Strategies for Addressing Student and Teacher Absenteeism: A Literature Review

This report addresses the variety of approaches  and factors that influence the pervasiveness of absenteeism for students and teachers alike.

Resources related to
informing/mitigating

chronic absenteeism

This document offers a list of resources related to informing and mitigating chronic absenteeism in your school or district.

National Institute for Early Education Research

This center assists SEAs in their effort to implement comprehensive and aligned early learning system.

Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes (CEELO)

The Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes (CEELO) works to strengthen the capacity of SEAs to lead sustained improvements in early learning opportunities and outcomes.

Closing Opportunity and Achievement Gaps

Aligning Systems to Target Supports and Interventions for Students Most in Need

Reallocating Funds and Breaking Down Silos

Understand the role of the SEA in the ED Formula Programs, and discover strategies for promoting turnaround-aligned spending.

School Climate and Culture, and the Culture of Innovation

Center on Innovations in Learning introduces a new solution-finding report about climate and innovation.

Strategies for Addressing Student & Teacher Absenteeism

Inform perspectives concerning chronic absenteeism amongst students and teachers.

Reciprocal Teaching in Action

North Central Comprehensive Center Reciprocal Teaching Curriculum Gateway provides structure for students to engage in discourse.

Major Provisions of Every Student Succeeds ACT (ESSA)

This is a very accessible and readable introduction to ESSA as it relates to the education of ELs.

Newcomer Tool Kit

This tool kit is designed to support educators and school staff in implementing and improving programs for immigrant students, including asylees, refugees, and their families.

Welcome Kit for New ELLS

This article provides practical suggestions, and additional resource links, for creating materials to welcome newcomer English learner students into school settings.

Practical Guidelines for the Education of English Language Learners

This summary of recommendations is developed for districts, schools, and teachers seeking to provide effective programs for adolescent newcomers.

High-Leverage Principles of Effective Instruction for English Learners

This resource provides teachers of EL students with effective, high-leverage learning and teaching principles that can be incorporated into daily instructional plans and routines.

Classroom Instruction That Works with English Language Learners

This instructional guide for teachers of students acquiring English includes teaching tips...

EdWeek English-Language Learners Research

English-language learners pose unique challenges for educators striving to ensure that such students get access to...

Incorporating English Learner Progress into  State Accountability Systems

This paper identifies key issues and questions for state decision makers to consider and explore with regard to how states should include English learners (ELs) in states' accountability systems under ESSA.

Discerning—and Fostering—What English Learners can use to Complement English Language Proficiency (ELP) Assessments

This resource describes classroom-based evidence of English learners' (ELs') language used to complement ELP assessments.

Focusing New Teachers on Diversity and Equity

New teachers in the US often are unprepared to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students.

Center for Research on Education, Diversity, & Excellence  (CREDE)

This research was adapted to other indigenous educational settings...

Nebraska Framework handbook

The "Nebraska Framework" is a handbook to help schools in the school improvement process.

Nebraska Data, Research, and Evaluation Team

Supporting the work of the Department and School Districts with data collections and submissions, technical questions...

Aligning Leadership Standards to the Professional standards for Educational Leaders: A Toolkit and Crosswalk

This toolkit and crosswalk offers state education agencies, leadership preparation programs, and other organizations a step-by-step process for aligning their current leadership standards to the PSEL.

Principal Evaluation Research

An extensive list of resources.

Aligning Evaluation: How Much Do Teacher Evaluation Rubrics Emphasize Common Core Instruction?

This brief contributes to the discussion of whether teacher evaluation rubrics contain specific instructional guidance to teachers that will help them teach the things they have been asked to teach.

Measuring Teacher Effectiveness:

A Look “Under the Hood of Teacher Evaluation” in 10 Sites. Research and experience make this clear: Great teachers change lives.