Category: Reports

Open Up Opportunity is designed to help school leaders find new paths to instructional improvement, naming four habits and curated tools.

A new quasi-experimental study of Leading Educators’ work provides new proof for the power of teacher professional development, finding significant results for students.

An advanced study by RAND Corporation of Leading Educators’ Chicago-based teacher professional learning program found significant, positive effects on student achievement.

New research finds that digitally accessible, high-quality instructional materials designed to bring students, families and educators together increased student learning and engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research reveals possibilities for sustained partnership between schools and families moving forward.

Structures for Belonging is a research synthesis that illuminates structures – or practices, policies, and norms – related to belonging in four overlapping categories: access to learning environments; relationships with educators, peers, and families; instructional resources and pedagogy; and system-level policies and practices.

This report speaks to the challenges and opportunities of assessing teaching and student experience to get closer to equitable outcomes.

A new case study from Redstone Strategy Group unpacks how how Baltimore City Public Schools is succeeding with high-quality curricula through implementation and improvement science.

A new paper explores how professional learning anchored in high-quality curriculum materials allows teachers to experience the instruction their students will receive and change their instructional practices, leading to better student outcomes.

Read how districts are responding to COVID and systemic racism. Understanding how to deliver high-quality teaching and learning at scale — particularly for the most vulnerable students — remains vital.

A new journal article explores attempts to measure instructional quality within DC Public Schools’ LEAP program, launched in partnership with Leading Educators.