Story / Case Study / Commentary
Encinal Students Featured on KQED’s Youth Takeover Week
KQED Inc.
A news story about a youth broadcasters from Encinal Jr. Sr. High School.
Topic: Teaching and Learning
Tool / Toolkit
Bilingual Teacher Shortage Threatens Students’ Bilingual Opportunity
California Budget & Policy Center
A fact sheet highlighting the shortage of bilingual education teachers in California, and emphasizing the importance of addressing this issue to ensure that all students, particularly those with home language assets, have access to an education that promotes biliteracy, offering cognitive benefits and increased competitiveness in the workforce.
Policy Brief/Proposal
California’s Major Investment in Universal Transitional Kindergarten
California Education Partners
A policy brief summarizing the challenges facing California's Universal Transitional Kindergarten (UTK), with recommendations for state policies that can align resources and support for high-quality implementation.
Tool / Toolkit
Toolkit for Transformation
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
A set of tools to help educators implement deeper learning activities with their students.
Research/Report
Learning Through Radical Partnership: Developing Leadership Capacity in Leadership Candidates, Current District Leaders, and University Partners
California State University Fullerton
An article exploring how a leadership preparation partnership between a university and an urban high school fosters learning across candidates, school district leaders, and partner faculty.
Webinar / Video / Podcast
The Future of Smart Podcast
Grantmakers for Education
A 17-episode series of podcasts exploring ideas at the intersection of education, equity, and philanthropy that point us towards a radical re-envisioning of our education system.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
Beyond Teacher Leadership: The Role of Teachers as Learners, Innovators, and Designers for Whole Child Education
University of South Carolina, College of Education
An exploratory case study sharing the stories and strategies of two school districts that are committed to student-led learning, community schooling, and whole child education as well as supporting teachers as leaders.
Research/Report
Educating for a Diverse Democracy in California: The Growing Challenges of Political Conflict and Hostile Behavior
University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
A brief examining the degree to which the partisan leaning of the communities surrounding schools is related to important social and political dynamics in the schools.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
The Principal 2.0: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact
Michael Fullan Enterprises Inc.
An updated edition of the 2014 book "The Principal," showing how the principal's role continues to change, alongside our changing world, and how we can embrace the transformation in short order.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
Creating universal school meals
California School Boards Association
A magazine story about about how schools in California are using innovative farms, from-scratch cooking, and local produce to ensure all students can access healthy, delicious food.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
The Case for Arts Education
Children Now
An opinion piece arguing for the importance of arts education, espeically for students of color.
Framework/Guide
Framework: Essentials for Community School Transformation
Learning Policy Institute
A framework and graphic that specifies the motivation, people, conditions, practices and infrastructure of Community Schools.
Framework/Guide
Model Procedures for the Identification, Voluntary Placement, and Induction of Students into Continuation High Schools in California
Stanford University Graduate School of Education, John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities
A model guide for the placement of students into California's continuation high schools developed by the California Advisory Task Force on Alternative Schools and co-sponsored by the Education Options Council of the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA).
Story / Case Study / Commentary
Science instruction needs the same attention as math and English
Children Now
An opinion piece arguing for increased attention on STEM learning opportunities for all school children, with an examination of career and higher education trends related to STEM.
Research/Report
New Guidance on Investing Federal Relief Funds to Address Absenteeism
Attendance Works
A summary of the December 2022 U.S. Department of Education guidelines for how local education agencies can use federal COVID-19 relief funds to address chronic absenteeism, lagging student engagement, and learning loss.
Webinar / Video / Podcast
All In
Big Picture Learning
A video that shows what happened when schools in northern California discovered Big Picture Learning.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
Labor-Management in Times of Crisis
Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation
A case study on labor-management response to the COVID-19 Pandemic at St. Helena Unified School District.
Research/Report
Where Are They Now? A Study of Dual Enrollment Students in the Kern Community College District
Foundation for California Community Colleges
A mixed methods study examining quantitative and qualitative outcomes for dual enrollment students in California's Central Valley region.
Tool / Toolkit
Quality Criteria for Systems of Performance Assessment for School, District, and Network Leaders
Learning Policy Institute
A tool to support school, district, and network leaders in examining their existing systems for evidence of the policies, structures, and features that enable the use of performance-based assessment in service of deeper learning for all students.
Research/Report
Improving Trauma-Informed Education: Responding to Student Adversity With Equity-Centered, Systemic Support
National Education Policy Center
A research brief exploring the promise and challenges of trauma-informed education, and why trauma-informed education may best be designed as a system-wide commitment rather than an intervention.