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  • Lee S. Shulman

    Senior Research Fellow
    Lee S. Shulman is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, President Emeritus of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, past president of the American Educational Research Association and a founder and past Co-director of the Institute for Research on Teaching at Michigan State University.

  • Marshall (Mike) Smith

    Senior Research Fellow
    Marshall (Mike) Smith was Under Secretary in the U.S. Department of Education from 1993 to 2000 and Acting Deputy Secretary from 1996 to 2000.

  • Deborah Stipek

    Senior Research Fellow
    Deborah Stipek is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Psychology at Stanford University and has served as Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

  • Joan Talbert

    Senior Research Fellow
    Joan Talbert is Senior Research Scholar and Co-director Emeritus of the Center for Research on the Context of Teaching in Stanford University’s School of Education, which she co-founded in 1987.

  • Steve Tozer

    Senior Research Fellow
    Steve Tozer is Professor Emeritus and past University Scholar in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), where he was founding Director of the UIC Center for Urban Education Leadership.

  • Guadalupe Valdés

    Senior Research Fellow
    Guadalupe Valdés is the Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University.

  • Tony Wagner

    Senior Research Fellow
    Tony Wagner served as founder and Co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was the first Innovation Education Fellow at Harvard’s Technology & Entrepreneurship Center. 

  • Roger P. Weissberg

    Senior Research Fellow
    Roger P. Weissberg is NoVo Foundation Endowed Chair in Social and Emotional Learning, Liberal Arts and Science Distinguished Professor, and Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Closing the Opportunity Gap: How Positive Outlier Districts in California Are Pursuing Equitable Access to Deeper Learning

Sep 10 2019
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This report examines the commonalities among seven diverse "positive outlier" school districts in which students are achieving at higher-than-predicted levels. The seven districts are among more than a hundred California school districts in which African American, Latino/a, and White students achieved at higher-than-predicted levels, controlling for their socioeconomic status.
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Preparing Teachers to Support Social and Emotional Learning

May 21 2019
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Well-implemented programs designed to foster social and emotional learning (SEL) are associated with positive outcomes, ranging from better test scores and higher graduation rates to improved social behavior. This LPI study examines San Jose State University's successful teacher preparation program and a California school district's in-service program that incorporate SEL instruction in an effort to inform policymakers, practitioners, and teacher educators about the components of strong, SEL-focused teacher preparation and development systems. 
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California’s Positive Outliers: Districts Beating the Odds

May 16 2019
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LPI studied 156 California school districts of significant size in which students of color, as well as White students, consistently achieve at higher levels than students from similar racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. What are these "positive outliers" doing to raise achievement and support students of all backgrounds?