7 Evidence-Based Practices for Creating Summer Learning Opportunities
This blog post features an infographic that highlights seven foundational best practices for creating effective summer and extended learning opportunities.
Addressing Educator Workforce Shortages: A State Comparison Brief
A talented educator workforce is an essential foundation for improving educational outcomes for students. As such, securing teachers at all levels of the educator pipeline (recruitment, preparation, and retention) is necessary for student success. Unfortunately, the United States educator workforce is experiencing shortages of crisis-level proportions, and these shortages
Free Course: Culturally Responsive Parent and Family Engagement
This self-paced course from the Western Educational Assistance Center helps participants to infuse family engagement strategies and frameworks that are culturally responsive into school communities.
Leadership During Change
This article by KSDE's Mischel Miller explores the Kansas education system and the leadership necessary to implement crucial instructional changes in the classroom.
Free Course: Equity in K-12 Education
This WEEAC course provides participants with a deeper understanding of what equity means and how race, religion, gender, and national origin ties into the work of equity champions.
Assessing Student Learning During the Pandemic
The U.S. Department of Education has released guidance to states that emphasizes flexibility around assessing student learning during the pandemic and allows waiver requests for accountability requirements.