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State Database of Teacher Evaluation Policies
The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center) created an online database promoting information sharing and collaboration as states and districts work on developing performance-based evaluation systems, often combined with measures of student growth and learning. The State Database of Teacher Evaluation Policies collects information on state-level teacher evaluation policies across multiple states and organizes the information under the eight key components of a comprehensive teacher evaluation system.
Handbook on Family and Community Engagement Webinar Series
The Handbook on Family and Community Engagement (FACE) 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. A concluding chapter lists specific recommended practices for the state, district, and school. This guide was developed in collaboration with the U.S.
Implementing the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics
Cosponsored with Center on Instruction and Alaska Comprehensive Center.
Improving Adolescent Literacy in Rural Schools: A Schoolwide Approach
Cosponsored with Center on Instruction and Alaska Comprehensive Center.
Early Warning System Tools Help Keep Middle Grades and High School Students On Track to Graduate High School
The National High School Center released a new Early Warning System Middle Grades (EWS MG) Tool and an enhanced Early Warning System High School (EWS HS) Tool. These Microsoft Excel-based tools rely on readily available student-level data (attendance, course failures, grade point average, credit accumulation, and behavior) to identify middle grade and high school students who show early warning signs that they are at risk for dropping out of high school.
Rural School Turnaround
Cosponsored with Center on Instruction and Alaska Comprehensive Center.
First in a series of webinars especially designed to assist rural school staff with implementation of their School Improvement Grants (SIGs).
Lead Turnaround Partners: How the Emerging Marketplace of Lead Turnaround Partners is Changing School Improvement
The Center on Innovation and Improvement released a report describing the use of Lead Turnaround Partners (LTPs) in the current School Improvement Grant (SIG) program and provides the results of document review, surveys, and interviews with eight State Education Agencies and seven Lead Turnaround Partner organizations. The study focuses on the implementation of the transformation and turnaround models under the SIG program during the 2010–2011 school year. The current marketplace of Lead Turnaround Partner (LTP) providers and the organizational structures of existing LTPs are explored.
Fulcrum of Change: Leveraging 50 States to Turn Around 5,000 Schools
The Center on Innovation and Improvement released a monograph examining the early implementation of the revised SIG program in select states to identify 1) how states are integrating the expanded grant program into existing school improvement efforts, and 2) emerging lessons for states interested in fully leveraging their roles to drive turnaround efforts relevant to the second round of SIG awards.
Central SIG Regional Conference Materials
The U.S. Department of Education, in partnership with its Comprehensive Centers and other regional service agencies, hosted four regional capacity building conferences in support of state education agencies (SEAs), local education agencies (LEAs), and schools awarded and implementing SIGs. The Central SIG Regional Conference, co-sponsored by the Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center, featured sessions focused on the unique needs of rural schools and schools serving American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Developing and Selecting Assessments of Student Growth for Use in Teacher Evaluation Systems
The Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center released a brief to provide guidance to states and districts as they develop and/or select and refine assessments of student growth so that the assessments can well serve teacher evaluation purposes.
