A case study summarizing how California's school funding law, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), is being implemented in San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD).

A report to inform policymakers, practitioners, and teacher educators about the components of a strong, SEL-focused teacher preparation and development program.

A report about the April 2019 Aligning College and Career Pathway Systems for Equity symposium, in which participants identified the high priority problems of system alignment affecting equitable pathway development, and the specific research questions that need to be answered in order to guide policy and practice.

A profile of Mountain View School District's efforts to improve their arts education offerings, and the impacts these improvements had on students.

A profile of the performance assessment system at Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD), featuring a description of how it works and next steps for implementation.

A report about the November 2018 Leadership and Capacity Building in College and Career Pathways symposium, which focused on leadership and capacity-building and the research questions required to address problems of practice faced by pathway administrators, teachers, counselors, and other student support specialists.

A practical, comprehensive guide for advancing community schools strategies, including a framework for what makes a community school, messaging, model legislation, and further resources.

A report examining key questions around accountability for alternative schools.

A report examining how schools can use effective, research-based practices to create settings in which students’ healthy growth and development are central to the design of classrooms and the school as a whole.

A brief reviewing research demonstrating that student learning and development depend on affirming relationships operating within a positive school climate.

A data brief providing an enrollment snapshot of youth in the Continuation High Schools and district-operated Community Day Schools for youth over the age of 16 in the following California Unified School Districts: Long Beach, Los Angeles, Fresno, and Oakland.

An article in the Newsletter of the California Council on Teacher Education sharing four perspectives on strategies for preparing teachers for the modern classroom, including examples of the efforts and changes that teacher education programs should consider to meet the challenges of today.

A data brief providing an enrollment snapshot of youth in the Continuation High Schools and district-operated Community Day Schools for youth over the age of 16 in the following California Unified School Districts: Long Beach, Los Angeles, Fresno, and Oakland.

A handout advocating for what students and community members of Fresno Unified School District want to see in their Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP).

A website toolkit for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)'s Linked Learning Portfolio Defense, an assessment approach in which students assemble a portfolio of work that demonstrates how they've met the standards of the district's Graduate Profile.

A policy brief about how and why public school infrastructure remains the most regressive element of public education finance in the United States, published by the [Re]Build America's School Infrastructure Coalition (BASIC).

A handbook for state and local school leaders on engagement in school improvement efforts, including how to engage on needs assessments and priority-building, school improvement strategies, and resource alignment.

A summary of findings from a study examining whether and how Parent Teacher Home Visits helps to interrupt implicit biases that educators and families may have about each other.

A handbook for state and local education leaders that includes information about why engagement is essential to planning, strategies for making engagement more effective, and tools for building an engagement strategy.

A report tracking the distribution of $3.8 billion in local control funding formula (LCFF) funds in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) from 2013 to 2017.