Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center
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Teaching and Learning
Schools that flourish use innovative instructional approaches for all students, including English language learners, students with disabilities, and low-achieving students. The NWCC provides technical assistance to build Northwest states’ capacity to identify and scale up the exceptional work of schools and districts whose approaches to teaching and learning are improving student outcomes.
The following resources related to this priority area have been compiled by NWCC staff.
Resources
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Quakertown Community School District: A Systematic Approach to Blended Learning That Focuses on District Leadership, Staffing, and Cost-effectiveness The Alliance for Excellent Education released the first in a series of interactive video profiles highlighting innovative school districts that utilize digital learning to improve teaching and learning. This interactive video profile of the Quakertown Community School District (QCSD) provides readers with a real-life, practical story about how district and school leaders are working to improve student learning outcomes through the effective use of digital learning. |
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The School Principal as Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and Learning: Expanded Edition The Wallace Foundation released a brief summarizing a decade of foundation research and work in school leadership to identify what it is that effective school principals do. |
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Expanding Evidence Approaches for Learning in a Digital World The U.S. Department of Education released a report focusing on evidence approaches that can be used individually or in combination to design education research and gather and analyze evidence produced by the vast amounts of data generated as teachers and students use digital learning systems. |
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Building the Foundation: A Suggested Progression of Sub-skills to Achieve the Reading Standards: Foundational Skills in the Common Core State Standards The Center on Instruction released a paper based on an analysis that determined the sub-skills students need to achieve in each of the Foundational Skills (K–5) in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). |
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Choosing Blindly: Instructional Materials, Teacher Effectiveness, and the Common Core The Brookings Institution released a report stating that while evidence shows that instructional materials have large effects on student learning, little research exists on the effectiveness of most instructional materials, and very little systematic information has been collected on which materials are being used in which schools. |
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Connecting High-Quality Expanded Learning Opportunities and the Common Core State Standards to Advance Student Success The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released a brief exploring ways to strengthen expanded learning opportunities (ELOs) by building their connection to the Common Core State Standards Initiative. |
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Preparation of Effective Teachers in Mathematics The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center) has released a paper applying the recommendations of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel (2008) to the practice of preparing and developing highly effective mathematics teachers. |
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Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource for State Dialogue The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) has recently released new draft standards comprising a set of principles of effective teaching. The new standards are revised from the 1992 model standards in response to new visions for teaching. This document is being distributed as a draft for public comment. |
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A Resource Guide Identifying Technology Tools for Schools This guide by The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and the National Association of State Title I Directors (NASTID) provides definitions of key technology components and relevant examples, where appropriate as a glossary for educators. |
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The Promise and the Power of Distance Learning in Rural Education This paper focuses on the applicability and potential of two-way interactive television (I-TV) for small and rural K-12 schools as a primary asset in improving educational access and equity and calls for the adoption of enlightened distance learning policies and guidelines at the state and local levels. |
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Adolescent Literacy Resources: An Annotated Bibliography (2nd Ed.) The Center on Instruction released the second edition of its annotated bibliography on adolescent literacy. Updated from a 2007 edition, the bibliography is intended as a resource for technical assistance providers as they work with states on adolescent literacy. |
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Adolescent Literacy Walk-Through for Principals: A Guide for Instructional Leaders The Center on Instruction recently released a guide designed to help principals monitor and support adolescent literacy instruction in their schools more effectively. The guide can be used at the late elementary school level, in content-area classes in middle and high school, and with intervention groups or classes. |