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Early Childhood Essentials: A Framework for Aligning Child Skills and Educator Competencies

Oct 15 2019
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Providing high-quality early learning experiences is complex work. This infographic presents a framework for the essential skills and competencies children should acquire before they enter kindergarten and the related skills and competencies early childhood educators must cultivate in order to provide the high-quality early learning that will set all children on the path to success in school and in life.

Topic Early Childhood 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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National Principals Month: Developing Effective Principals is Crucial to Student Success

Oct 08 2018
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Effective principals are essential to improving student achievement and narrowing achievement gaps. The Learning Policy Institute’s series of infographics explores why effective principals matter, what they do, and how programs can develop successful principals.
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Infographic Series: Community Schools as an Effective School Improvement Strategy

Dec 14 2017
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While community schools vary in the programs they offer and the ways they operate, four features—or pillars—appear in most community schools: integrated student supports, expanded learning time and opportunities, family and community engagement, and collaborative leadership and practice. These infographics examine each pillar to provide a look at community schools in action.

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, Accountability and Improvement, Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: College, Career & Civic Participation, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design
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Infographic Series: Supporting Principals’ Learning

Jun 22 2017
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Principals play a central role in creating schools in which students thrive academically and the teaching staff is strong, stable, and supported. These graphics highlight the reasons principals matter, what education leaders can accomplish, and what constitutes effective preparation and professional development programs.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Professional Learning, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
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How High-Quality Principal Preparation and Development Pays Off for Students, Schools, and States

Feb 27 2017
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Financial investments in high-quality principal training yields substantial benefits in student achievement, as well as teacher quality and retention. States can invest in high-quality principals by using federal funds available under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for teacher and school leader development in addition to state funds. By supporting effective preparation and development programs, policymakers can increase the odds that students are in schools led by well-prepared principals.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Professional Learning, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
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The Four Pillars of Opportunity: Bridging Equity Through the Every Student Succeeds Act

Dec 07 2016
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The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) represents an opportunity for states, districts, and schools to equitably design education systems to ensure that historically underserved students are prepared for the demands of the 21st century. This graphic highlights four major areas that can be leveraged by policymakers, educators, researchers, and advocates to advance equity in education for all students.

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Deeper Learning
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Why Do Teachers Leave?

Sep 15 2016
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Increasing the number of teachers entering the profession is one strategy for reducing the teacher shortage, but we also need to address the persistent problem of teacher turnover. Each year, more than 200,000 teachers leave the profession, with nearly two out of three leaving for reasons other than retirement. This infographic describes the factors contributing to the teacher exodus.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention

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

Sep 10 2019

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

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

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?

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