Literacy Toward Widespread Improvement of Literacy in Secondary Schools: Taking Reading Apprenticeship to Scale

Standards, Assessment, & Accountability Insights Into California Standards Implementation — Perceptions, Progress, and Partnership: New Research

Read about California’s implementation of the Common Core standards, and educators’ perceptions of them:

• District Leader Insights Into California State Standards Implementation
  
• California Standards Implementation: Educators' Perceptions
• CenterView: Common Core Implementation in California: A Snapshot of Districts' Progress
• CenterView: Increasing District Capacity to Implement the Common Core: It Begins With a Partnership

Teachers & LeadersValidity of Inferences From Observation Data, Evaluation Data Use, and Teacher Satisfaction With Evaluation Processes: New Research

Three new resources feature teacher evaluations from research, data, and teacher satisfaction standpoints:

• Examining the Validity of Ratings From a Classroom Observation Instrument for Use in a District's Teacher Evaluation System
  
• How Are Teacher Evaluation Data Used in Five Arizona Districts?
  
• Relationship Between School Professional Climate and Teachers' Satisfaction With the Evaluation Process
  
  

Professional Learning Opportunities English Learners and Distributed School Leadership Summer Professional Learning: Register Today!

A few seats are still available in these two courses:

• Quality Teaching for English Learners Summer Institutes
• Transforming Schools Through Distributed Leadership: Summer Institute
  
  

Standards, Assessment, & Accountability Ensuring All Students Meet the New Standards

WestEd partners with clients nationwide on research-based solutions to gauge school, teacher, and student performance and make the best use of the results.

Visit our Standards, Assessment, & Accountability page to learn about our related research, services, resources, news, and events.

Also learn about WestEd's Standards, Assessment, and Accountability Services (SAAS) program, which provides states and education entities with policy guidance and technical assistance on building effective and aligned school, district, and educator accountability systems.

Agency News WestEd Celebrates 50 Years

During the 1990s, a study showed that teachers who participated for two or more years in case-based discussions developed by WestEd's Mathematics Case Methods Project improved their math knowledge by over 20 percentage points.

Read more WestEd historical milestones on our Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence page.

Summer Reading: English Language Learners

Order our two best-selling English language learner resources. Each comes with a 20% discount!

• English Language Learners and the New Standards: Developing Language, Content Knowledge, and Analytical Practices in the Classroom
  
• Scaffolding the Academic Success of Adolescent English Language Learners: A Pedagogy of Promise
  
  

Understanding Proficiency: Learning From Student Work on Performance Tasks

Understanding Proficiency provides resources to help educators develop a deeper understanding of the Common Core State Standards by analyzing student work on performance tasks.

Visit the Understanding Proficiency website to get started.