improvement Efforts
This guide is designed for educators who are beginning to learn how to use data for school improvement. Price: Free! |
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Guide to Working with External Providers
Schools and districts often are turning to external service providers for help in improving teaching and learning. This guide provides a step-by-step approach to working with external providers. Price: Free! |
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Guide to Working With Model Providers
This guide focuses on one aspect of comprehensive school reform (CSR): helping schools and districts forge partnerships with external developers of CSR models. Price: Free! |
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Hiring Quality School Leaders: Challenges and Emerging Practices
This brief describes the research on effective principal hiring and offers practical, emerging practices that school superintendents and hiring committees have implemented to address the challenges of hiring a school principal. Price: Free! |
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Identifying How Highly Effective Leadership Supports Teachers
This TQ Center Tips & Tools Key Issue provides research-based advice and extensive resources on what school leaders can do to support better teaching. Price: Free! |
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Implementing NCLB—Creating a Knowledge Framework to Support School Improvement
The book is intended for educators and administrators who play an active role in leading their school or district improvement efforts. Dr. Kimmelman provides an overview of the politics and education initiatives that led to NCLB... Price: $29.95 |
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Improving Adequate Yearly Progress for English Language Learners
Specific issues related to AYP and ELL students that warrant attention as well as key characteristics of effective instructional programs. Price: Free! |
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Improving Instruction Through Effective Teacher Evaluation: Options for States and Districts
This brief discusses the measures used in teacher evaluation and focuses on their strengths, limitations, and current use. Price: Free! |
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Improving the Preparation of School and District Leaders
This TQ Center Tips & Tools Key Issue identifies research-based practices and extensive resources on how principal preparation programs best train future school leaders. Price: Free! |
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Integrated Vocabulary Instruction: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners in Grades K-5
The goal of this document is to provide the information that teachers and other colleagues in school need to implement an integrated and comprehensive approach to vocabulary instruction. By integrated, it is meant that vocabulary is a core... Price: Free! |
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Is the Supply in Demand? Exploring How, When, and Why Teachers Use Research
This report, funded by the Spencer Foundation, explores both the types of educational research teachers find useful for advancing their instructional practice and the ways they access the research currently available. Price: Free! |
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Is Your School Fit for Literacy? 10 Areas of Action for Principals
Ten ways to review your school's level of literacy fitness. Use the lists to check the status of your current knowledge and activity. Price: Free! |
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Keeping Pace With K–12 Online Learning: A Review of State-Level Policy and Practices
Online learning holds promise for providing new educational opportunities to a wide range of students across the country. The rapid expansion of K–12 online learning, however, threatens to outpace the development of appropriate state-level policies... Price: Free! |
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Leading Gen Y Teachers: Emerging Strategies for School Leaders
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Leading Lesson Study: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Facilitators
This guide provides teachers, administrators, and team leaders with practical strategies, models, and tools for conducting Lesson Study. Price: $34.95 |
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Making Good Choices: A Guide for Schools and Districts—Revised Edition (CSR) (Booklet and CD-ROM)
Making Good Choices: A Guides for Schools and Districts has been revised to reflect the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and now includes an interactive CD-ROM that presents all the tools in the appendices. It is designed for districts seeki... Price: $4.95 |
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Making Good Choices: Sustainable School Improvement
The third booklet in the Making Good Choices series focuses on sustaining the school improvement effort. Price: Free! |
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Making Good Choices: Districts Take the Lead (CSR)
Making Good Choices: Districts Take the Lead helps school districts make comprehensive school reform (CSR) an integral part of their strategies for improving student achievement. This practical publication combines reform ideas with tools to... Price: Free! |
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Managing Educator Talent: Promising Practices and Lessons From Midwestern States
This policy analysis considers how state policies in the Midwest support the development of effective teachers and leaders throughout their career. Price: Free! |
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Measurement of Student Growth: Emerging Trends Reflected in the State Phase 1 Race to the Top Applications
This report examines state methods of measuring student growth, as mentioned in the Race to the Top applications. Price: Free! |
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Measuring Principal Performance: How Rigorous Are Publicly Available Principal Performance Assessment Instruments?
