Conference Materials
September/October 2010 - Leading Successful School Turnarounds: Learning from Research and Practice
For a related discussion of research on school turnarounds please see a WestEd archived webinar from September 22 on schools that have achieved dramatic improvement:
http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/smu/view/e/4621
Related Materials
- Conference Program
- Breakout Session Descriptions
- Preconference Webinar
- District's Role - Johnson Presentation
- Focus on Instruction - Frey & Viss Presentation
- Focus on Instruction - Pashler Presentation
- From Action Plan to Implementation Presentation
- Leading Successful School Turnarounds - Hassel Presentation
- School Climate - Brown Presentation
- Signaling Change - Hassel Presentation
- Teacher Evaluation and Support Systems - Johnson Presentation
- Teacher Evaluation and Support Systems - Rao Presentation
- Teacher Evaluation and Support Systems - Schiff Presentation
- Union District Collaboration - Urbanski Presentation
- Using Assessment Data - Rabinowitz Presentation
April 2010 - SWCC Regional High School Summit
- Agenda (doc)
- IES Practice Guide : Dropout Prevention (ppt)
- Interpreting the Evidence around College Access Strategies (ppt)
December 2009 - WestEd Forum on Building Coherence with ARRA Funds
An invitational forum on "Building Coherence with ARRA Funds" was held on December 18, 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona. The purpose of the meeting was to provide a forum for West/Southwest education and community leaders to engage with USED officials about the Obama Administration's reform priorities and the status of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act initiatives. The Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, Tony Miller, and other officials from the Department met with invited education leaders and policy makers from across the West and Southwest. Representatives from eleven states attended. The event was co-sponsored by the Southwest Comprehensive Center with REL West, REL Southwest, REL Central, the California Comprehensive Center, Mid-Continent Comprehensive Center, North Central Comprehensive Center, Texas Comprehensive Center and the Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center.
- Agenda (doc)
- Comprehensive Center Network Resources for ARRA - Data Systems (doc)
- Comprehensive Center Network Resources for ARRA - Effective Leaders and Teachers (doc)
- Comprehensive Center Network Resources for ARRA - Standards and Assessments (doc)
- Comprehensive Center Network Resources for ARRA - Struggling Schools (doc)
- Standards & Assessments: Building Coherence with ARRA Funds (ppt)
- Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (ppt)
- Turning Around Struggling Schools: An Overview (ppt)
- Thinking About Teacher/Leader Effectiveness at Scale (ppt)
- Title I and IDEA Coordination of ARRA Funds (ppt)
April 2009 - SWCC Regional High School Summit
- Agenda (doc)
- Powering Up: Alignment and Renewal of High Schools (ppt)
- Measuring 21st Century Skills: Issues, Definitions, Principles, Purposes, Approaches (ppt)
March 2009 - WestEd Forum on Turning Around Low-Performing Schools
- Agenda (doc)
- Event Proceedings (pdf)
- IES Practice Guide: Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools (pdf)
September 2008 - WestEd Forum on State Systems of Support
- Agenda (doc)
- Center on Education Policy (CEP) Presentation (ppt)
- Lessons from NCLB in Five States - CEP (pdf)
April 2008 - SWCC Regional High School Summit
- Agenda (doc)
- Integrating Approaches to Tiered Interventions into High School Redesign Initiatives (ppt)
- Improving Literacy Instruction in Middle and High Schools (ppt)
March 2008 - Nevada Indian Education Summit
- Agenda (pdf)
- Presentation 1 (pdf)
- Presentation 2 (pdf)
- Presentation 3 (pdf)
- Presentation 4 (pdf)
- Presentation 5 (pdf)
- Presentation 6 (pdf)
- Presentation 7 (pdf)
- Presentation 8 (pdf)
- Presentation 9 (pdf)
- Presentation 10 (pdf)
June 2007 - District Improvement Training
- Event Materials Binder (pdf)
January 2007 - Indian Education Regional Summit
- Agenda (doc)
- SWCC: Research on Indian Education (ppt)
- SWCC: New Thinking in Indigenous Education (ppt)
- Arizona: Community Involvement in Indian Education (ppt)
- Guiding American Indian Students to Become Teachers (doc)
- Navajo Nation Teacher Education Consortium (ppt)
- Journal of Research in Rural Education: Reforming Education from the Inside Out (pdf)
August 2006 - Leading Change Institute
- Agenda (xls)
June 2006 - District Improvement Training
- Agenda (doc)
- Colorado District Improvement (ppt)
- Kentucky District Improvement (ppt)
- Ohio District Improvement (ppt)
- Virginia District Improvement (ppt)
- Wisconsin District Improvement (ppt)
April 2006 - Closing the Achievement Gap
- Agenda (doc)
- Reading (pdf)
- Math (pdf)
- Science (pdf)
- African American (pdf)
- Latino ELL (pdf)
- Native American (pdf)
- Gender (pdf)
- Socio-economic Status (pdf)
- Complete Bibliography (pdf)
