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Putting school improvement into action

Overview
SchoolsMovingUp, a WestEd initiative, helps schools and districts address the immense challenge of raising student achievement in low-performing schools. In an interactive Web format, SchoolsMovingUp offers practitioners knowledge and expertise they need to make sound decisions and take tangible action in their school reform efforts. It provides high-quality resources, proven services, and powerful tools that education professionals can use in their work with low-performing schools nationwide. Resources include profiles of schools from across the country that have improved student achievement, easily implemented or replicated school and district tips to assist in school improvement efforts, and articles, books, and abstracts offering practical ideas and models for school improvement. Frequent online events bring experts to the Web to share lessons learned, new ideas, and related resources. SchoolsMovingUp also offers practical information about the sweeping reform of the No Child Left Behind Act.

What You'll Find
SchoolsMovingUp is organized to effectively serve your needs and offers multiple ways for you to contact WestEd school improvement staff. Highlights of the site include the following:

Assistance provides a list of WestEd services designed to support low-performing schools. Review a menu of our services or contact a research professional to lead you through our areas of expertise.
Ideas in Action provides an insider's look into others' school improvement efforts. Browse profiles of successful schools, reform ideas, and tips from educators working on school improvement — each designed to help you make sound decisions and take action.
Tools helps you manage your school improvement process more effectively. Select from a full list of tools at the bottom or browse by area of interest.
Reading Room contains articles and books offering practical ideas and models for school improvement. Abstracts of each resource help you quickly find exactly what you need. Search by school improvement topic or full list.
Resources offers links related to school improvement, WestEd products for sale, and a list of free electronic newsletters on important education issues.
Events provides information about upcoming workshops, lectures, and conferences related to school improvement. Access upcoming free online events or browse our events archive, where you can watch and listen to full Web presentations by leaders in the field.
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.

Contributors
SchoolsMovingUp is a WestEd agency-wide, collaborative initiative that brings together multiple programs and projects. Please see About Us for details about the contributing projects and programs.

Input and Feedback
At SchoolsMovingUp 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 such as tools and articles that you may want to share with others. Please email us at schoolsmovingup@wested.org with ideas, comments and questions.