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School Leadership

Early Efforts on Principal Pipelines Strategies to Improve Supply of and Support for School Leaders

November 11, 2015 Report

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School Leadership

Professional Standards for Educational Leaders 2015

November 1, 2015 Report

Experience Makes a Great Teacher

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

A group of mixed race and gender educators in a conference room, 3 of which sitting at a table having a discussion

Cross-Sector Collaboration

Putting Collective Impact Into Context A Review of the Literature on Local Cross-Sector Collaboration to Improve Education

October 1, 2015 Report

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School Leadership

Public Policy

Developing Excellent School Principals to Advance Teaching and Learning Considerations for State Policy

September 1, 2015 Report

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Arts

Opening New Doors Hands-On Participation Brings a New Audience to the Clay Studio

August 17, 2015 Report

Artists work on the Fleisher Mural.

Arts

Staying Relevant in a Changing Neighborhood How Fleisher Art Memorial is Adapting to Shifting Community Demographics

August 17, 2015 Report

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School Leadership

Making Time for Instructional Leadership The evolution of the SAM process

July 24, 2015 Report

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Afterschool

Growing Together, Learning Together What Cities Have Discovered about Building Afterschool Systems

July 1, 2015 Report

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Arts

Taking Out the Guesswork A Guide to Using Research to Build Arts Audiences

June 19, 2015 Report

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Afterschool

Foundations for Young Adult Success A Developmental Framework

June 1, 2015 Report

Making Space for New Leaders

School Leadership

Making Space for New Leaders

April 17, 2015 Article

Nine Principals

School Leadership

Nine Principals Share Their Successful Strategies for School Leadership

April 16, 2015 Article

Summary of Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice

Financial Management for Nonprofits

Summary of Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice

April 2, 2015 Article

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Arts

Getting Past "It’s Not for People Like Us" Pacific Northwest Ballet Builds a Following with Teens and Young Adults

March 11, 2015 Report

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Arts

Extending Reach with Technology Seattle Opera’s Multipronged Experiment to Deepen Relationships and Reach New Audiences

March 11, 2015 Report

A classroom with mixed race and gender students. One is reading a book at his desk, another is writing with a pencil in a book

Summer Learning

An Analysis of the Effects of an Academic Summer Program for Middle School Students

March 7, 2015 Report

A program that helps train principals around the country offers guidance, based on its approach, to others interested in school leader preparation.

School Leadership

Taking Charge of Principal Preparation A Guide to NYC Leadership Academy’s Aspiring Principals Program

February 12, 2015 Report

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Financial Management for Nonprofits

The Skills to Pay the Bills An Evaluation of an Effort to Help Nonprofits Manage Their Finances

February 1, 2015 Report

A school principal and administrators sit around a table in discussion.

School Leadership

Principal Pipeline

Building a Stronger Principalship, Vol. 3 Districts Taking Charge of the Principal Pipeline

January 1, 2015 Report

Singers of the Minnesota Opera bow for the audience at the end of the opening night of Arabella.

Arts

Someone Who Speaks Their Language How a Nontraditional Partner Brought New Audiences to Minnesota Opera

December 15, 2014 Report

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Summer Learning

Ready for Fall? Near-Term Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Students’ Learning Opportunities

December 1, 2014 Report

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School Leadership

Principal Supervisors

Beyond Buses, Boilers, and Books: Instructional Support for Principal Supervisors

November 9, 2014 Article

A female teacher sitting at a desk in an elementary school classroom, with a group of mixed race and gender students

School Leadership

Quality Measures: Partnership Effectiveness Continuum

November 1, 2014 Toolkit

Metro Nashville school buses take program students home after Nashville After Zone Alliance

Afterschool

America After 3PM Afterschool Programs in Demand

October 22, 2014 Report

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Arts

The Road to Results Effective Practices for Building Arts Audiences

October 6, 2014 Report

A group of mixed gender and race people standing around in a large room, talking

Afterschool

Differences a Day Can Make Exploring the Effects of an Abbreviated Intervention to Help Improve Financial Management for Youth-Serving Organizations

October 1, 2014 Report

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Afterschool

Grantmakers and Thought Leaders on Out-of-School Time Survey & Interview Report

July 9, 2014 Report

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Afterschool

Evaluate Your Afterschool Program

June 15, 2014 toolkit

A Wallace Update offers key findings from research and the experiences of arts groups about engaging and building audiences.

Arts

Thriving Arts Organizations, Thriving Arts What We Know About Building Audiences for the Arts and What We Still Have to Learn

May 12, 2014 Report

A report and case study investigate how advocacy organizations and their funders can influence education policy in the U.S.

School Leadership

Public Policy

New Education Advocacy Organizations in the U.S. States National Snapshot and a Case Study of Advance Illinois

May 9, 2014 Report

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Financial Management for Nonprofits

Scaling Up, Staying True A Wallace Conference Report on Spreading Innovations in Expanded Learning

April 12, 2014 Report

This report discusses findings from year two of a five-year evaluation of The After-School Corporation (TASC)’s model for expanding the school day.

Social and Emotional Learning

Institutionalizing ExpandED Schools: Evaluation Findings from the Second Year of TASC’s National Demonstration

April 1, 2014 Report

Think Summer

Summer Learning

December 4, 2013 Article

School Leadership

Make Room for the Principal Supervisors

December 1, 2013 Article

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School Leadership

Principal Pipeline

Building a Stronger Principalship, Vol. 2 Cultivating Talent Through a Principal Pipeline

December 1, 2013 Report

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Summer Learning

Staying On Track Testing Higher Achievement’s Long-Term Impact on Academic Outcomes and High School Choice

November 12, 2013 Report

Something to Say

Arts Education

Something to Say Success Principles for Afterschool Arts Programs From Urban Youth and Other Experts

November 5, 2013 Report

2 mixed race young girls playing the violin. The Merit School of Music's summer programming

Arts Education

Expanding Learning, Enriching Learning Portraits of Five Programs

November 1, 2013 Report

Leading Schools Through Major Change

School Leadership

Leading Schools Through Major Change: Principals and the Common Core

October 14, 2013 Article

Findings from two surveys, fielded six years apart, provide indications that large school districts nationwide are redesigning the principal supervisor job to focus more on principal support.

School Leadership

Rethinking Leadership The Changing Role of Principal Supervisors

October 1, 2013 Report

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Afterschool

Is Citywide Afterschool Coordination Going Nationwide? An Exploratory Study in Large Cities

September 1, 2013 Report

Strength Training

School Leadership

Strength Training: Aspiring Principals Need Fortified Programs to Train Them for the Challenges They Face

August 1, 2013 Article

Two girls sit at a laptop designing a digital character.

Arts Education

New Opportunities for Interest-Driven Arts Learning in a Digital Age

July 1, 2013 Report

School Leadership

Principal Pipeline

Six Districts Begin the Principal Pipeline Initiative

July 1, 2013 Report

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Afterschool

Better Together Building Local Systems to Improve Afterschool (A Conference Report)

July 1, 2013 Report

Three children work on their paintings in front of a string of drying art.

Arts Education

Advancing Arts Education through an Expanded School Day Lessons from Five Schools

June 1, 2013 Report

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