This brief reviews the publicly available principal assessments and points superintendents and policy makers toward strong instruments to measure principal performance. Price: Free! |
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Methodologies Used by Midwest Region States for Studying Teacher Supply and Demand
This report describes how state education agencies in the Midwest Region monitor teacher supply, demand, and shortage; details why they monitor these data; and offers estimates of the monetary costs incurred in performing such studies. Price: Free! |
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Moving Beyond the Obvious: Examining Our Thinking About Linguistically Diverse Students
A very brief theoretical framework for thinking about content-area literacy instruction for ELLs. What do effective teachers of linguistically diverse students know and do? This question is answered in five parts. Price: Free! |
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New Data Needed: Improving Survey Research On Two-Year College Experiences
Research can improve understanding of two-year colleges, but new detailed indicators are needed to capture the complexities of this changing sector. Price: Free! |
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Paving the Path to the Urban School Principalship
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Perspectives On the Gaps: Fostering the Academic Success of Minority and Low-Income Students
This publication is the latest result of continuing efforts by staff at the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) at Learning Point Associates to help eliminate academic achievement gaps between students of color and low income... Price: Free! |
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Policy Issues (No. 16) - State Education Data Systems That Increase Learning and Improve Accountability
This issue examines the current condition of state education data systems by looking critically at the past, present, and future of education data use. It assesses the components needed for system improvements and provides policy recommendations... Price: Free! |
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Policy Issues (No. 17) - Education Evolution: The Need to Keep Pace With Development of K-12 Online Learning
Online learning is changing the way education is delivered, especially for students whose choices are limited due to their locations, physical challenges, or scheduling conflicts. This edition of Policy Issues highlights K–12 online learning... Price: Free! |
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Policy Issues (No. 18) - Beyond High School: Improving Transition Programs for Postsecondary Education
More than 90 percent of high school seniors expect to attend some type of college, yet in 2001, only 32 percent of graduates were prepared for postsecondary education. This timely edition of Policy Issues focuses on the importance of success... Price: Free! |
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Policy Issues (No. 19) - Ensuring Equity, Access, and Quality In 21st Century Community Learning Centers
This edition of Policy Issues looks at the status of access, equity, and quality issues affecting the 21st CCLC afterschool initiative. The issue begins with background information on the 21st CCLC program... Price: Free! |
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Policy Issues (No. 20) - Targeting Teacher Recruitment And Retention Policies For At-Risk Schools
This edition of Policy Issues addresses teacher recruitment and retention policies in play across the country. We start by proposing a generally accepted definition of at-risk schools and making a case for why it is so important to improve... Price: Free! |
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Policy Issues (No. 21) - Using Data To Understand the Academic Performance of English Language Learners
This edition of Policy Issues has been developed to provide perspectives on how information that is already being collected can be analyzed and reported in ways that support the internal information needs of educational systems. Price: Free! |
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Powerful Practices in Mathematics and Science
Powerful Practices in Mathematics and Science includes two research-based CD-ROMs and a monograph that features findings of several years of in-class research conducted through the National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in... Price: $19.95 |
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Preliminary Review: CCSSO Strategic Initiatives Identified in State Phase 1 Race to the Top Applications
Learning Point Associates and the Council of Chief State School Officers examine trends in the education workforce; information systems and research; next-generation learners; and standards, assessments, and accountability. Price: Free! |
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Professional Development for Teachers of Reading
Scores of programs, plans, and policies intended to improve reading, teaching, and learning are surfacing. This paper will address the professional development of educators in the area of reading and make recommendations based on the findings. Price: Free! |
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Professional Development: Learning From the Best
This comprehensive toolkit is based on the experiences of award winning sites of the U.S. Department of Education's National Awards Program for Model Professional Development. It provides schools and districts with a step-by-step guide to implementin... Price: Free! |
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Prospects for the Profession: Public Opinion Research on Teachers
This comprehensive review of 16 nationally representative public opinion polls conducted between 2000 and 2006 provides insight into how teachers, school administrators, parents, and the general public view the teaching profession. Price: Free! |
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Qualified Teachers for At-Risk Schools: A National Imperative
The report defines the staffing problem in at-risk schools, noting the factors identified through research that appear to contribute to the problem as well as the efforts that have been undertaken around the country to address it. Price: Free! |
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Quick Key 1 - Understanding the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: Reading
The purpose of this Quick Key is to help educators in schools and districts understand the basics of what No Child Left Behind (NCLB) means for their reading programs. While NCLB reading programs focus primarily on prekindergarten through... Price: Free! |
