About Us

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.

What You'll Find

SchoolsMovingUp is organized to effectively serve your needs:

• Ideas in Action provides an insider's look into others' school improvement efforts. Browse profiles of schools and districts nationwide that have improved student achievement and easily implemented or replicated school and district tips to assist in school improvement.
• Reading Room contains abstracts of resources offering practical ideas for school improvement, along with links to the full resource — all organized by our school improvement topics.
• Useful Links offers links to websites related to school improvement and a list of free electronic newsletters on important education issues.
• The Webinars section provides access to our upcoming free webinars featuring education experts who share lessons learned, new ideas, and related resources. You can also browse our webinar archive, where you can watch and listen to full web presentations by leaders in the field.
• Resources by Topic enables you to search SchoolsMovingUp by any of our school improvement topics. Your search results will include relevant webinars, Reading Room abstracts, Tips to Go, and Useful Links.
• Our special section on No Child Left Behind offers guidance, resources, and tools organized by key topics to help you get the most out of this federal legislation.

Learn More

For more information about SchoolsMovingUp, visit our Frequently Asked Questions page.

Input and Feedback

Our main goal is to help you, the education professional. To this end, we value input, feedback, and requests for information. Let us know what you need and we will strive to post it on the site. We also welcome submissions you may want to share with others. Please email us at schoolsmovingup@wested.org with ideas, comments, and questions.

Permission to Use Our Resources

SchoolsMovingUp, a WestEd initiative, invites you to use our resources in your work. For uses that involve reproduction of more than one copy of the resource, please submit the online permission request form. We will reply immediately once we know your intended reproduction needs. All reproductions of the resource must include a full citation of the WestEd copyright, included in the permission request form.