StateSchool Improvement Fund(SIF) Research Links

Grantee shall use the funding provided through this grant for areas related to increases in student achievement identified in ORS 327.297 that include:

  1. Early childhood support including establishing, maintaining or expanding quality pre-kindergarten programs and full-day kindergarten programs

Full-day Kindergarten

Oregon Head Start Collaboration Project—Contact:, (503) 947-5810

Existing Oregon Head Start Prekindergarten programs—Is there one near you?

Head Start Federal Performance Standards

Requirements/Head%20Start%20Requirements

Oregon Head Start Prekindergarten Performance Standards

  1. Class size reduction with an emphasis on the reduction of kindergarten through grade three class sizes

Class Size

Class-Size Reduction—Myths and Realities

Class Size Reduction: Lessons Learned from Experience

Benefits of Small Class Size

  1. Increases in instructional time including summer programs and before- and after- school programs

Afterschool Alliance Research

Out-of-School Time—Harvard Family Research Project

Out-of-School Time—Northwest Regional Education Laboratory

  1. Mentoring, teacher retention and professional development

Retention

What Will Keep Today’s Teachers Teaching?

Recruiting and Retaining Teachers with Alternative Pay

Attracting, Developing, and Retaining Effective Teachers: Background Report for the US

Mentoring Administrators

Good Principals Aren’t Born—They’re Mentored: Are We Investing Enough to Get the School Leaders We Need?

The New Teacher Center

Mentoring Teachers

NCTAF—Induction into Learning Communities

The New Teacher Center

NWREL’s National Mentoring Center

Professional Development

CCSSO—Strengthening Teacher Quality in High Need Schools: Policy and Practice

McREL--Professional Development Criteria

McREL--Teacher Quality Toolkit

  1. Remediation, alternative learning and student retention

ODE—Alternative Education

National Dropout Prevention Center/Network

Federal, State, and Local Roles Supporting Alternative Education

NWREL School Improvement Research: Reducing the Dropout Rate

  1. Services to at-risk youth

ODE—Alternative Education

ODE—Family and Community Involvement

NCES—PublicAlternative Schools and Programs for Students At Risk of Education Failure

What Works Clearinghouse—Dropout Prevention

  1. Programs to improve a student achievement gap among student groups identified by culture, poverty,language and race and other student groups

ODE—Closing the Achievement Gap

ODE—REAL: Strategies for Student Success

The Education Trust

Effective Reading Programs for English Language Learners: A Best Evidence Synthesis

All Students Reaching the Top: Strategies for Closing Academic Achievement Gaps

Writing Next (Carnegie)

The Education Commission of the States

The Institute of Educational Sciences

Learning First Alliance

Learning Point Associates

The Center for ComprehensiveSchool Reform and Improvement

  1. Vocational education programs (referred to as Career and Technical Education)

Education Commission of the States—Career/Technical Education Selected Research and Readings

NGACenter for Best Practices—Retooling Career Technical Education

NationalResearchCenter for Career and Technical Education—Math-in-CTE

Association for Career and Technical Education—CTE Research Clearinghouse

  1. Literacy programs

Oregon Reading First

Oregon’s LiteracyInitiative

ODE--Literacy

ODE—Literacy Leadership State Steering Committee

Alliance for Excellent Education

Writing Next (Carnegie)

Standards for Middle and High School Literacy Coaches (IRA)

  1. Other research-based student improvement strategies approved by the State Board of Education.

The REAL Websitecontains a variety of resources on research-based strategies for student success.

Alignment

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory—Alignment in SEDL’s Working Systematically Model

Surveys of Enacted Curriculum

Other

Rigor, Relevance and Relationships Improve Achievement in Rural High Schools

The Education Trust

The Education Commission of the States

The Institute of Educational Sciences

Learning First Alliance

Learning Point Associates

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The Center for ComprehensiveSchool Reform and Improvement

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