Alaskan Resources
The Department of Education & Early Development has created a comparison tool for to support the transition to the new standards. This tool can be used to assist educators in analyzing the commonalities and differences between the new standards and the Fourth Edition reading, writing, and mathematics standards (Grade Level Expectations).. This tool is a start toward the transition, and districts may choose to augment the document with more detail. All districts will continue to administer the Standards Based Assessments, which are aligned to.....
SIG Grant Resources Resources
Rural School Turnaround Webinar
This was a recording of the first in a series of webinars especially designed to assist rural school staff with implementation of their School Improvement Grants (SIGs).
In this one-hour webinar, Dr. Sam Redding, co-author of the Institute of Education Sciences' practice guide Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools, summarized the recommendations for making significant changes to increase student performance in three years or less.
Working with Community-Based Organizations to Support Increased Learning Time
School, district, and state staff who work with community-based and nonprofit organizations that provide out-of-school academic programs will find ideas for actions to facilitate program design, implementation, and improvement that is aligned with research-based practices.
Comprehensive Planning Template for Schools
This template was designed to help technical assistance and professional development providers work with schools. The results of this school-level assessment can help school personnel identify actions as part of school improvement efforts to design, monitor, or refine increased learning time models.
Comprehensive Planning Template for Districts
This template aims to help technical assistance providers and district-level personnel identify actions and policies and establish a coordinated and coherent districtwide plan to design, select, monitor, and refine increased learning time models.
Evaluate implementation and outcomes to improve program quality.
This checklist provides guidance and direction to school and district administrators in their efforts to evaluate out-of-school programs and expanded learning time schools.
Self-Evaluation Tool: Providing Individualized and Engaging Instruction in Expanded Learning Time in Schools
District and school staff are encouraged to use this tool to self-reflect on how each of the specified strategies is used as part of planning a longer school day or a longer school year. This self-reflection tool lists six categories of indicators: (a) use of data to inform instruction; (b) professional development; (c) teacher inquiry and collaboration; (d) engaging instruction and enrichment; (e) individualized Instruction; and (f) community partnerships. For each indicator, the user can provide a rating, add a rationale for the rating, and.....
Methods to Assess Family Needs
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
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
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
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
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.
A Practical Guide to Designing Comprehensive Teacher Evaluation Systems
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
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.
NCEE Releases Baseline Analyses of SIG Applications and SIG-Eligible and SIG-Awarded Schools
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.....
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.....
Changing the Conversation with Families in Persistently Low-Achieving High Schools: Guidance for Implementation of School Improvement Grants
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.
COI Webinar Series: Using DWW Resources to Support SIG Grantees in Adolescent Literacy
The Center on Instruction has released a series of five webinar modules designed to provide key adolescent literacy principles and practices to support the federally funded School Improvement Grants (SIG). The webinar modules introduce the Center on Instruction (COI) and Doing What Works (DWW) websites' tools and resources and address 1) school leadership, 2) research overview, 3) explicit vocabulary instruction in middle and high school, 4) text discussion, and 5) intensive interventions for struggling readers. Also included for each module.....
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