Literacy in Middle and High School

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Who Repeats Algebra I, and How Does Initial Performance Relate to Improvement When the Course Is Repeated?

This study explores the prevalence of students repeating Algebra I, who is most likely to repeat the course, and the level of improvement for students who do repeat.

The study is based on six years of data from a cohort of 3,400 seventh grade students in a California school district.

Download a free copy of this Regional Educational Laboratory West study.

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

Helping Learners—Infants to Adults—Succeed

• Making Sense of SCIENCE (MSS) Facilitation Academies
  prepare staff developers, district science leaders, and other teacher educators to effectively lead an MSS course for teachers.
• Program for Infant/Toddler Care
  offers trainings for early childhood professionals designed to ensure that infants get a safe, healthy, emotionally secure, and intellectually rich start in life.
• Quality Teaching for English Learners Summer Institutes
  help teachers develop their professional expertise to engage English language learners and all other students in deep, transferable learning.
• Reading Apprenticeship
  offers a practitioner-tested and research-validated approach to increasing student engagement and achievement in subject area literacy for secondary and college levels.

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Core to College Evaluation: Statewide Networks—Connecting Education Systems and Stakeholders to Support College Readiness

Learn how statewide networks are influencing Common Core State Standards-focused innovation and reform efforts across K-12 and postsecondary education systems.

Included are considerations for Core to College member states and others looking to ensure that their higher education systems are engaged alongside their K-12 systems.

Download a free copy.

NEW RESOURCE CATALOG

Science & Mathematics Solutions for Schools and Districts

With the implementation of college and career readiness standards like the Next Generation Science Standards and the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, developing science and mathematic content knowledge and academic literacy is more important than ever for both teachers and students.

WestEd provides comprehensive and focused services as well as an array of publications and other resources.

Download or order a free copy of our 2015 Science & Mathematics Catalog.

Formative Assessment Task Banks for Science and Math, Grades 6–8
20% Discount

Augment existing curricula with formative assessment tasks that go beyond simple recall and encourage students to think and reason. Each of these ebooks contains 20 or more black line masters on the following science and math topics:

• Energy
• Matter
• Force & Motion
• The Number System
• Equations & Expressions

Center for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Fiscal Reporting: Improving Outcomes for Children and Youth With Disabilities

The Center for IDEA Fiscal Reporting (CIFR) at WestEd helps build the capacity of state education agencies (SEAs) in their federal special education fiscal data collection and reporting obligations.

SEAs receive general, targeted, and intensive support through knowledge development, tool and template development, and technical assistance and dissemination activities.

To learn more about this U.S. Office of Special Education Programs-funded initiative, visit the CIFR website.