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California Community Schools Partnership Program: A Transformational Opportunity for Whole Child Education

Anna Maier,

Deanna Niebuhr

Oct 22 2021
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A historic $3 billion investment in the California Community Schools Partnership Program provides an opportunity to transform schools into community hubs that deliver whole child education. Examining key elements of the new law, LPI and Opportunity Institute researchers lay out evidence-based principles of high-quality community schools implementation that are aligned with the science of learning and development and discuss the need for technical assistance.

Topics Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design, Deeper Learning
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Reopening Schools Safely in California: District Examples of Multilayered Mitigation

Naomi Ondrasek,

Adam K. Edgerton ,

Jennifer A. Bland

Oct 11 2021
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Schools across California have reopened for in-person learning, undertaking the challenging but crucial work of ensuring student safety. Examining multiple districts across the state, LPI researchers provide important models and key lessons for safe school reopening. As their work demonstrates, schools implementing multilayered mitigation strategies can stay open safely, minimize further disruptions to learning, and ensure that students can focus on their education and reconnecting to their school community.

Topic COVID-19
Report

Preparing West Virginia’s Teachers

Ryan Saunders

Oct 06 2021
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Teachers play a vital role in providing all students with deeper learning experiences that prepare them for life and work in the 21st century. In West Virginia, several key policy strategies have been identified to improve and advance the preparation of a well-qualified and equitably distributed teacher workforce across the state.

Topics Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality, Deeper Learning: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment
Article

Motivating Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers to Stay In the Field

Conra D. Gist,

Travis J. Bristol,

Desiree Carver-Thomas,

Maria E. Hyler,

Linda Darling-Hammond

Sep 16 2021
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Teachers of color and Indigenous teachers made up 16% of the teaching force in 2000 and 19% in 2019. This modest increase would have been more significant if not for high (and growing) attrition rates among these teachers. This article from a Kappan Special Report examines why teachers of color and Indigenous teachers leave the profession and what can be done to retain them.

Topics Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality, Equitable Resources and Access
Newsletter

Newsletter: September 2021

Sep 14 2021
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In this issue of the Reimagining College Access newsletter: Updates on activities from regional RCA initiatives, the latest national news on performance assessment, and recent research and updates to the Common App.

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

Reinvention in Recovery

Adam K. Edgerton ,

Linda Darling-Hammond

Sep 01 2021
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Many educators developed creative and effective strategies to teach their students by using technology in a variety of ways during the COVID-19 pandemic. As schools return to in-person learning, effective uses of technology should not disappear. Instead, they should become a foundation for students to engage in learning with other students in the classroom and beyond.

Topics COVID-19, Equitable Resources and Access
Article

What Will It Take to Promote Whole-Child Development, Learning, and Thriving at Scale?

Linda Darling-Hammond

Sep 01 2021
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Many educators seeking to transform schools to allow more student-centered, inquiry-driven, and community-connected approaches to whole child learning face a wide range of institutional barriers. Nevertheless, thousands of schools have been redesigned to promote more student-centered principles, and these schools have created networks that provide schools with models for adopting methods that nurture the whole child.

Topics Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design
Blog

Ending the Masking Wars: The Path to Ensuring Our Children Are Safe and Well-Educated This Year

Linda Darling-Hammond

Aug 31 2021
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Many students, families, and teachers looked forward to in-person learning this fall, but now find themselves on a pandemic roller coaster as the school year opens with a surge of COVID-19 cases. It is critical that we follow the available science so that we can protect students and ensure their education.

Topic COVID-19
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Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez High School: A Community School That Honors Its Neighborhood’s Legacy of Educational Justice

Charlie Thompson

Aug 26 2021
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Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez High School, a community school located in East Los Angeles, provides its students with rigorous and engaging academics in a nurturing and inclusive environment. Driven by a shared commitment to educational justice and building strong, community-grounded partnerships, the school prioritizes student engagement and leadership, both on and off the campus.

Topics Deeper Learning, Equitable Resources and Access
Blog

Back to School: Lessons Learned About Safe School Reopening

Naomi Ondrasek,

Adam K. Edgerton

Aug 18 2021
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Although schools are reopening on the shifting sands of COVID-19 variants and low vaccination rates in some regions, they can resume in-person classes in a safe and supportive manner using science-based mitigation approaches, such as masking and social distancing, and by attending to student and teacher social and emotional needs.

Topic COVID-19

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Improving Education the New Mexico Way: An Evidence-Based Approach

Dec 01 2020

In New Mexico, children and young people who face barriers to school success from poverty and marginalization are the norm, not the exception. A year-long study from LPI is designed to provide New Mexico policymakers, stakeholders, leaders, and other interested parties a research perspective on the challenges facing education in the state and to identify evidence-based policies that could build a high-quality, equitable system.

Report

Sustainable Strategies for Funding Teacher Residencies: Lessons From California

Nov 12 2020

High-quality teacher residencies have the potential to address workforce challenges, including teacher shortages, underprepared educators, and, when adequately funded, workforce diversity. In 2018-19, California provided seed funding to jump-start or scale such programs. Recognizing that state funding may not always be reliable, programs are also working toward greater financial sustainability. This report examines the current state of teacher residencies in California and strategies these programs use to sustain funding, particularly in the wake of COVID-19.

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Elementary School Principals' Professional Learning: Current Status and Future Needs

Oct 27 2020

Research has found that high-quality professional learning opportunities for principals can build leadership capacity. This study reports on findings from a survey of elementary school principals on access to high-quality professional learning. The survey showed that, while most had access to professional development, far fewer were able to participate in authentic learning opportunities addressing deeper learning, student well-being, and equity.

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