• 9 Characteristics of High Performing Schools (Not ESL specific)
  The second edition of the Nine Characteristics of High-Performing Schools maintains the original characteristics and definitions. It adds information from about 120 new research and professional references, as well as relevant OSPI documents, to help educators deepen their understanding of the characteristics, and it provides additional strategies for expanding implementation. This resource list provides the names of key websites, books, reports, and articles that can be used to help schools improve in each of the characteristics of high-performing schools.
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• A Handbook for Improving Education for ELLs Through Comprehensive School Reform
  The Ed. Alliance Brown University This handbook provides support for Comprehensive School Reform and NCLB in ways that address the needs of ELLs
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• Claiming Opportunities: A Handbook for Improving Education for English Language Learners Through Comprehensive School Reform
  View and print Handbook from The Ed. Alliance at Brown Un.(2003) Maria Coady, Edmund T. Hamann, Margaret Harrington, Maria Pacheco, Samboeun Pho, Jane YedlinClaiming Opportunities provides information, strategies, and tools that support the Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) program, as presented in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. The handbook is designed to help administrators in making schools more responsive and responsible for English language learners (ELLs). It presents existing research on both CSR and ELL educational reform and suggests how the two educational improvement efforts can be integrated.
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• A Cord of Three Strands: A New Approch for Parent Engagement
  Chicago example of how low-income, non-English-speaking parents become advocates, leaders, and role models in their children’s schools.. A Cord of Three Strands by Soo Hong offers a close study of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, a grassroots organization on the northwest side of Chicago, whose work on parent engagement has drawn national attention.
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• A Reader's Guide to Scientifically Based Research
  Educational Leadership February 2003 | Volume 60 | Number 5 Using Data to Improve Student Achievement Pages 12-16 Robert E. Slavin Learning how to assess the validity of education research is vital for creating effective, sustained reform.
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• Big Ideas for Better Schools
  Edutopia George Lucas Educational Foundation summarizes the 10 characteristics of effective education based on 14 years of investigating the topic.
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• Bilingual Research Journal Online Spring 2002 Vol. 26 No. 1
  Successful Bilingual Education Programs: Development and the Dissemination of Criteria to Identify Promising and Exemplary Practices in Bilingual Education at the National Level María Robledo Montecel and Josie Danini Cortez Intercultural Development Research Association
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• Center on Innovation and Improvement
  This site provides research and resources related to school improvement. it includes information, tools, and training for states, schools and districts. Rec. by John Hilliard
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• LAB at Brown: Teaching Diverse Learners -- Policy
  This Web site is devoted to exploring current language and educational policies with emphasis on how these policies can be put into practice.
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• SchoolsMovingUp - WestED Webinars
  SchoolsMovingUp, a WestEd initiative, helps schools and districts address the challenge of raising student achievement. In an interactive web format, SchoolsMovingUp offers resources to help education professionals make sound decisions and take action in their school reform efforts.
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• WestEd: Inside High School Reform: Making the Changes That Matter
  Reported here are the conclusions from formal evaluations over the past ten years of high school reform shepherded by the California Academic Partnership Program (CAPP). CAPP schools are each funded for three to five years, with grants of about $100,000 a year, to make fundamental changes for their students. As these schools discovered, not all changes are equally valuable, but some are simply essential. Inside High School Reform lays out some of the apparently universal lessons of making the reform changes that matter.
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• High School Reform
  Recommended by ASCD SMART Register now to receive a copy of our new High School Reform White Paper. After completing the form, you will be provided a link which you can use to download the document.(I haven't read.)
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• WestEd I nside High School Reform: Making the Changes That Matter
  Book by Jordan Horowitz, California Academic Partnership Program This book goes inside the reform efforts of 28 high schools where educators collaborated to fundamentally change expectations for students — in effect, to prepare all students for postsecondary education. They found some changes to be critical. (I haven't read but recommended by West ED.
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• Archived -- Raising the Educational Achievement of Secondary School Students
  Volume 1; Adapting Organizations to Increase Lea
  Successful secondary schools develop new organizational arrangements to support innovations in teaching and learning.
  2000 act america educate education goals learning opportunities reform restructuring school school-to-work schools secondary
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• High school reform need vocational ed
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• Turnaround Schools (online only)
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