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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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Educators Rising Overview
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Reform Integration Framework and Resource Guide
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Assessment Mythbusters for PARCC and Smarter Balanced
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Support for Growth: How States Can Improve the Quality of Post-Observation Feedback
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What Does a High-Quality Assessment Look Like?
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Common Core in the Districts: An Early Look at Early Implementers
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Targeting Growth: Using Student Learning Objectives as a Measure of Educator Effectiveness
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Engaging Educators: A Reform Support Network Guide for States and Districts
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Student Learning Objective (SLO) Library
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Implementation of the Common Core State Standards: A Transition Guide for School-level Leaders
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Educator Evaluation Communications Toolkit
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Making High-Quality Teacher Evaluation Manageable
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Promoting Evaluation Rating Accuracy: Strategic Options for States
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Moving Forward: A National Perspective on States’ Progress In Common Core State Standards Implementation Planning
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Common Core State Standards Tool for Legislators
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Preparing for Change: A National Perspective on Common Core State Standards Implementation Planning
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The Path to Scale: Ideas for Navigating NonProfit Growth
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Making Oregon a Great Place to Teach: Recommendations from Oregon’s Distinguished Educators