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 case study about the concept of Professional Capital in action at Long Beach Unified School District in California, describing the district's core strategies to create system coherence and cultivate professional capital.

A report focused on whole-child education approaches in secondary education, specifically looking at the initiatives that impact high school educators and students.

A peer-reviewed field report that describes how high school students from Richmond, California used the Youth - Plan, Learn, Act, Now (Y-PLAN) program to actively participate in the planning and transformation of their school, neighborhoods, and city.

A report examining the work of the Los Angeles Forum for Equity, a nonpartisan convening of community organizations, civic leaders, and scholars committed to schools that yield equitable results for Los Angeles students and families.

The Education Trust West's policy agenda for 2013.

A report examining the relationship between funding and student disadvantage and addresses questions about converting the current school finance system to a weighted pupil formula.