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Quick Key 2 - Understanding the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: Opportunities for Schools in Need of Improvement
The purpose of this Quick Key is to help administrators, educators, parents, and community members understand some of the opportunities and resources available to schools that do not reach adequate yearly progress. Price: Free! |
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Quick Key 3 - Understanding the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: Technology Integration
This brochure is intended to assist policymakers, administrators, and educators in understanding the fundamentals of how the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act translates into their own technology integration initiatives. The significant technology... Price: Free! |
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Quick Key 4 - Understanding the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: Mathematics and Science
The purpose of this Quick Key is to help educators in schools and districts understand the fundamentals of what No Child Left Behind (NCLB) means for their mathematics and science curricula. The NCLB legislation also emphasizes the... Price: Free! |
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Quick Key 5 - Understanding the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: English Proficiency
What defines a highly qualified teacher of LEP students? What is required of LEP students and who is accountable? How is progress of all students ensured? When and how is English language proficiency assessed? All of these questions, and many more... Price: Free! |
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Quick Key 6 - Understanding the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: Teacher Quality
What qualifications and characteristics define a highly qualified teacher? What are states doing now that the deadline for all teachers to be highly qualified has been extended by a year? These questions and more are addressed in this timely resource. Price: Free! |
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Quick Key 7 - Understanding the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: Scientifically Based Research
This informational brochure helps school understand and identify the six components that make up scientifically based research by offering detailed explanations and examples. Price: Free! |
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Quick Key 8 Action Guide - Implementing the No Child Left Behind Act: Teacher Quality Improves Student Achievement
Learning Point Associates introduces the Quick Key Action Guides, designed to help educators successfully implement the various components of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. The new series builds on the quality and success of the first... Price: Free! |
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Quick Key 9 Action Guide - Implementing the No Child Left Behind Act: Strategies to Improve High Schools
High school graduates must be prepared for the demands of the 21st century—whether these demands come from postsecondary education or the workforce. The latest Quick Key from Learning Point Associates examines the challenges educators are... Price: Free! |
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Quick Key 10 Action Guide - Implementing the No Child Left Behind Act: Using Student Engagement to Improve Adolescent Literacy
Reading and writing touch practically every aspect of our lives. Yet so many middle school and high school students struggle with reading and writing skills. Until recently, federal attention was focused primarily on literacy in the early grades but ... Price: Free! |
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Reading First - Instructional Leadership for Principals
This booklet is designed for principals who are implementing the Reading First initiative in their schools. It is based in part on the information presented in the Reading First Subgrant Technical Assistance website. Price: Free! |
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Reading First - Professional Development for Teachers and Principals
This booklet provides details on professional development for effectively implementing the Reading First initiative. It is based in part on the information presented in the Reading First Subgrant Technical Assistance website. Price: Free! |
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Reading First Literacy Coaching: A Guide for Coaches and Reading First Leaders
This resource has been designed to assist Reading First literacy coaches in their professional growth and to provide information on the roles played by literacy coaches. Price: Free! |
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Reading: Birth to Age 5
Teachers and parents alike will find Reading: Birth to Age 5 a beneficial resource for understanding literacy development in pre-kindergarten-aged children. This book provides an introduction to milestones of literacy development. Teachers can provide... Price: Free! |
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Reading: Birth to Age 5 (Spanish Edition)
Teachers and parents alike will find Reading: Birth to Age 5 a beneficial resource for understanding literacy development in pre-kindergarten-aged children. This book provides an introduction to milestones of literacy development. Teachers can provide... Price: Free! |
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Recruiting Quality Teachers in Mathematics, Science, and Special Education for Urban and Rural Schools
This publication focuses on six strategies for recruiting highly qualified teachers in mathematics, science, and special education. Price: Free! |
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School Improvement: Emerging Trends Reflected in the State Phase 1 Race to the Top Applications
This report examines state strategies for improving the lowest performing schools, as mentioned in the Race to the Top applications. Price: Free! |
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School Restructuring: What Works When
The 2010 edition, emphasizing the four School Improvement Grant intervention models, translates research on restructuring chronically struggling schools into practical decision-making tools. Price: Free! |
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Seeing Themselves as Capable and Engaged Readers: Adolescents and Re/Mediated Instruction
This paper explores how to engage adolescent students so they see themselves as capable readers who become engaged in the materials. Price: Free! |
