Topic: Academic Standards

This story details how the Region 7 Comprehensive Center supported the Mississippi Department of Education in improving its Professional Growth System and building statewide capacity to support its effective use and then built upon its success and lessons learned...

This “impact story” illustrates how the Region 7 Comprehensive Center supported the Alabama State Department of Education in developing its universal coaching framework....

This IES infographic provides a brief overview of the definition of instructional coaching as well as the contributions of effective coaching to improving teacher capacity and student outcomes. It also includes a visual summary of the coaching cycle and...

This R7CC-developed rubric is based on Evidence for ESSA Standards and Procedures to identify research study evidence of program and practice effectiveness, meeting ESSA levels of evidence standards....

This brief reviews recent research and promising practices to identify important considerations for the how (features and formats) and what (content) of professional learning. Identified features and formats include peer collaboration, coaching, and follow-up meetings. Brief authors encouraged targeting...

This brief shares findings from 122 interviews and a review of secondary resources about the current state of curriculum-based professional learning. Findings are organized based on Bridgespan’s field-building framework and provide recommendations for building the knowledge base, “actors,” and...

This tool includes identified resources that educator preparation programs, districts/schools, and professional development providers can use to build educator awareness and apply research-based literacy practices....

This IES infographic summarizes several research findings related to diversity in the teacher workforce. It also includes recommendations for promising strategies related to recruiting and retaining a more diverse pool of classroom teachers....

This infographic provides a brief overview of how teachers, administrators, and policymakers can use the What Works Clearinghouse site to explore literacy resources. It also provides links to practice guides, study reviews, and other What Works Clearinghouse tools....

This brief from EdResearch for Recovery offers design principles to improve practice with instructional coaching based on a review of research. This short brief includes links to research as well as key considerations for designing an evidence-based coaching program....