RESOURCES

Resources for Best Practice Database

The Resources for Best Practice database includes journal articles, reports, books, manuals, web sites, and Powerpoint presentations recognized as exemplifying best practice in various topic areas. Topics include achievement gap, after-school programs, assessments, curriculum, ELL, instruction, leadership, NCLB, special education, and many others.

2007 TXCC Forum

Working Systemically: The District's Role in School Improvement

The Texas Comprehensive Center hosted its second annual forum in beautiful San Antonio! This year the forum was designed to help school district leaders and ESC staff work together on defining and planning the role of the district leadership in school improvement as they work toward meeting NCLB implementation goals. This forum was designed for leaders of districts with schools designated as “potential” schools for the 2006–07 school year. "Potential" schools are those that failed to meet AYP for their first year and have the potential to go into School Improvement if they miss AYP again.

2006 TXCC Forum

Strategies for School Improvement: Understanding and Achieving AYP

The Texas Education Agency (TEA), guided by the requirements of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001, has outlined specific requirements for schools not meeting Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). Understanding and Achieving AYP is a set of activities designed to assist facilitators working with teams from schools that have not met these requirements for the first time.

Improving High School Student Achievement and Graduation Rates

The National High School Center is pleased to announce the release of our research brief, "Emerging Evidence on Improving High School Student Achievement and Graduation Rates: The Effects of Four Popular Improvement Programs," by MDRC, a partner of the National High School Center. A key finding of the brief indicates that instructional improvements, along with structural changes that promote personalization, are both important in creating higher-performing high schools.

Leadership Skills for Resolving Conflict

May 16-18, 2007

Data Driven Dialogue

Based on our book, Data-Driven Dialogue: A Facilitator’s Guide to Collaborative Inquiry, this interactive seminar explores and applies a three-phase Collaborative Learning Cycle that guides professional inquiry. Participants investigate strategies and structures that reduce defensiveness and create shared responsibility for student learning. The sessions offer practical tools for discovering assumptions, promoting data-focused inquiry and developing shared understandings of both problems and possible solutions. These understandings become the foundation for dynamical planning processes.

Coaching for Success for TA Providers

January 4-5, 2007

Coaching for Success for Leaders

March 7-9, 2007

Working Systemically - Reflection and Phase III

December 4, 2007

Strategies for English Language Learners in Secondary Mathematics

The objectives of the Strategies for English Language Learners in Secondary Mathematics event were to provide opportunities that promote collaboration and exchange of expertise between ESC Mathematics and ELL staff and to increase the capacity of ESC Mathematics and ELL staff to design and deliver high quality training on research-based mathematics instruction focusing on English Language Learners.

Strategies for English Language Learners in Secondary Mathematics: Developing Professional Developers

This event included Days 3 and 4 of the series for ESC professional development staff. The sessions were designed to deepen the collaboration among ESC mathematics and ELL staff and to continue to build their capacity to design and deliver high quality training for teachers on research-based mathematics instruction focusing on English language learners.

What Can a Mathematics Teacher Do for the English Language Learner?

This interactive document was developed during a professional development session, led by the Texas Comprehensive Center, for mathematics and ESL specialists from the Education Service Centers in Texas.

Strategies for English Language Learners in Secondary Science (Days 1 & 2)

Activities for January 25-26, 2007

Strategies for English Language Learners in Secondary Science (Days 3 & 4)

Activities for April 11-13, 2007

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