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Snapshots of Indiana’s Full-Day Kindergarten Programs Before and After the State’s Funding Increase for the Program
This brief describes Indiana’s full-day kindergarten enrollment patterns before and after the legislation (in 2006/07 and 2007/08) both in the state at large and in individual school corporations (equivalent to school districts) for all kindergarten stude Price: Free! |
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State Legislation: Emerging Trends Reflected in the State Phase 1 Race to the Top Applications
This report examines the state legislation passed between 2007 and early 2010 related to teacher effectiveness and the equitable distribution of teachers, as mentioned in the Race to the Top applications. Price: Free! |
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State Policies on Human Capital Management in Minnesota
This brief on human capital resource management describes state policies in Minnesota in four key areas—preparation and licensure, recruitment, induction and professional development, and compensation and working conditions. Price: Free! |
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State Policies on Human Capital Resource Management in Illinois
This brief on human capital resource management describes state policies in Illinois in four key areas—preparation and licensure, recruitment, induction and professional development, and compensation and working conditions. Price: Free! |
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State Policies on Human Capital Resource Management in Indiana
This brief on human capital resource management describes state policies in Indiana in four key areas—preparation and licensure, recruitment, induction and professional development, and compensation and working conditions. Price: Free! |
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State Policies on Human Capital Resource Management in Iowa
This brief on human capital resource management describes state policies in Iowa in four key areas—preparation and licensure, recruitment, induction and professional development, and compensation and working conditions. Price: Free! |
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State Policies on Human Capital Resource Management in Michigan
This brief on human capital resource management describes state policies in Michigan in four key areas—preparation and licensure, recruitment, induction and professional development, and compensation and working conditions. Price: Free! |
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State Policies on Human Capital Resource Management in Ohio
This brief on human capital resource management describes state policies in Ohio in four key areas—preparation and licensure, recruitment, induction and professional development, and compensation and working conditions. Price: Free! |
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State Policies on Human Capital Resource Management in Wisconsin
State Policies on Human Capital Resource Management in Wisconsin This brief on human capital resource management describes state policies in Wisconsin in four key areas—preparation and licensure, recruitment, induction and professional development, and co Price: Free! |
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State Policies on Teacher Evaluation Practices in the Midwest Region
This report reveals how state policies address teacher evaluation practices and briefly describes other state-level initiatives that include teacher evaluation components. Price: Free! |
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Stepping Stones to Evaluating Your Own School Literacy Program
A tool for elementary school improvement teams to evaluate and strengthen their reading programs. Each Stepping Stone is a guided activity to stimulate reflection and guide systematic inquiry. It is a collaborative, active research approach to... Price: Free! |
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Strategic Teaching and Reading Project Comprehension Resource Handbook
This valuable handbook provides educators with current research on reading strategy instruction, models and examples of strategy applications in the classrooms, and concrete suggestions for assessment and evaluation. The information is designed for... Price: $19.95 |
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Successful School Turnarounds: Seven Steps for District Leaders
This brief, by Julie Kowal, Emily Ayscue Hassel, and Bryan C. Hassel, draws from the cross-sector research base on successful turnarounds to offer seven steps for district leaders to support turnaround principals and maximize their chances of success. Price: Free! |
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Teacher Education and Technology Planning Guide
This guide provides a framework of eight key categories for assessing the readiness levels of teacher education programs to ensure that their students graduate with the knowledge, skills, and predispositions for teaching effectively with technology in any Price: Free! |
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Teacher Leadership as a Key to Education Innovation: Action Steps and Promising Strategies for State, District, and University Officials
This TQ Center Policy-to-Practice Brief is intended to help regional centers and state policymakers as they consider expanded career paths for teachers as a vehicle for promoting teacher leadership and educator quality. Price: Free! |
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Teacher Quality and Student Achievement: Making the Most of Recent Research
This brief culls the associations between teacher quality and student achievement, as identified in a research synthesis conducted by the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality. Price: Free! |
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Teacher Quality in At-Risk Schools: TQ Source Tips & Tools: Emerging Strategies to Enhance Teacher Quality
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Teacher to Teacher: Reshaping Instruction Through Lesson Study (Facilitator's Guide and Video)
NCREL has released a comprehensive, multimedia resource based on Lesson Study, a job-embedded, collaborative professional development process. The 140-page Facilitator's Guide includes interactive group processes, handouts, transparencies, facilitator... Price: $29.95 |
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Teachers on the Move: A Look at Teacher Interstate Mobility Policy and Practice
Barriers and Promising Solutions to Teacher Interstate Mobility Price: Free! |
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Ten Years of Research On Adolescent Literacy, 1994–2004: A Review.
