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Hertzog, Nancy B.; Lamb, Kristen N.; Balatico, A. J. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2023
Equity and access to advanced learning opportunities have been issues of concern for educators in the field of gifted education for decades. Gifted programs are noted as some of the most segregated learning environments in schools today. This study was designed to investigate how school districts have addressed educational equity through the…
Descriptors: School Districts, Equal Education, Educational Policy, Academically Gifted
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Ellen Ebert; Johanna Brown; Elizabeth Schmitz; Deb L. Morrison; Philip Bell; Cheryl Lydon; Luke Matlack – Connected Science Learning, 2024
Washington State's ClimeTime Network is a groundbreaking effort that has been implementing systemic capacity-building around climate science learning, as well as broader scientific literacy, for the past 6 years. This article provides an overview of the ClimeTime Network formation, framing, and implementation strengths and challenges.…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Science Education, Climate, Environmental Education
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Honig, Meredith I.; Donaldson Walsh, Emily – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2019
The field of educational leadership has also come to recognize the central importance of improving the quality of leadership preparation across leaders' careers, including at the doctoral level, for strengthening equitable teaching and learning in schools. What do doctoral programs that strive to realize such equity goals do? With what results? In…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Instructional Leadership, Educational Development, Doctoral Programs
Lee Collyer; Tammy Bolen – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2023
In 2019, the Legislature passed Senate Bill 5082 (SB 5082), which directed the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to establish a Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Committee to build upon the work of the previous Social Emotional Learning Indicators (SELI) Workgroup. The purpose of the SEL Advisory Committee is to promote and…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Program Implementation
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Faxon-Mills, Susannah; Schwartz, Heather L.; Augustine, Catherine H. – RAND Corporation, 2022
The Wallace Foundation's Partnerships for Social and Emotional Learning Initiative is a six-year initiative that The Wallace Foundation launched in 2017 to explore whether and how children benefit when schools and their out-of-school-time programs partner to improve social and emotional learning (SEL), as well as what it takes to do this work.…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Partnerships in Education, Case Studies, Elementary School Students
Gallardo, Veronica M.; Finnegan, Patty; Ingram, Amy; Martin, Shannon – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2020
This guidance is designed as a companion resource to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction's (OSPI's) "Reopening Washington Schools 2020: District Planning Guide" (ED606044), issued June 2020. The goal of this companion document is to provide guidance, best practices, resources, and unique considerations for supporting…
Descriptors: School Closing, COVID-19, Pandemics, Bilingual Students
Stiles, Katherine; Mundry, Susan; DiRanna, Kathy – WestEd, 2017
In response to the need to develop leaders to guide the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the Carnegie Corporation of New York provided funding to WestEd to develop a framework that defines the leadership knowledge and actions needed to effectively implement the NGSS. The development of the framework entailed…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Science Instruction, Standard Setting, Science Education
Elmore, Richard F. – 1990
Controlled educational choice, defined as parental or student choice of educational programs within the public school system that is regulated for public purposes, has become a leading proposal for educational reform. This paper reviews evidence from three working models of choice: the Minnesota Postsecondary Enrollment Options program (PEO), the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1997
The Washington state School-to-Work (STW) All Students/Special Populations Work Group developed a set of criteria to ensure equity in access, outreach, participation, and treatment for all students in the STW system. "All students and special populations" encompasses both male and female students; disadvantaged students with diverse…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Diversity (Student), Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy