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Student Achievement Resources
Help for school boards to focus precious resources on programs that do the most good - teaching reading skills at an early age, ensuring that students learn problem-solving skills, and providing alternative programs when and if they are needed.
Access a list of surveys on a variety of topics to see how you rank compared to other districts, education service districts and community colleges in Oregon.
“Waiting for Superman,” a documentary film released nationwide in October 2010, focuses on educational challenges in five urban schools. These resources from the National School Boards Association will help board members and administrators discuss the film with their community.
CCSSI would establish a shared set of educational standards for English language arts and mathematics that states can voluntarily adopt.
State Board of Education adopted Common Core State Standards for English language arts and Literacy and mathematics in October 2010.
Help for school boards to focus precious resources on programs that do the most good - teaching reading skills at an early age, ensuring that students learn problem-solving skills, and providing alternative programs when and if they are needed - so that fewer students become dropout statistics.
Recommended resources from NSBA on boosting student achievement
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Student Achievement Publications
This online course looks at the difference between equality and equity, and why it is vital to closing the achievement gap.
NSBA's newly revised guidebook provides a systems-thinking framework that gives educational leaders a blueprint to create quality, results-driven school systems. The enhanced guidebook includes: an analysis of the impacts of new federal and state legislation, including No Child Left Behind; new opportunities for districts based on evolving technology; tactics for surviving and thriving in this era of public accountability; suggestions on how to use data for decision making at all levels - classroom, school, district, and school board; and, case studies illustrating districts who have successfully used Key Work concepts to advance student achievement.
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Student Achievement Related Links
As new, more rigorous diploma requirements are launched in Oregon schools, administrators need tools and information to help with planning and implementation.
Because the "what" of school improvement is well established, the focus of the EESC's School Improvement work is to support schools on "how" to improve. The Teaching Learning Connection (TLC) is Oregon's statewide framework that supports districts and schools in their effort to move from "good to great" and/or help make immediate and dramatic changes for Title I-A schools/districts that are in "needs improvement status" or restructuring.
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