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Conference Presentation         Occasional Paper		Finding Time for Professional Development: Voices From the Field July 2004 Emily Crandall of the Region III Comprehensive Center A conference presentation was developed to describe how school staff might find time to transform professional development approaches. Brokering External Policies to Raise Student Achievement: The Case of Plainfield, New Jersey School District May 2004 Marilyn Savarese Muirhead and Eric Collum of the Region III Comprehensive Center As part of its 1998 decision, in Abbott v. Burke V, the New Jersey State Supreme Court ordered the State Department of Education to provide funding for "whole-school reform," also known as comprehensive school reform (CSR). This report examines the actions taken by Plainfield Public School District (PPS), one of the districts affected by the Abbott decision, to implement the Abbott policy. Plainfield provides an example of a district that has adopted a CSR model and experienced a significant increase in language arts literacy achievement results across all its elementary schools. This report is published as a CSR Connection occasional paper by the National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform at The George Washington University.
PowerPoint Slide Show		Targeting the Assessment Needs of ELLs: States' Policies Regarding the Accommodations of ELLs March 2004 Over the last decade states have been challenged to include English language learners (ELLs) appropriately in state assessment programs. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) supports the use of accommodations-changes to a test or testing situation intended to facilitate students' access to test content without altering the test construct. This slide show presents an overview of a study conducted by the Center for Equity and Excellence in Education that focuses on states' assessment policies for school year (SY) 2000-2001, the year in which states' assessment systems were to have been fully implemented under IASA. Because IASA and NCLB both urge the accommodation of ELLs, data from SY 2000-2001 assessment policies can provide insight into how states' policies can become more responsive to the accountability requirements of NCLB. This presentation was given at the National Association for Bilingual Education Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2004.
PowerPoint Slide Show		Mapping Out a Strategy for Meeting NCLB Requirements March 2004 This presentation provides a brief overview of NCLB Title I accountability requirements. It also describes three elements that enable strategic planning for technical assistance to schools in need of improvement: data driven decision-making; research-based strategies; and highly qualified professionals.
PowerPoint Slide Show		How to Implement NCLB Accountability March 2004 This slide show examines NCLB accoutability provisions within the context of organizational culture and individual and organizational capacity to implement large-scale reform.
PowerPoint Slide Show		Scientific Based Research: Doing What Works March 2004 This presentation provides practitioners with an overview of different types of research, the purposes for which research can be used, and what is meant by "scientifically based research" within the context of NCLB.
PowerPoint Slide Show		‘Closing the Gap’ for English Language Learners: Why Student-Centered School-Parent-Community Partnerships Matter March 2004 This slide show is a primer on NCLB requirements schools must address relative to parents of English language learners and provides parents with key questions they can use to determine whether schools, districts and states are attending to the educational needs of their students.