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Methods to Assess Family Needs
Alaskan Resources
Use this tool to guide data collection on potential factors that may affect attendance in your out-of-school program or expanded learning time school.
The SEDL National Center for Quality Afterschool
Alaskan Resources
The SEDL National Center for Quality Afterschool helps state education agencies and local practitioners develop high-quality, balanced programs that provide a safe and fun environment for academic enrichment as well as youth development activities.
Doing What Works: Increased Learning Time: Beyond the Regular School Day
Alaskan Resources
A growing body of research evidence indicates that additional learning time can promote students' academic achievement. Districts and schools can provide additional learning opportunities as part of a longer school day, week, or year; or as an out-of-school program before or after school, on weekends, or during the summer months. This multimedia overview describes research-based practices to effectively design, implement, and evaluate efforts to provide additional learning time.
IES Guide: Structuring Out of School Time
Alaskan Resources
Additional learning time can help close the gap between low- and high-performing students. It can provide academic support that extends beyond the help that students receive during regular school hours. An expert panel developed a Practice Guide featuring five recommendations to help districts, schools, and program providers design, implement, and evaluate local programs. The guide describes the research supporting each recommendation, how to carry it out, and how to address roadblocks for implementation. For the purposes of this website,.....
National Center On Time and Learning
Alaskan Resources
The National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) is dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well-rounded education.
Through research, public policy and technical assistance, this center supports national, state and local initiatives that add significantly more school time for academic and enrichment opportunities to help children meet the demands of the 21st century.
What Makes a High Quality Afterschool Program?
Research and Best Practices
A new policy brief by Denise Huang and Ron Dietel shares findings from nearly 20 years of CRESST research into effective afterschool programs.
Screening for Mathematics Difficulties in K-3 Students - Second Edition
Research and Best Practices
This second edition of Screening for Mathematics Difficulties in K-3 Students which was originally published in 2007 updates the document with new research in the assessment field in developing valid and reliable screening measures for early mathematics difficulties. It focuses on valid and reliable screening measures for students in kindergarten and first grade but also examines data on screening tests for second and third graders, since the goal of screening is to identify students who might struggle to learn mathematics during their initial.....
A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas
Research and Best Practices
This document, based on the research on teaching and learning science, provides the first step towards creating new standards in K-12 science education. It defines the foundational knowledge and skills to be taught in K-12 science and engineering, based on three major dimensions: (1) Scientific and Engineering Practices, (2) Crosscutting Concepts that apply across all fields, and (3) Disciplinary Core Ideas in physical sciences, life sciences, earth and space sciences, and engineering, technology, and the application of science.
The Handbook on Family and Community Engagement
Research and Best Practices
This Handbook is intended to provide educators, community leaders, and parents with a succinct survey of the best research and practice accumulated over the years. More important, the Handbook gives us a guide—a lean and lucid roadmap with which we can travel to a new plain in our quest for each and every student’s academic, personal, social, and emotional development. The authors wanted to bring together the best minds on the various topics related to family and community engagement and produce a guidebook that is solid in its research.....
The Standards for Mathematical Practice
Research and Best Practices
Drawing from NCTM process standards and the National Research Council’s Adding it Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics, this document from the National Governor's Association serves as a useful supplement to the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics. It describes varieties of expertise—“processes and proficiencies”--that mathematics teachers should develop in their students.
eLearning Module from EED: Alaska Steps Toward Educational Progress and Partnership (STEPP)
Alaskan Resources
This course is for school and district staff participating in Alaska STEPP. The course is organized into 17 chapters. The first chapter is an overview of the purpose and process of Alaska STEPP. The remaining 16 chapters outline other specific details in navigating STEPP and applying it to the School and District Improvement process.
1. To access this course, you must first login as a user at www.eed.state.ak.us/ELearning/
2. After successfully logging in, you will see a Welcome page. On the right hand side of the page is a link for.....
The English Language Learner KnowledgeBase
Research and Best Practices
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.....
Principal Walk-Throughs
Alaskan Resources
Principal Walk-throughs: A Tool for Alaska Instructional Leaders, was produced by Education Northwest through the Alaska Comprehensive Center in a partnership with the Alaska Department of Education & Early Development (EED). This set of materials provides the tools necessary to develop understanding of the purpose of a walk-through, and some essentials necessary to conduct.....
