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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
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2013
Section 107 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Rehabilitation Act), requires the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) to conduct annual reviews and periodic on-site monitoring of programs authorized under Title I of the Rehabilitation Act to determine whether a state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency is…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Vocational Rehabilitation, Compliance (Legal)
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2013
Section 107 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Rehabilitation Act), requires the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) to conduct annual reviews and periodic on-site monitoring of programs authorized under Title I of the Rehabilitation Act to determine whether a state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency is…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Vocational Rehabilitation, Compliance (Legal)
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Hughes, Ronald C.; Rycus, Judith S.; Saunders-Adams, Stacey M.; Hughes, Laura K.; Hughes, Kelli N. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2013
Differential response (DR), also referred to as alternative response (AR), family assessment response (FAR), or multiple track response, was developed to incorporate family-centered, strengths-based practices into child protective services (CPS), primarily by diverting lower risk families into an assessment track rather than requiring the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Social Services, Child Welfare
DiMartino, Joseph; Clarke, John H. – Principal Leadership, 2008
Successful advisory programs have a number of things in common across a wide variety of schools. They all divide the student body into small groups, usually of 20 or fewer students, that meet regularly with an adult in the school community. In addition to this basic element, successful advisory programs have five other elements in common: (1) They…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Program Implementation, Resource Allocation, Alignment (Education)
Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2008
This report describes the process for implementing the policy goals and recommendations of the 2008 Strategic Master Plan for Higher Education. The report provides analysis and strategies to guide the development of the state's higher education system over the next decade and beyond. The strategies follow from four basic priorities: (1) Preserve…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Higher Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Master Plans
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1981
This report outlines the roles and responsibilities, pertaining to the improvement amd coordination of statewide teacher inservice, of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) in the state of Washington. After a field-based research study was conducted, a system was devised by which the SPI can improve coordination of staff development…
Descriptors: Coordination, Inservice Teacher Education, Linking Agents, Needs Assessment