Best Practices Framework

Publisher: National Center for Educational Achievement
Publication Date: 2006
Full text available online at: http://www.just4kids.org/en/research_policy/best_practices/framework.cfm

Description (written by WestEd)

This Just for the Kids “Best Practices Framework” provides a detailed and user-friendly framework that schools and administrators can use to help students reach higher academic achievement standards. In addition, this Framework has been created to assist educators’ focus on practices and strategies that are likely to positively improve student achievement. The site also provides and hosts a user-friendly database with more than 500 school and district profiles from over twenty states that were previously studied by the National Center for Educational Achievement (NCEA).

This large NCEA school and district database includes individual reports based on conversations with district leaders, principals, and teachers at high- and average-performing schools across the country. From Lunalilo Elementary School in Hawaii to Von Steuben Middle School in Illinois to Palm Bay Senior High School in Florida, NCEA researchers examined the practices of educators in schools that were consistently outperforming their peers.