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California Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (CPSEL) Updated Tri-Fold Version
This version of the California Professional Standards for Education Leaders is a quick reference most helpful when used with the updated Moving Leadership Standards Into Everyday Work: Descriptions of Practice.
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Creating Trauma-Informed Learning Environments
This brief, produced by the Mid-Atlantic Comprehensive Center at WestEd, offers five important actions teachers can take to design trauma-sensitive learning environments.
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Restorative Justice in U.S. Schools: An Updated Research Review
This updated review documents the current breadth of evidence on restorative justice, provides a more comprehensive picture of how restorative practices are implemented in schools, and lays the groundwork for future research, implementation, and policy.
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What Works Brief #9: Family Engagement
This What Works Brief, cowritten by WestEd's Maria Paredes and Meagan O'Malley, focuses on a key fundamental element of school improvement efforts: family engagement. School staff, parents, and community members alike will benefit from the strategies designed to help all students achieve academic success.
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CenterView: How Protocols Empower Teacher Leaders to Lead and Teachers to Teach
This CenterView describes three protocols designed to help teachers communicate in a focused way that can often lead to change in practice.
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Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: A Systems Framework
This framework assists educators in rapid school and district improvement efforts through turnaround leadership, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shift.
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Evidence-Based Improvement: A Guide for States to Strengthen Their Frameworks and Supports Aligned to the Evidence Requirements of ESSA
This guide provides an initial set of tools to help states and school districts understand and plan for implementing evidence-based improvement strategies.
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Scaffolding Writing Through the "Teaching and Learning Cycle"
Help your students become effective writers through scaffolding and the Teaching and Learning Cycle.
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Bridging Cultures in Our Schools: New Approaches That Work: Knowledge Brief
This knowledge brief provides a framework for understanding how teachers' culturally driven—and often unconsciously held—values influence classroom practice and expectations, and, when in conflict with
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Focusing Formative Assessment on the Needs of English Language Learners
How can formative assessment enhance the teaching and learning of English language learner (ELL) students? What, if anything, from our experience with summative assessment of ELL students can inform effective formative assessment practices? And finally, what are the opportunities and challenges inherent in integrating formative assessment into instruction for ELL students in this era of Common Core and other next generation standards? Find out in this paper.
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Silent Recession: Why California School Districts Are Underwater Despite Increases in Funding
Learn how increasing costs are forcing many California school districts to make dramatic program adjustments and reductions, and risk significant deficit spending.
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Developmental and Behavioral Screening Guide for Early Care and Education Providers
If developmental concerns are caught early on, early care and education providers can help ensure young children receive the support and services they need.
