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Strategies to Build Leadership Team Capacity on Continuous Improvement and Intensive Interventions
This resource from the Region 7 Comprehensive Center describes strategies to build school leadership team capacity to implement a continuous improvement planning model and effectively use data to make informed instructional decisions. The first section details the research behind...
SEA Opportunities to Support Principals and School Leadership Teams
This resource from the Region 7 Comprehensive Center describes steps to create distributed school leadership teams and provides a range of strategies state education agencies (SEAs) can use to support principals and leadership teams. This paper cites research that...
State Guidance on Distance Learning During COVID-19: A Review of Four States’ Approaches
Considering how COVID-19 may impact the upcoming school year, members of the Region 7 Comprehensive Center (R7CC) Advisory Board requested information about best practices on distance and blended learning. In response to this inquiry, this Fast Response provides a...
A Practitioner’s Guide to Responding to COVID-19 Series: Predicting the Impact of COVID-19 on Out-of-School Learning Loss
In response to questions and concerns about COVID-19 from state leadership within Region 7, a series of annotated bibliographies was created to inform stakeholders about the potential impact of increased out-of-school time and possible strategies to mitigate harm to...
Best Practices on Distance and Blended Learning for Grades K–12 During COVID-19
Considering how COVID-19 may impact the upcoming school year, the Region 7 Comprehensive Center (R7CC) Advisory Board has requested information about best practices on distance and blended learning. In response to this inquiry, R7CC developed two Fast Response reports...
A Practitioner’s Guide to Responding to COVID-19 Series: Guides and Tools for State and Local School Administrators
In response to questions and concerns about COVID-19 from state leadership within Region 7, a series of annotated bibliographies was created to inform stakeholders about the potential impact of increased out-of-school time and possible strategies to mitigate harm to...
A Practitioner’s Guide to Responding to COVID-19 Series: Successful Initiatives that Offset Out-of-School Learning Loss
In response to questions and concerns about COVID-19 from state leadership within Region 7, a series of annotated bibliographies was created to inform stakeholders about the potential impact of increased out-of-school time and possible strategies to mitigate harm to...
A Practitioner’s Guide to Responding to COVID-19 Series: The Impacts of Extended Learning Programs on Academic Achievement
In response to questions and concerns about COVID-19 from state leadership within Region 7, a series of annotated bibliographies was created to inform stakeholders about the potential impact of increased out-of-school time and possible strategies to mitigate harm to...
Structured Literacy and Typical Literacy Practices: Understanding Differences to Create Instructional Opportunities
In this article, Louise Spear-Swerling discusses the key features of structured literacy (SL) beginning with explicit and systematic instruction. The article explains why SL is an effective way to teach children with dyslexia and students who struggle with learning...
Effective Strategies for Teaching the Alphabetic Principle
This infographic from the National Center on Improving Literacy provides a visual with explanations to illustrate how teachers can teach the alphabetic principle by connecting sounds, using background knowledge of letter sounds, and providing decodable texts for students to...
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