Research and Best Practices
The Handbook is designed to guide state, district, and school Title I personnel in providing high-quality, research-based family and community engagement programs and experiences. Thirty-six experts on a range of topics contributed to the Handbook. Each chapter provides grounding in research and practical action principles for the field. A concluding chapter lists specific recommended practices for the state, district, and school. The.....
Domain Resources
The English Language Learner KnowledgeBase
This English Language Learner KnowledgeBase website is an online database of resources supporting education professionals in the administration of programs and instruction for ELLs. Its resources are identified for four categories of users: Program Administrators, Teachers, Parent Advocates, and Educators of Migrant Students.
This resource pertains to the following topics:
English Language Learning
Special Populations
Research: Meta-analyses and Summaries
Practitioner Guides
PD Modules and Training Materials.....
Key Considerations When Measuring Teacher Effectiveness: A Framework for Validating Teachers’ Professional Practices
The report describes three levels of data collection to measure teacher effectiveness both with and without standardized test scores.
Building Teacher Evaluation Systems: Learning From Leading Efforts
This report from the Aspen Institute is part of three reports recently released by the Institute to provide policymakers and education leaders with information on how teacher evaluation and performance management systems work and to use the resulting evaluation results with other information, practices and policy levers to improve teaching and learning. This report is a synthesis of Aspen Institute’s profiles of the teacher evaluation and performance management system efforts conducted by the District of Columbia Public Schools (Teaching and.....
The Complex Ecology of Response to Intervention
This document contains papers presented by the National Center on Response to Intervention at a structured poster session, “The Complex Ecology of Response to Intervention,” at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2010 Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. The topics covered include 1. information on the overall RTI framework, 2. screening and progress monitoring within RTI, 3. delivery of instructional interventions within a RTI system, 4. SLD identification and RTI, 5. implementation of RTI across states, and 6. RTI as.....
Updated Progress Monitoring Tools Chart (National Center on RTI)
The National Center on Response to Intervention announces the updated release of the Progress Monitoring Tools Chart! This chart represents the results of the third annual review of progress monitoring tools by the Center’s Technical Review Committee (TRC).
The chart provides ratings on the technical adequacy of progress monitoring tools used within an RTI context. The tools were rated against standards of general outcome measures, or mastery measures. Additional information on how to implement the tools can be found on the chart as well......
New Updates to the National High School Center's Early Warning System (EWS) Tool v2.0 and Technical Manual
The National High School Center recently released an updated version of the tool and technical manual to better support users as they strive to identify and address issues that lead to students dropping out of school. The updated tool includes a new Export Data feature, and the updated Technical Manual includes several additional instructions, hints, and cautions to help you use the tool. More details on the new tool and Technical Manual are below, along with instructions on how you can easlily transfer your existing data into the new tool......
Conversations with Practioners: SUPPORTING STATE-LEVEL COLLABORATION AMONG GENERAL AND SPECIAL EDUCATORS
About this document
This booklet has three main parts:
• What is collaboration?
• Recommendations for supporting state-level
collaboration
• Building capacity for collaboration
Part one compares collaboration to other forms of
active partnership (cooperation and coordination) and
encourages readers to consider which type of
partnership is most appropriate for their situation.
Part two describes seven recommendations for
fostering collaboration at the state level and illustrates
them with examples of “collaboration in.....
Coaching for School Improvement: A Guide for Coaches and Their Supervisors (CII)
A Guide for Coaches and Their Supervisors offers tools, tips, and strategies for coaches working with school improvement teams. The guide also offers examples and recommendations for coaches working with teams who are using the online Indistar® tool created by CII.
http://www.centerii.org/restructuring/
Participation over time: Keeping youth engaged from middle school to high school (CII)
This article draws on data collected in a larger study of practices that engage older youth in OST programs over time,...shares insights about programs that successfully engage older youth and the strategies they use to maintain high participation rates.
http://www.centerii.org/ses/
The Impact of Enhancing Students’ Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions
This article presents findings from a meta-analysis of 213 school-based, universal social and emotional learning (SEL) programs involving 270,034 [K-12] students. Compared to controls, SEL participants demonstrated significantly improved social and emotional skills, attitudes, behavior, and academic performance that reflected an 11-percentile-point gain in achievement. School teaching staff successfully conducted SEL programs.
Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor & Schellinger(2011, February)
Child Development, 82(1), 405-432.
Progress Monitoring for Elementary Mathematics (COI)
This PowerPoint presentation from the November 2006 Math Summit: Providing Evidence-Based Practices and Implications of NCTM Focal Points provides an overview of progress monitoring systems that can be used to track student growth in elementary mathematics.
Pre-Algebra and Algebra Instruction and Assessments (COI)
This PowerPoint presentation from the Center on Instruction’s November 2006 Math Summit: Providing Evidence-based Practices and Implications of NCTM Focal Points describes assessments that can be used to determine students who are struggling with pre-algebra or algebra and monitor their progress towards acquiring knowledge in these areas.
A Comprehensive K-3 Reading Assessment Plan: Guidance for School Leaders (COI)
Because scientific studies have repeatedly demonstrated the value of regularly assessing reading progress, a comprehensive assessment plan is a critical element of an effective school-level plan for preventing reading difficulties. This guide from the Center on Instruction provides valuable information for school leaders. While the general principles, such as the early identification of students who are struggling in learning to read, are all based on scientific findings, the detailed recommendations for implementation derive from practical.....
Assessments to Guide Adolescent Literacy Instruction (COI)
This guide from the Center on Instruction is a companion volume to two other COI publications: Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents and Improving Literacy Instruction in Middle and High Schools: A Guide for Principals. It provides information about the key elements of a comprehensive assessment plan to improve literacy instruction for adolescents and provides examples of assessments and assessment systems currently in use or under development to improve literacy instruction for students in grades 4-12.
Reviews of Research on Saxon Math for High School Students (What Works Clearinghouse)
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) has released a new report this week that reviews the research on Saxon Math for high school students.
Saxon Math is a textbook series covering grades K–12 based on incremental development and continual review of mathematical concepts to give students time to learn and practice concepts throughout the year. The program is built on the premise that students learn best when instruction is incremental and explicit, previously learned concepts are continually reviewed, and assessment is frequent and.....
The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) Website
The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) conducts and communicates research to support high quality, effective, early childhood education for all young children. Such education enhances their physical, cognitive, and social development, and subsequent success in school and later life.
The Institute offers independent research-based advice and technical assistance to policy makers, journalists, researchers, and educators.
The Institute's research program aims to:
* Provide a vision of early education excellence.....
Center on Instruction (COI) Launches New Website
The Center on Instruction is pleased to announce the launch of its new website, designed to provide easier access to your specific needs for high-quality educational resources. It is updated to provide a more contemporary look as well as provide better ways to draw attention to latest resources that, as always, are high quality, useful, and relevant to clients.
COI has also added a new topic, eLearning. COI will be posting resources on web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. IMPORTANT: To.....
REL Report Identifies Instruments for Measuring Student Engagement
REL Report Identifies Instruments for Measuring Student Engagement
Researchers, educators, and policymakers are increasingly focused on student engagement as a key factor in addressing problems of low achievement, student boredom and alienation, and high dropout rates. As schools and districts seek to increase engagement, it is important for them to understand how it has been defined and to assess the options for measuring it.
This REL Southeast report, Measuring Student Engagement in Upper Elementary through High School: A Description of.....
