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Afterschool

Afterschool Systems Show Promise for Learning and Enrichment

September 21, 2017 Article

Arts

Making a Case for Investment in the Arts

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 Costs and Other Resources

June 1, 2017 Report

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School Leadership

Principal Pipeline

Leader Tracking Systems Turning Data Into Information for School Leadership

June 1, 2017 Report

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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 their 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 A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Communities In Schools

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 Final Findings From the Communities In Schools Random Assignment Evaluation

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 Selecting, Designing, and Implementing Evidence-Based School Leadership Interventions

January 1, 2017 Report

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Afterschool

The Value of Out-of-School Time Programs

January 1, 2017 Report

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Social and Emotional Learning

Evaluation of Citizen Schools’ Expanded Learning Time Model Final Report

December 11, 2016 Report

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Social and Emotional Learning

Social and Emotional Learning 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 The Principal Pipeline Initiative in Action

October 1, 2016 Report

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Summer Learning

Learning from Summer Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth

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

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