Resources
Making Sense of Data-Driven Decision Making in Education
by RAND Corporation
Partners in Learning: From Conflict to Collaboration in Secondary Classrooms
ESR National Center
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Good teaching not only supports the intellectual development of adolescents--it nourishes their spirits and touches their hearts. Partners in Learning is an essential tool for helping secondary classroom teachers make this happen. Partners in Learning is a practical and hands-on guide organized around ten core practices that will enable students and teachers to work together toward common learning goals. Each practice includes classroom-tested tools, strategies, and routines that make a positive difference in students' motivation to learn and succeed. This guide also includes a chapter on classroom management and discipline, a guide for setting up the classroom to support these practices, and a detailed plan for integrating community building, student orientation, and course content into the first month of school. With hundreds of activities and tips, this guide is an essential for every high school classroom teacher.
Reference in Bibliography of Michigan High School Initiative:
Student Support And Interventions Action Team Report
Gaining Traction, Gaining Ground: How Some High Schools Accelerate Learning for Struggling Students
November, 2005, Washington, DC: The Education Trust, School Redesign
http://www2.edtrust.org/EdTrust/Product+Catalog/recentreports
Report of practices of public high schools that serve high concentrations of low-income or minority children and have a strong record of accelerating learning for students who enter high school below grade level. Compares and contrasts the practices of high-impact schools with schools that have only average impact on student performance.
Resources Lists BY STRAND
Strand I – Teaching for Learning
Standards-Based Instruction for All Learners: A Treasure Chest for Principal-Led Building Teams in Improving Results for Learners Most At-Risk
Ohio’s Treasure Chest contains strategies and techniques for building capacity in schools through discussion of best practices in linking assessment, standards and instruction, so that all children can achieve at high levels.
Standards-Based Instruction for All Learners (PDF)
Guide for School Leaders - companion guide (PDF)
Schools Moving Up: A West Ed Initiative
Schools Moving Up has resource materials and free webcasts about a variety of teaching for learning topics. The webcasts and associated materials are archived for offline use.
Effective Schools (Dr. Larry Lezotte)
http://www.effectiveschools.com/freestuff.asp
(Scroll down to "The Fundamentals of Effective Schools" and click the download links.)
Strand IV – School and Community Relations
Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE)
Part of the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP)
FINE’s free membership includes toolkits, monthly announcements of current ideas and new resources; research, evaluation, and training tools; program models and perspectives on family involvement.
Taking a Closer Look: A Guide to Online Resources on Family Involvement (free download)
by Heather B. Weiss, et al, Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE)/ Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP)
This resource guide contains annotated Web links to recent (published in and after 2000) research, information, and tools about family involvement.
National Network of Partnership Schools Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Searchable databases of Promising Partnership Practices; newsletters that share examples of featured practices of school-family-community partnerships, guidelines for incremental improvement in program development; research briefs; and a variety of other materials useful for those planning partnerships.
School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action
Book
by Joyce L. Epstein, Mavis G. Sanders, Beth S. Simon, Karen Clark Salinas, Natalie Rodriguez Jansorn & Frances L. Van Voorhis
This guide includes new research summaries and useful tools for developing and evaluating programs of family and community involvement.
National PTA | Michigan PTSA
The National PTA in collaboration with parent involvement researchers and other national leaders developed the National Standards for Parent/ Family Involvement Programs.
Coalition for Community Schools
The web site offers a Toolkit for planning, launching and sustaining community schools; and resources on community-based learning and ways to engage and motivate students.
Communities in Schools
Communities In Schools helps students stay in school and make right choices by connecting schools with needed community resources. By bringing resources, services, parents, and volunteers into schools, the programs create a community of caring adults who work hand in hand with educators.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
http://www.learningpt.org
NCREL’s web site provides high-quality, research-based resources to educators and policymakers in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk
Johns Hopkins University and Howard University
The web site contains research on educational improvement, as well as programs in these areas: Early & Elementary Studies, Middle & High School Studies, School, Family & Community Partnerships and Systemic Supports for School Reform
