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Education First’s publication library offers curated documents, toolkits, policy memos and templates that have served our clients around the country and are now available to support you. Use these resources to guide your strategic planning, to stay fresh on hot-topic reform areas, to improve your planning and implementation at the state or local levels and to inform grantmaking strategies and investments in areas that will improve student outcomes.
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Following Through On What We’ve Started
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Planning and Managing Effective Networks
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Education First Strategic Planning Overview
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Series: Achieving the Benefits of K-12 and Higher Education Alignment
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Brief 1: An Introduction
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Brief 2: Defining College and Career Readiness
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Brief 3: Adopting New College and Career Ready Assessments
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Brief 4: Developing and Using College Readiness Courses
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Brief 5: Aligning Gateway College Courses
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Brief 6: Redesigning Educator Prep Programs
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Getting Out of the Way: Education Flexibility to Boost Innovation and Improvement in Ohio
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Putting it All Together: Using Multiple Measures to Improve Teaching
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A Complicated Conversation: A Framework for Guiding Assessment Conversation and Decision-Making
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What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Testing Time—and What States Can Do
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State Facilitator’s Guide for the Reform Support Network Communications and Engagement Assessment Rubric
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Communications and Engagement Assessment Rubric
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Reform Integration Framework and Resource Guide
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Engaging Educators: A Reform Support Network Guide for States and Districts