Topic: Leadership for Instructional Improvement
Resources

Partnering for Success: How One SEA Built Capacity to Support Effective Educator Practice
This “impact 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. ...

The Alabama Coaching Framework: Ensuring a Single Approach to Coaching
This “impact story” illustrates how the Region 7 Comprehensive Center supported the Alabama State Department of Education in developing its universal coaching framework....

Improving Teacher Performance Through Instructional Coaching
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...

Raising Community Program Perception/Awareness
This resource provides an overview of how districts can gather data on parent communication preferences and improve community engagement. The document pulls from multiple sources and includes exemplary district links and profiles....

Advocating for the Literacy Needs of Children
This toolkit from the National Center on Improving Literacy provides guidance on how and what to advocate for in children’s literacy needs, as well as resources for workshop sessions, problem-solving, research briefs, and infographics. It also serves as a...

Building Better PL: How to Strengthen Teacher Learning
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...

The Mississippi High-Dosage Tutoring Playbook
This playbook from the Mississippi Department of Education provides guidance in the effective implementation of a high-dosage tutoring program, including considerations for tutor training, student and subject selection, and scheduling....

Flipping the Readiness Paradigm: Tailoring Programs to Address the Achievement Gap and Teacher Shortages in High-Need Schools
This special issues brief from the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders discusses five strategies for leveraging mentoring and induction to meet the challenges of high-need schools....

District Strategies to Reduce Student Absenteeism
This brief from EdResearch for Recovery categorizes evidence-based strategies for reducing student absenteeism into three tiers: reaching all students with broad-based and preventative supports, targeting students with signs of risks, and responding to chronic absence with coordinated supports. The...

Rhode Island Science of Reading and Structured Literacy: Resource Bank for Syllabi Refinement
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....