The National Charter School Resource Center provides a variety of tools and resources to support charter schools. Most recently, the center has developed a two-part learning experience consisting of a series of modules and podcasts designed to help charter schools provide English learners with high-quality instruction and assessment practices.
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CCSSO Call to Action and “Science of Reading” Podcast
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) report–A Nation of Readers: How State Chiefs Can Help Every Child Learn to Read–is a call to action for state leaders to support evidence-based reading instructional practices, impact student reading development, and close reading gaps. For additional insight, The Education Trust podcast interviews reading researcher and National Reading Panel (NRP) lead, Timothy […]
Why High-Quality Instructional Materials Matter: Interview with Dr. Jared Myracle
Coaching the Most Important Teams – Interview with Kristen Wells-Wynn
Progress Monitoring: Reading
This Progress Monitoring: Reading professional learning module builds educator knowledge in how to generate useful feedback for gauging independent student reading development over time within the elementary classroom. Provided by the IRIS Center at Vanderbilt University, the module entails approximately two hours of self-study with optional credit and micro-credentialing features. Users consider the guiding questions, watch numerous brief video clips, […]