Since 2015 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Measure to Learn and Improve (MLI) initiative has shared the perspectives of U.S. teachers and principals on a variety of topics, through the dissemination of the RAND Corporation’s annual American Educator Panel (AEP) surveys. Educators in California and several other MLI states were over-sampled on the AEP to afford state-level representativeness.
WestEd serves as the California Data Partner for the MLI initiative, keeping state policy leaders informed through a series of knowledge briefs and presentations summarizing the AEP survey results. WestEd published a suite of five knowledge briefs derived from the most recent results. Download them below.
What California Educators Are Saying about their Professional Learning and Materials Needs
This brief summarizes recent survey results related to educators’ reported needs for high-quality instructional materials and professional learning.
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What California Educators Are Saying about Data Use and Continuous Improvement
This brief summarizes recent survey results from California teachers and principals related to peer collaboration, data use, and continuous improvement.
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What California Educators Are Saying about School Leadership
This brief summarizes recent survey results from California educators related to school site leadership, covering how principals spend their time, teacher leadership, and teachers’ views of their principals.
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This brief summarizes similarities and differences in the perceptions of California educators serving differing proportions of English learner students.
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Comparing Attitudes and Practices Among Educators Serving Large Proportions of English Learners in California and Three Other States
This brief contrasts the perceptions of California educators who serve a relatively high proportion of English learner (EL) students with the perceptions of educators who are serving a relatively high proportion of EL students in three comparison states.
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