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Summer Learning

Making Summer Last Integrating Summer Programming | Wallace Foundation

October 1, 2017 Report

School Leadership

How Principals Can Improve Student Success

September 21, 2017 Article

Afterschool

Afterschool Systems Show Promise for Learning and Enrichment

September 21, 2017 Article

Arts Education

10 Principles to Create a Promising Youth Arts Program

September 21, 2017 Article

Social and Emotional Learning

Interest in Social and Emotional Learning Heats Up

September 21, 2017 Article

Arts

Making a Case for Investment in the Arts

September 21, 2017 Article

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Summer Learning

Summer Learning Programs Benefit Youth with High Attendance

September 21, 2017 Article

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Financial Management for Nonprofits

Proper Financial Management Helps Nonprofits Improve Efficiency

September 21, 2017 Article

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Cross-Sector Collaboration

Strategies to Scale Up Social Programs

September 1, 2017 Report

School Leadership

Public Policy

Principals and Other School Leaders: The Evidence Base for Their Critical Role in ESSA – With State Examples

June 30, 2017 Presentation

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School Leadership

Principal Pipeline

What It Takes to Operate and Maintain Principal Pipelines

June 1, 2017 Report

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School Leadership

Principal Pipeline

Leader Tracking Systems Turning Data Into Information

June 1, 2017 Report

$Future of Children$

Social and Emotional Learning

The Future of Children: Social and Emotional Learning

May 31, 2017 Report

School Leadership

Public Policy

Principals and Other School Leaders: The Evidence Base for Critical Role in ESSA

May 16, 2017 Presentation

Getting Intentional About Principal Evaluations

School Leadership

Principal Pipeline

Getting Intentional About Principal Evaluations

May 1, 2017 Article

A study of the Communities In Schools student support program finds “mixed but promising results,” including improved elementary school attendance and uncertainty about impact in several areas.

School Leadership

Using Integrated Student Supports to Keep Kids in School

April 10, 2017 Report

A study of the Communities In Schools intensive student support program finds several positive non-academic results for participating students and no effect on academic measures.

School Leadership

Two Years of Case Management for At-Risk Students | Wallace Foundation

April 1, 2017 Report

Arts

Ballet Austin: Expanding Audiences for Unfamiliar Works

February 1, 2017 Article

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Arts

Building Millennial Audiences Barriers and Opportunities

January 1, 2017 Report

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School Leadership

Logic Models for Implementing School Leadership Interventions

January 1, 2017 Report

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Afterschool

The Value of Out-of-School Time Programs

January 1, 2017 Report

Denver Munroe Elementary School Students

Social and Emotional Learning

Evaluation of Citizen Schools’ Expanded Learning Time Model

December 11, 2016 Report

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Social and Emotional Learning

SEL Feedback and Communications Insights from the Field

December 1, 2016 Report

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School Leadership

Support for Instructional Leadership

November 11, 2016 Report

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Principal Training

A Bold Move to Better Prepare Principals: The Illinois Story

October 7, 2016 Video

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School Leadership

Principal Pipeline

Building a Stronger Principalship, Vol. 5 | Wallace Foundation

October 1, 2016 Report

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Summer Learning

Learning from Summer Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning

September 1, 2016 Report

School Leadership

Public Policy

Comment Letter: Flexibility of States to Use ESSA Funds to Strengthen School Leaders

July 29, 2016 Comment Letter

A Wallace Story From the Field describes how six districts have developed data systems to help them better train, hire and support school principals.

School Leadership

Chock Full of Data

July 11, 2016 Report

School Leadership

Public Policy

Guidance on Title II Funding and School Leadership

May 25, 2016 Comment Letter

School Leadership

Public Policy

Guidance on Federal Funding to Enhance School Leadership

May 23, 2016 Comment Letter

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Arts

Converting Family into Fans | Wallace Foundation

May 19, 2016 Report

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Social and Emotional Learning

ExpandED Schools National Demonstration | Wallace Foundation

April 1, 2016 Report

Afterschool

Connecting the Dots Data Use in Afterschool Systems

April 1, 2016 Report

Well-designed training and support can help nonprofits manage resources for sustainability and quality, Nancy Devine writes in The Foundation Review.

Financial Management for Nonprofits

The Groundwork for Successful Cohort-Based Fiscal Capacity

March 15, 2016 Report

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Cross-Sector Collaboration

Collective Impact and the New Generation | Wallace Foundation

March 1, 2016 Report

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School Leadership

Improving State Evaluation of Principal Preparation Programs

February 11, 2016 Report

A principal sits with a teacher and students at a table full of learning blocks.

School Leadership

Improving University Principal Preparation Programs

February 1, 2016 Report

School Leadership

Public Policy

Evidence About School Leadership

January 20, 2016 Comment Letter

School Leadership

Public Policy

Discussion with US Department of Education on prioritizing leadership in ESSA regulations and guidance

January 19, 2016 Presentation

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School Leadership

Principal Pipeline

Building a Stronger Principalship, Vol. 4 Evaluating

January 1, 2016 Report

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School Leadership

Model Principal Supervisor Professional Standards 2015

December 1, 2015 Report

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School Leadership

Early Efforts on Principal Pipelines: Strategies to Improve

November 11, 2015 Report

A group of mixed gender and race principals meeting in an office

School Leadership

Professional Standards for Educational Leaders 2015

November 1, 2015 Report

School Leadership

Principal Training

Experience Makes a Great Teacher

October 16, 2015 Article

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Afterschool

How Cities are Sustaining Their Afterschool Systems

October 11, 2015 Report

Cross-Sector Collaboration

Putting Collective Impact Into Context | Wallace Foundation

October 1, 2015 Report

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School Leadership

Public Policy

Developing Excellent School Principals to Advance | Wallace Foundation

September 1, 2015 Report

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