Focused on improving classroom instruction for all adolescent learners as well as providing intervention instruction for students struggling with reading proficiency, this guidance document includes recommendations for improving adolescent student outcomes in academic literacy at the state-, district-, and school-levels. The document is organized into sections highlighting instruction and intervention, insights from reading experts and examples of various state efforts […]
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Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools
This meta-analysis offers specific research-based teaching techniques for improving the writing proficiency of students in Grades 4–12. Eleven strategies are highlighted in the report including summarization, collaborative writing, prewriting, and inquiry activities as well as writing for the content areas. The premise of this report focuses on the need of all students, not just those that may have been identified […]
Science of Learning: What Educators Need to Know about Adolescent Development
This report provides an overview of the wide range of factors that impact adolescent learners, including physiological and cognitive components. It is one of a series of reports highlighting principles of adolescent learning and development as well as key findings important in maximizing student achievement, especially in those populations that have been historically underserved in education. These principles were developed […]
State Scan of Professional Learning Activities: CSAI Update
This brief from the Center on Standards & Assessment Implementation (CSAI) provides a summary of six states’ standards implementation practices related to providing professional learning activities for educators on new academic standards. States included in the scan are: Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Information provided includes the delivery method, intended audience, and frequency of the professional […]
Meet the Promise of Content Standards: The Principal
This report provides action steps that principals can take in five areas to support strong standards implementation in their schools. The five areas aligned to the Wallace Foundation’s research on essential principal practices associated with increasing student achievement are: Shaping a vision of academic success for all students; Creating a hospitable climate; Cultivating leadership in others; Improving instruction; and Managing […]