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Connecting While Disconnected: Nurturing the Relationship Between Culture, Land, and Learners

Jul 28 2020
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Educators with the Hawaiian-focused charter schools have adapted their practices, grounded in Hawaiian culture and students’ relationship and responsibility to natural environments, to the constraints brought on by COVID-19. While nothing can replace the ocean voyages, agricultural work, and community service activities that are central elements of their “typical” school year, staff have developed new virtual ʻāina-based (land-based) activities and assessments to respond to the new reality of distance learning.

Topics Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment
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Assessing College Readiness Through Authentic Student Work

Michelle Fine

Karyna Pryiomka

Jul 21 2020
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Early data from a unique college admissions pilot program at City University of New York (CUNY) provide promising evidence on how colleges can expand admissions, better determine which students are likely to thrive, and potentially increase equity.

Topics Deeper Learning: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment, Deeper Learning: College, Career & Civic Participation
Blog

Making School Budgets Whole and Equitable During and After COVID-19

Michael A. DiNapoli Jr.

Jul 17 2020
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As federal policymakers craft future COVID-19 relief packages, two key questions should guide their analysis: First, what will it take to make school districts whole—that is, make sure they have sufficient funding to cover the myriad of added costs and budget cuts associated with COVID-19? And, how can federal funds be used to address historic and current inequities in ways that put us on a path toward a more just educational future?

Topic Equitable Resources and Access
Brief

Leveraging Resources Through Community Schools: The Role of Technical Assistance

Anna Maier

Sarah Klevan

Naomi Ondrasek

Jul 17 2020
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Community schools are an evidence-based approach to advance whole child education by offering integrated student supports, expanded and enriched learning time, family and community engagement, and collaborative leadership and practices. Local government and nonprofit agencies in two California counties—Los Angeles and Alameda—have effectively provided technical assistance to support community school initiatives. Evidence shows that technical assistance from county offices and nonprofit agencies can be a powerful element of successful community schools.

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design
Blog

In the Fallout of the Pandemic, Community Schools Show a Way Forward for Education

Jeannie Oakes

Anna Maier

Julia Daniel

Jul 07 2020
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COVID-19 has disrupted learning for nearly all of the country’s 50.8 million public schools students and those hit the hardest are the nation’s most marginalized students. During the disruption, community schools have proven to be highly effective at assessing needs and mobilizing supports for students and families. As policymakers look to the future, this is an approach they can consider.

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design
Report

Measuring Student Socioeconomic Status: Toward a Comprehensive Approach

Peter W. Cookson, Jr.

Jun 25 2020
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Student poverty was a concern in the U.S. even before the COVID-19 pandemic, when 1 in 5 children already lived in low-income families. This study evaluates the shortcomings of commonly used child poverty measures, including the Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program, and proposes alternatives.

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, Accountability and Improvement, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Blog

Raising Demands and Reducing Capacity: COVID-19 and the Educator Workforce

Tara Kini

Jun 25 2020
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We’re hearing a lot of conflicting scenarios and projections related to the teacher workforce come fall. Indicators of teacher demand and supply—including the number of teaching and other positions funded, the number required to deliver instruction safely, turnover rates, and the supply of new teachers coming out of teacher preparation programs—can help us begin to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the educator workforce.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
Video

Video Series: How Learning Happens

Jun 24 2020
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The How Learning Happens video series, created by Edutopia and featuring LPI President and CEO Linda Darling-Hammond and Pamela Cantor, MD, founder and senior science advisor of Turnaround for Children, explores how educators can integrate social, emotional, and academic skills to support and guide diverse learners.

Topics Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design
Blog

School-Based Health Centers: Trusted Lifelines in a Time of Crisis

Jun 18 2020
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Oakland Unified's school-based health centers, part of the district's full-service community schools initiative, are a trusted source of information and services for students and families in the district. This institutional trust is essential to providing care in "typical" times, and became even more critical when schools closed due to the COVID-19 crisis, enabling staff to identify and support both ongoing and emerging student and family needs.

Topics Deeper Learning, Equitable Resources and Access
Newsletter

Newsletter: June 2020

Jun 17 2020
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In this issue of the Reimagining College Access newsletter: RCA webinar series, higher education institutions across the nation are choosing to go test optional, new report on school profiles.

Topics Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: College, Career & Civic Participation, Deeper Learning: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

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Measuring Student Socioeconomic Status: Toward a Comprehensive Approach

Jun 25 2020

Student poverty was a concern in the U.S. even before the COVID-19 pandemic, when 1 in 5 children already lived in low-income families. This study evaluates the shortcomings of commonly used child poverty measures, including the Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program, and proposes alternatives.

Report

Supporting a Strong, Stable Principal Workforce: What Matters and What Can Be Done

May 14 2020

With nearly 1 in 5 principals leaving their schools each year, turnover is high and concerning. A new report and brief by LPI and the National Association of Secondary School Principals look at the causes, impacts, and strategies for principal retention.

Report

California’s Special Education Teacher Shortage

Feb 18 2020

A severe special education teacher shortage threatens the ability to improve outcomes for students with disabilities, who often have the greatest needs but receive the least expert teachers. LPI researchers review the factors contributing to special education teacher turnover and provide evidence-based policy strategies aimed at resolving the shortage.

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