Collaborative Meetings
Research and Best Practices
Based on the research literature, this guide was developed specifically to support Alaska educators’ efforts to increase student learning by meeting together to collaboratively monitor the progress of their students, assess students’ learning needs, and decide how to tailor instructional practice in response to those identified needs. There is a DVD that accompanies this guide that.....
AKSCI Science Curriculum
Alaskan Resources
After a monumental effort by the team at the Geophysical Institute at UAF, the new AKSCI science curriculum is now ready and available for use by district throughout the state. While this curriculum was created with the Yukon Flats School District in mind, it is available to, and should be applicable to, all 54 of our districts in the state.
Briefly, it is a spiraling, integrated curriculum that teaches concepts in earth, physical, and life sciences in each year. It is a complete K-12 curriculum; however, districts, sites, or teachers are.....
A Practical Guide to Designing Comprehensive Teacher Evaluation Systems
Research and Best Practices
Across the nation, states and districts
are in the process of building better
teacher evaluation systems that not
only identify highly effective teachers
but also systematically provide data and
feedback that can be used to improve
teacher practice . A Practical Guide to
Designing Comprehensive Teacher
Evaluation Systems is a tool designed to
assist states and districts in constructing
high-quality teacher evaluation systems in
an effort to improve teaching and learning
Central SIG Regional Conference Resources from Denver
Alaskan Resources
This site is intended to house the resources for the May 24-25, 2011 Regional School Improvement Grants Conference in Denver, CO. If you would like to download any of the conference session resources, choose the icon on the left sidebar to be taken to the Resources File Cabinet.
Behavior and Classroom Management: Online Professional Development Modules and Resources for Implementation
Research and Best Practices
Are you concerned about how to implement and sustain classroom management and behavioral interventions? This webinar will highlight the free, online professional development modules and resources on Classroom and Behavior Management provided by the IRIS (IDEA '04 and Research for Inclusive Settings) Center for Training Enhancements. Silvia DeRuvo, Senior Program Associate at the California Comprehensive Center at WestEd, and two classroom teachers will discuss how the content of these instructional resources are effective when setting the.....
NCEE Releases Baseline Analyses of SIG Applications and SIG-Eligible and SIG-Awarded Schools
Alaskan Resources
The National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance has just released the Baseline Analyses of SIG Applications and SIG-Eligible and SIG-Awarded Schools. The report is the first from the Study of School Turnaround (SST), which examines the implementation of the School Improvement Grants (SIG) that is authorized under Title I section 1003(g) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and supplemented by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Baseline Analyses uses publicly-available data from State.....
Using Additional Teacher Collaboration Time to Improve Student Achievement
Research and Best Practices
Teacher collaboration is crucial to improving instruction and accelerating student achievement. In this last session in our webinar series on extended learning time, Ben Lummis, Vice President for the National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) and Sarah Gallagher, Program Associate at NCTL will share how more time can be best used to improve teacher collaboration and professional development. The session will explore the essential components of productive teacher time through examples of effective practices at both elementary and high.....
Making Choices to Prioritize Learning Time for Students
Research and Best Practices
Do you wonder how districts, unions, and schools can collaborate to create innovative time and prioritize expanded learning time for students?
Budgets, staffing, and negotiated agreements don’t have to place strict limits on the length of the school day. In this third session of a webinar series on expanded learning time, Ben Lummis, Vice President for the National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) and Sarah Gallagher, Program Associate at NCTL will share a framework for flexibly thinking about resources to maximize the length of your.....
Key Considerations When Measuring Teacher Effectiveness: A Framework for Validating Teachers’ Professional Practices
Research and Best 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
Research and Best Practices
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.....
Changing the Conversation with Families in Persistently Low-Achieving High Schools: Guidance for Implementation of School Improvement Grants
Alaskan Resources
This brief provides information to SEAs and LEAs working with secondary schools, as well as to the schools themselves, to change the conversation with families in order to support reform efforts. The brief begins with research on family engagement at the secondary level to provide an evidence-based foundation for selecting appropriate strategies. Based on the research, the brief then highlights two approaches that hold promise for family engagement.
