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.....
Instruction Resources
Making it Meaningful: Building a Fair Evaluation System
This document is an examination of the limitations of current teacher evaluation systems, a review of promising research based reform strategies, and some examples from states and school districts that have begun to do this critical and challenging work. Putting in place systems that rely on research and best practices will go a long way toward enhancing student success and closing the achievement gap.
What Makes a High Quality Afterschool Program?
A new policy brief by Denise Huang and Ron Dietel shares findings from nearly 20 years of CRESST research into effective afterschool programs.
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.....
Find What Works
Looking for a better way to find curricula, products, and practices that meet your school or district's needs? Check out the new and improved What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) search feature, Find What Works. This powerful tool makes it easy to find out what rigorous research says about the effectiveness of more than 100 widely used education interventions. You can search for interventions by grade level, subject, delivery method, and other.....
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......
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.
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.
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.....
The Essential Components: Multi-Level Prevention System (Webinar)
As one in a series of webinars focused on the essential components of RTI, this month’s webinar provides information on the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention. Dr. Katie Tackett provides an overview of primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention, the types of instruction and assessments at each level, where the instruction typically occurs, and the instructional decisions that can be made based on data.
Follow-up Live Online Chat
Please join a live online chat focused on “The Essential Components of RTI:.....
Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluation
With support from the Joyce Foundation, this report from Public Impact summarizes six steps derived from best practices and research of government agencies, non-profit organizations, and for-profit companies that are critical in designing high quality, effective performance measurement systems. Each step is illustrated by examples from other sectors. The report concludes by proposing sample elements of a performance measurement system for teachers that transparently show the relationship between the education system’s goals, teacher.....
National RTI " Responder Monthly Newsletter"
This link takes you to the monthly newsletter from the National RTI Center. It highlights topics of both national and statewide interest related to response to intervention practices, including resources from the USDOE website "Doing What Works." Educators can sign up to receive this newsletter through their personal email accounts.
Response to Intervention in Primary Grade Reading
Response to Intervention (RTI) in Primary Grade Reading is one of four sections within the newly added Data-Driven Improvement area on the Doing What Works website. The section is divided into four sub-sections: Universal Screening, Progress Monitoring and Differentiation, Systematic Skill Instruction, and Response to Intervention. Each sub-section contains a practice summary along with practical help in three tabs: Learn What Works (video interviews with nationally known research experts, key concepts, research evidence, and related links),.....
NEW Practice Guides
The What Works Clearinghouse has issued two new practice guides, with practical recommendations for educators to help them address the challenges they face in their classrooms and schools. “Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through Third-Grade” recommends five specific steps that teachers, reading coaches, and principals can take to improve reading comprehension for young readers: teach students how to use reading comprehension strategies; teach students to identify and use the text’s organizational structure to.....
Effective Science Instruction: What Does Research Tell Us? - Second Edition
This brief from the Center on Instruction endeavors to distill the research on science learning to inform a common vision of science instruction and to describe the extent to which K-12 science education currently reflects this vision. A final section on implications for policymakers and science education practitioners describes actions that could integrate the findings from research into science education.
This Second Edition of Effective Science Instruction: What Does Research Tell Us? provides more detailed information for users. In.....
