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A positive school climate—where students feel a sense of safety and belonging and where trust prevails—improves academic achievement, test scores, grades, and engagement and helps reduce the negative effects of poverty on academic achievement. To bring about such environments, teachers, paraprofessionals, and school and district leaders must be prepared to create the school and classroom structures that encourage secure relationships.
Many states, districts, and schools are seeking to expand instruction to support higher-order thinking skills and are developing authentic performance assessments that measure student mastery on a deeper level.
The State Performance Assessment Learning Community (SPA-LC) is a national effort that supports states seeking to enact performance-based systems of assessment at scale.
Effective systems of accountability and continuous improvement support schools and districts in assessing progress, identifying needs, and overcoming barriers to teaching and learning.
On February 5th, the Learning Policy Institute and the National Urban League hosted a webinar entitled, “Using School Climate Data to Meet Student Needs" on how states are measuring, collecting, and reporting on a variety of school climate and social and emotional learning indicators under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
An overview of the 10 features needed to transform high school from the factory model to one supporting whole child learning, featuring examples from California schools.
Relationship-centered high school redesign fosters academic growth, emotional development, and student well-being. Experts discuss practical approaches to transform your educational setting in this insightful webinar.
Effective schools foster identity-safe environments where all students feel included. Experts discuss designing instructional strategies that celebrate diverse identities using culturally responsive practices and Universal Design for Learning as interrelated frameworks.
This series explores successful high school redesign efforts that move beyond outdated, factory-style education models. They will discuss key features of a whole child education framework that better prepare students for today's global workforce, featuring experts and practitioners leading research-based transformation efforts.
How high schools feature engaging, authentic curriculum and performance-based assessments can motivate and foster deeper learning. Schools that have designed curriculum and assessment connected to authentic inquiry were featured and educators discussed the structures and feedback they offer to support learners.
