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Online Research Compendium

Jun 05 2017
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This online research compendium summarizes studies and program evaluations referenced in the report, Community Schools as an Effective School Improvement Strategy: A Review of the Evidence. It is intended to serve as a resource for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers who are interested in the evidence base for community schools.

Topic Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design
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Event Video: Does Investing in Teacher Professional Development Make a Difference?

Jun 05 2017
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This event included a presentation of findings from an LPI review of research on professional development to advance student learning. It also featured a discussion by practitioners and policymakers on how federal, state, and local policy and resources can help support the implementation of high-quality professional learning opportunities for teachers.

Topics Educator Quality: Professional Learning, Educator Quality
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Event Video: Deeper Learning and Equity: Preparing All Students for the 21st Century

Nov 06 2016
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On Friday, November 6, 2015, in Washington, DC, the Learning Policy Institute and Jobs for the Future held a timely discussion of how U.S. schools can provide a more equitable and empowering education for all young people. The event featured a discussion of two reports recently released by Jobs for the Future.

Topic Deeper Learning
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Walking Alongside the Learner: Curriculum in Yvonne’s Pre-K Classroom

Sep 29 2016
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The High-Quality Early Learning Project | In this collection of videos, pre-k teacher Yvonne Smith explains how she supports young children to be thinkers and questioners through active experiences, interdisciplinary connections, and responsiveness to children’s diverse backgrounds, interests, and abilities. For more information on the High-Quality Early Learning Project, visit highqualityearlylearning.org.

Topic Early Childhood Learning
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Understanding Teacher Shortages 2016

Sep 15 2016
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How states experience the teacher shortage depends on their unique mix of policies, conditions, and even cost of living. This interactive map provides a state-by-state look at key indicators of teacher supply and demand and the equitable distribution of teachers. States and the District of Columbia receive a teaching attractiveness rating, based on compensation, teacher turnover, working conditions, and qualifications, and a teacher equity rating, based on the distribution of uncertified and inexperienced teachers.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
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Event Video: The Road to High-Quality Early Learning: Lessons From the States

Jun 29 2016
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Policymakers and researchers gathered in Washington, DC, to attend the forum The Road to High-Quality Early Learning: Lessons From the States to discuss how four states—Michigan, North Carolina, Washington, and West Virginia—devised a set of strategies for delivering high-quality early childhood education programs at scale.

Topic Early Childhood Learning
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Event Video: Improving Quality in California’s Early Childhood Education System

Feb 29 2016
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The Learning Policy Institute released its California policy brief, The Building Blocks of High-Quality Early Childhood Education Programs, at a convening co-hosted by Early Edge California and Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) in Sacramento.

Topic Early Childhood Learning
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Event Video: California’s Emerging Teacher Shortage: New Evidence and Policy Responses

Jan 19 2016
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This conference, co-sponsored by the Learning Policy Institute, Policy Analysis for California Education, and the Education Policy Center at AIR, featured new evidence on the scale of California’s teacher shortage, with a particular focus on already critical shortages of teachers in specific fields and regions. Policymakers, researchers, and educators participated in panel discussions on teacher recruitment, preparation, and retention.

Topic Educator Quality

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The Power of Performance Assessments: Oakland Unified’s Graduate Capstone Project

Oct 26 2017

In the Oakland Unified School District, a yearlong Graduate Capstone Project provides an opportunity for students to research, analyze, and become experts in a topic of their own choosing. LPI’s video shows how this complex project, which is used as a districtwide performance assessment, is building students’ ownership of their own learning and helping them develop and use critical thinking and communication skills.

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Video Series: Reflections on Oakland’s Graduate Capstone Project

Oct 26 2017

Oakland students, teachers, and school and district administrators reflect on the district’s Graduate Capstone Project and its impact on teaching and learning. This rigorous, yearlong performance assessment culminates with a research paper and a formal presentation before teachers, school staff, and members of the community.

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In Their Own Words: Policymakers and Practitioners on Teacher Shortages

Oct 19 2017

Speaking on a panel at a recent LPI forum on teacher turnover, Newark school science teacher Antonio Iglesias described turnover at his school as being “like Defense of the Dark Arts in Harry Potter…every year it's a new teacher.” At the event, district and state policymakers, students, and researchers echoed his sentiments and described the ways in which teacher turnover affects students, schools, communities, and states, and what must be done to solve it.

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