The review focuses on the multiple variables that impact the literacy development of adolescents, divided into four broad categories: developmental variables; social, cultural, and linguistic variables; instructional and assessment variables; and... Price: Free! |
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The Link between Teacher Quality and Student Outcomes: A Research Synthesis
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The National Reading Panel Report: Practical Advice for Teachers
There are many books on reading education and thousands of vendors, consultants, professors, and other experts on the subject. There are even a large number of authoritative reports written with the idea of shaping reading education... Price: $4.95 |
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The Teacher Preparation > Teacher Practices > Student Outcomes Relationship in Special Education: Missing Links and Next Steps. A Research Synthesis
This research synthesis is an in-depth review of the literature on the links between the content and form of preservice teacher preparation in special education, teachers' practice in classrooms, and the achievement outcomes of students with special needs Price: Free! |
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The Teacher Preparation > Teacher Practices > Student Outcomes Relationship in Special Education: Missing Links and Next Steps. A Research Synthesis
An in-depth review of the literature on the links between the content and form of preservice teacher preparation in special education, teachers' practice in classrooms, and the achievement outcomes of students with special needs. Price: Free! |
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The Teacher Preparation>Teacher Practices>Student Outcomes Relationship in Special Education: Missing Links and New Connections
The purpose of this paper is to examine relationships between preservice teacher preparation, teacher in-service practice, and outcomes for students with special needs. Price: Free! |
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Three Preservice Programs Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology: A Study in Partnerships
With these concerns as background, in the winter/spring of 2002, the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) began a series of studies to answer a critical question: How well are teachers prepared to use technology effectively in urban and r Price: Free! |
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Toward the Structural Transformation of Schools: Innovations in Staffing
To harness the opportunities for large-scale reform, Learning Point Associates calls for states to lead the structural transformation of schooling, beginning with revolutionizing how they think about, prepare, license, deploy, and support educators. This Price: Free! |
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Using Multiple Levels of Data to Address Education Issues
This Policy Brief is based on Getting the Evidence for Evidence-Based Initiatives: How the Midwest States Use Data Systems to Improve Educational Processes and Outcomes. Price: Free! |
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Using Multiple Texts to Teach Content
We are all, daily, bombarded with multiple messages (texts, broadly defined)—in the news, over the Internet, in our workplaces and during leisure activities. Often, these multiple messages are contradictory and confusing. Take for instance, the contr... Price: Free! |
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Using Technology to Improve the Literacy Skills of Students With Disabilities
This is a summary of best practices in using technology to improve the literacy skills of students receiving special education services. Price: Free! |
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Using Young-Adult Literature to Enhance Comprehension in the Content Areas
We find ourselves in Kenneth Sharp's senior economics class at Sunrise High School on a Wednesday morning. Students are immersed in a simulation aimed at helping them understand the concept of opportunity cost in a shifting, global landscape. (In eco... Price: Free! |
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Viewpoints (Vol. 9) - Bridging the Great Divide: Broadening Perspectives on Closing the Achievement Gaps
This multimedia resource includes two audio CDs and a companion booklet and focuses on closing the gaps that separate white, Asian, and economically advantaged students from their African American, Latino or Latina, Native American, and economically... Price: $29.95 |
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Viewpoints (Vol. 10) - After-School Learning and Beyond
This volume of Viewpoints, "After-School Learning and Beyond” focuses on extended learning programs and services, and explains how such programs can help students meet academic learning standards. Viewpoints is a multimedia resource... Price: $29.95 |
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Viewpoints (Vol. 11) - Improving Student Achievement and Teacher Effectiveness Through Scientifically Based Practices
This volume of Viewpoints outlines the elements of scientifically based research as they relate to teacher effectiveness and student outcomes. The two audio CDs present the perspectives of education leaders who work closely with scientifical... Price: $29.95 |
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Viewpoints (Vol. 12) Using Technology to Improve Student Learning
This volume of Viewpoints, "Using Technology to Improve Student Learning” presents the perspectives of education leaders on the uses of technology in education and the issues that surround them. Viewpoints is a multimedia resource that provides two a... Price: $29.95 |
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Viewpoints (Vol. 13) - Perspectives on High School Reform
This volume of Viewpoints gives an overview of the issues surrounding Perspectives on High School Reform to improve student learning and teacher effectiveness, findings of recent research, and current efforts designed to help us realize... Price: $29.95 |