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Sanger Unified School District: Positive Outliers Case Study

Joan Talbert,

Jane L. David

Sep 10 2019
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Sanger Unified School District (USD) serves approximately 12,000 students in California’s Central Valley. Seventy-three percent are from low-income families, 70% are Latino/a, and 18% are English learners. By developing a culture of continuous improvement and an instructional regime of direct instruction, Sanger USD has become one of California’s “positive outlier” districts in which students performed better than predicted on California state tests from 2015 through 2017.

Topics Deeper Learning, Educator Quality, Equitable Resources and Access
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San Diego Unified School District: Positive Outliers Case Study

Laura E. Hernández,

Anne Podolsky

Sep 10 2019
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San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) supports teaching and learning in California’s second-largest school district. Nearly three quarters of SDUSD students are students of color, almost 60% of students are economically disadvantaged, and 24% are English learners. SDUSD has excelled at supporting the learning of all students, making it one of California’s “positive outlier” districts in which students performed better than predicted on California state tests from 2015 through 2017.

Topics Deeper Learning, Educator Quality, Equitable Resources and Access
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Closing the Opportunity Gap: How Positive Outlier Districts in California Are Pursuing Equitable Access to Deeper Learning

Dion Burns,

Linda Darling-Hammond,

Caitlin Scott

Sep 10 2019
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Supporting the achievement of all students requires a strong commitment to equity, ensuring a stable high-quality educator workforce, providing access to professional development, and a focus on deeper learning and social and emotional learning. Seven California school districts provide examples of successful approaches to this work.

Topics Deeper Learning, Equitable Resources and Access, Educator Quality
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Investing for Student Success: Lessons from State School Finance Reforms

Linda Darling-Hammond

Aug 05 2019
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Equitable and empowering educational opportunities are increasingly important to the survival and success of individuals, economies, and societies, but today, U.S. public schools are the most inequitably funded of any in the industrialized world. Some states, however, have had some success addressing those inequities. Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and North Carolina have substantially improved learning opportunities and there are lessons to be learned from their efforts.

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Professional Learning, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality: Evaluation & Career Development
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Principal Turnover: Insights from Current Principals

Stephanie Levin,

Kathryn Bradley,

Caitlin Scott

Jul 18 2019
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High quality principals are essential to students' educational opportunities and outcomes, but principal turnover is an ongoing problem in the United States. A 2017 survey of public school principals found that approximately 18% had left their position since the previous year. In high poverty schools, the turnover rate was 21%. This brief includes insights, experiences, and expertise from school leaders on the challenges associated with being a school principal and strategies to address those challenges.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Professional Learning, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality: Evaluation & Career Development
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Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning

Linda Darling-Hammond,

Jeannie Oakes,

Steve Wojcikiewicz,

Maria E. Hyler,

Roneeta Guha,

Anne Podolsky,

Tara Kini,

Channa Cook-Harvey,

Charmaine Mercer,

Akeelah Harrell

Jun 10 2019
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Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning summarizes a recent book of the same name that describes the work of pioneering teacher education programs to prepare their graduates to create personalized, inquiry-based learning for all students. They provide examples for teachers, teacher educators, and policymakers interested in making preparation for deeper learning the standard for today's teachers. The programs are also profiled separately in individual briefs which provide more detail.

Topics Educator Quality, Deeper Learning
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Preparing Teachers to Support Social and Emotional Learning

Hanna Melnick,

Lorea Martinez

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.

Topics Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment, Educator Quality: Professional Learning
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Ways That Social-Emotional Learning Can Be Integrated Throughout the School Day

May 21 2019
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When SEL is a key pillar of the school’s mission, teachers and leaders understand that SEL should be integrated into every aspect of the school, from explicit classroom instruction and infusion into academic content to school climate and culture. In this case, teachers can continue to grow their practices as they collaborate, learn from each other, and use SEL data to make instructional decisions, with the ultimate goal of nurturing students’ social, emotional, and academic learning.

Topic Deeper Learning
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California’s Positive Outliers: Districts Beating the Odds

Anne Podolsky,

Linda Darling-Hammond,

Christopher Doss,

sean reardon

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?

Topics Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design, Equitable Resources and Access
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California’s Positive Outliers: Districts Beating the Odds

Anne Podolsky,

Linda Darling-Hammond,

Christopher Doss,

sean reardon

May 16 2019
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California’s Positive Outliers: Districts Beating the Odds analyzes scores of students in 435 school districts scores on California’s new assessments in English language arts and math. From this group, 156 “positive outlier” districts of significant size—where White, African American, and Hispanic students achieve at higher than predicted levels relative to their socioeconomic status—were identified. What in-school factors made the most difference in student achievement?

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

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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.

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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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