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Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Assessment and Accountability: Six Habits of a Highly Effective District
September 21 - Free Online Event
 This Online Event will highlight one school district's success in raising student achievement, along with some of the reasons for this improvement. The Vail School District (AZ) and its Mesquite Elementary moved rapidly and effectively to implement an accountability system and significant changes in classroom practice, with excellent results. With implementation support and professional development from WestEd's Local Accountability Professional Development Series (LAPDS), and using Assessment Technology Inc.'s (ATI) web-based benchmark assessment/data management system, teachers and administrators were able to quickly intervene with students who had missed the opportunity to learn with the help of instant turnaround on benchmark assessment and formative assessment data. Registration required.
Evaluating English Learner Services & Results for Accountability & Instructional Improvement
October 12 - Free Online Event
The English Learner Evaluation and Accountability Support (ELEAS) strand of WestEd's Comprehensive School Assistance Program provides research, development, and technical assistance/consulting services to educators and policymakers serving the western region’s large and growing English learner (EL) population. Learn to build local capacity of district/site leadership teams to evaluate EL performance and progress in English language development (ELD) and academic achievement. This is the first of two Online Events on this topic in the month of October. Registration required.
Districtwide Self-Review for New Teachers
A self-review process in Wichita, Kansas helps new teachers monitor their progress.
Read about high school reform.
As the nation expands its focus on improvement to include high schools, we’ve chosen to feature a new resource from WestEd, Inside High School Reform: Making the Changes That Matter, which presents a picture of what successes can be had when low-performing secondary schools commit to reform themselves and educators collaborate to raise expectations for students.
For additional information on improving high schools, please visit the Secondary section of SchoolsMovingUp’s Reading Room.
Look for new profiles of schools that have overcome the odds and shown consistent improvement in coming editions of the monthly SchoolsMovingUp/date.
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