Research & Evaluation
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Identifying Indicators of Distress in Charter Schools: Tools to Support Authorizer Data Collection
This toolkit is a self-guided resource for authorizers to identify indicators of distress, audit their data collection and evaluation process, and assess whether and to what extent the schools in their portfolio are showing indicators of distress.
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Planning for Family Engagement in the Charter School Life Cycle: A Toolkit for School Leaders
Family engagement is a critical component of the core work in the charter sector and this actionable toolkit supports school leaders in designing a plan for building authentic, sustainable relationships with families that can be incorporated into a school’s daily work.
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Getting Better at Getting More Equitable: Addressing Racial Inequities in Education Using Equity-Driven Continuous Improvement
This resource is intended for educators and education leaders who are interested in leveraging equity-driven continuous improvement to address racial inequities, racism, and other forms of systemic oppression.
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Reimagining Excellence: A Blueprint for Integrating Social and Emotional Well-Being and Academic Excellence in Schools
Just as constructing a well-designed school building requires a blueprint, so does designing an effective and equitable learning program that addresses the needs of the
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Serving the Whole Person: An Alignment and Coherence Guide for State Education Agencies
This guide helps SEA leaders achieve greater alignment and coherence in their whole-person initiatives through an adaptable and guided process.
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Serving the Whole Person: An Alignment and Coherence Guide for Local Education Agencies
This guide helps local education agency (LEA) leaders achieve greater alignment and coherence in their whole-person initiatives through an adaptable and guided process.
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Ethnic Studies Legislation: State Scan
This scan summarizes recent legislative initiatives that require ethnic studies to be incorporated in the K–12 standards or curricula in 19 states.
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NGSS Instruction: A Powerful Lever for Equitable Learning, Language Development, and Learning in Other Subjects
This brief describes key results and takeaways from WestEd’s evaluation of the California NGSS K–8 Early Implementation Initiative.
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Anti-Racist Evaluation Strategies: A Guide for Evaluation Teams
This Anti-Racist Evaluation Strategies Guide was designed to help evaluators increase their awareness of racism that might be present in the course of an evaluation and to help teams employ strategies to conduct anti-racist evaluations.
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Preliminary Outcomes for California State University Students in Early Start Mathematics
This report examines the impact of recently updated "Early Start" offerings designed to prepare students for college-level mathematics in the California State University system.
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Articulating a Transformative Approach for Designing Tasks that Measure Young Learners’ Developing Proficiencies in Integrated Science and Literacy
In this paper, authors introduce an approach for designing NGSS-aligned assessments that measure young learners’ science progress.
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Developing Educator Expertise to Work with Adolescent English Learners Module 1: Introduction to Key Constructs
Explore how to build a common knowledge base to provide coherence to the field of educating English Learners in secondary schools.
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Students' Use of School-Based Telemedicine Service and Rates of Returning to Class After These Services in a Small Elementary School District
This study report, developed by REL West at WestEd, describes the first two years of implementation of school-based telemedicine services before the pandemic at one small elementary school district.
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Addressing the Needs of Students Experiencing Homelessness During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Highlights from the Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Solano County Offices of Education Bay Area Geographic Leads Consortium
This report explores how five Bay Area counties and local school districts pivoted to reach, teach, and support the holistic needs of students experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Arkansas School Finance Study
This report describes an education finance study WestEd conducted for the State of Arkansas and provides a set of seven recommendations to the State that reflect the study’s body of work.
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