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Direct linkJennifer Lin Russell; Anthony S. Bryk; Donald J. Peurach; Jennifer Zoltners Sherer; Megan Duff; David Sherer; Chris Matthis – Peabody Journal of Education, 2025
Improvement networks are a novel organizational form designed to support collaborative, interorganizational learning and improvement aimed at solving complex, interdependent problems spanning classrooms, schools, systems, and their broader contexts. These networks aim to develop and augment local capabilities for innovation and improvement by…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Improvement Programs, Networks, Social Organizations
Download full textH. Alix Gallagher; Benjamin W. Cottingham; Leah Faw – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2025
The CORE Districts, a nonprofit formed by large urban districts in California, received a Networks for School Improvement grant from the Gates Foundation to launch a network focused on improving ninth-grade on-track rates. CORE based its approach on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Collaborative model, where a hub identifies…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, High School Students, Grade 9
Jeremy Singer – Educational Policy, 2025
Though researchers have documented the consequences and causes of chronic absenteeism, there is limited empirical evidence about what schools and districts are actually doing to improve attendance. This study presents evidence about the types of attendance practices that forty-seven high-absenteeism districts in Michigan are planning and…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Truancy, School Districts, Intervention
Hanan Perlman; Anthony S. Bryk; Jennifer Lin Russell – Peabody Journal of Education, 2025
Networked improvement communities (NICs) aim to build capacity for school-based educators to work collaboratively as active agents of problem solving and change. Yet, the benefits accrued to educators from participating in improvement networks have been sparsely researched. Using survey responses from the members of 34 improvement networks, we…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Teacher Participation, Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs
New Jersey Department of Education, 2025
Annually, the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) collects, analyzes, and reports to the Governor and Legislature on disciplinary infractions and their consequences, as reported by school districts, to meet the requirements of the Public School Safety Law, N.J.S.A. 18A:17-46 through 48. This report includes statewide information on…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Safety, Discipline, Bullying
Contann Dabney, Contributor; Terry Hofer, Contributor; Beth Jackson, Contributor; Smriti Jacob, Contributor; Jeannine Medvedich, Contributor; Andrew Morrill, Contributor; Shakinna Patterson, Contributor; Joe Sassone, Contributor; Giselle Sherry-Marsh, Contributor; Andrew Swanson, Contributor; Ashleigh Tillman, Contributor; Susan Villani, Contributor; Melinda Wallace, Contributor; Noel White, Contributor – WestEd, 2025
This guide was developed for district leaders and leadership teams to use as a supplement to the "Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: A Systems Framework" and its related survey system. The Four Domains framework, from WestEd's Center for School Turnaround and Improvement, was created to assist states, districts, and schools as…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Improvement, Program Implementation, School Districts
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2025
Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) is a transformative, learner-centered institution dedicated to student success that strategically serves Southwest Florida and beyond. The Accountability Plan is an annual report that is closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This report enhances the System's commitment to…
Descriptors: State Universities, Accountability, Educational Finance, Enrollment
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2025
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) is a multi-campus public research university that pursues excellence in its missions of research, scholarship, creative activity, teaching, and active engagement with its communities. The Accountability Plan is an annual report that is closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This…
Descriptors: State Universities, Accountability, Educational Finance, Enrollment
Erica Harbatkin; Alex J. Moran; Samantha Cullum; Jeremy Singer; Katharine O. Strunk; Sarah L. Woulfin – Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, 2025
The Partnership Model of School and District Turnaround is Michigan's policy for improving student outcomes in its lowest performing schools. In compliance with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) identifies as Partnership schools those in the bottom 5% of the Michigan School Index System and…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Models, School Districts, School Turnaround
Lisa J. Lucas – ASCD, 2025
Classroom teaching has many challenges, and these are compounded when you're also preparing students to navigate the world in a way that is healthy and forward-looking. But what if you could take a few minutes every day to not only help your students develop social-emotional skills, but also take stock, recenter, and reset yourself? This engaging…
Descriptors: Students, Teachers, Creative Activities, Creative Thinking
Daniel Moraguez; Osly J. Flores; Chris Small – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2025
The case captures leadership challenges related to recent legislation promoting parents' rights and the tensions that emerged from new mandates affecting the school's inclusive culture. The principal finds himself balancing the needs of parents, teachers, and students while staying true to his commitments and ethics. Challenges include growing…
Descriptors: Ethics, Instructional Leadership, Censorship, Books
Kristin E. Mansell; J. Jacob Kirksey – Center for Innovative Research in Change, Leadership, and Education, 2025
This report examines the characteristics, geographic distributions, and descriptive student outcomes of Model Professional Learning Community (PLC) at Work® Schools in Texas. Model PLC at Work® Schools voluntarily apply for this designation, demonstrating a commitment to collaborative data-driven instructional practices designed to improve student…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Educational Improvement, Teacher Collaboration, School Culture
Nathan Dadey; Carla Evans; Andrew T. Krist; Scott Marion – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2025
The New Hampshire Department of Education (NHED) designed a school accountability system in 2016 and 2017 to meet the requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. The system was implemented in 2017 and 2018 for the first time and has been operating continuously since then, except for 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Descriptors: Accountability, State Departments of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation
Kristin E. Mansell; J. Jacob Kirksey – Center for Innovative Research in Change, Leadership, and Education, 2025
This policy brief examines the impact of Solution Tree's PLC at Work® process on student achievement in Texas schools. Using a quasi-experimental design and statewide data, we found that students in Model PLC Schools made meaningful academic gains, averaging 3.1 months of additional learning in math and 2 months in reading compared to similar…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Educational Improvement, Teacher Collaboration, School Culture
Kristin E. Mansell; J. Jacob Kirksey – Center for Innovative Research in Change, Leadership, and Education, 2025
This report evaluates the impact of the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) at Work® process on student academic achievement over a three-year period in Texas public schools. Drawing on linked administrative data from the University of Houston Education Research Center (UH-ERC), the study uses a quasi-experimental approach to compare…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Educational Improvement, Teacher Collaboration, School Culture
