Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning
Data Wise provides a toolbox of information pertaining to data-use and assessment practice. Following the "Data Wise Improvement Process," the book provides strategies to help schools organize and use data to improve student learning. The strategy can help organize assessment projects for...
Race to the Top-District Action Brief: Establishing the Foundational Conditions for Personalized Learning
This paper provides a blueprint for districts that wish to strengthen their RTTD applications. In it, the author recommends foundational conditions schools must put in place to transform classrooms and the school itself such that students and educators are ready to implement innovative,...
Communicating the Common Core State Standards: A Resource for Superintendents, School Board Members, and Public Relations Executives
This publication says that “superintendents and school boards in particular, with support from public relations executives in their districts, have a critical role to play in educating families, staff, and the public about these changes.” This resource guide attempts to help urban school districts...
School-based Professional Learning for Implementing the Common Core
These fours units are designed to give principals and teacher leaders professional learning resources and develop their ability to facilitate job-embedded, school-based professional learning. Complete with background information, tools, slides, and handouts, the four modules cover key topics in...
Ready Kentucky: Building Employer Support for Student Success
The Kentucky Chamber Foundation, in partnership with the Kentucky State Department of Education, developed this publication to raise employer awareness of and support for the Common Core State Standards and the positive impact that the Standards will have on preparing students for success in both...
The Aboriginal Education K–12 Resource Guide, Volume 2
This Australian document provides guidelines for selecting and using aboriginal resources in K–12 classrooms, as wells as reviews of many potential resources. The guidelines in particular may be of interest to educators in the United States, and teachers may find the reviewed resources useful....
Common Core State Standards Implementation Survey
This online form of California’s Common Core State Standards Implementation Survey lists all the questions asked in the survey. Survey questions are grouped into five categories: general implementation, professional learning, instructional materials, assessment, and communications and outreach. The...
Oregon’s Guidance for District CCSS Implementation
The purpose of this document is to help districts determine where they are on the implementation continuum for Common Core State Standards. The tool is organized by 10 anchor statements, and users rate themselves on the anchor statements by the following levels: awareness, transition to...