This free ebook offers a variety of perspectives and tools on how to improve schools. It describes best school practices, including strategies for addressing classroom behavior and individualizing instruction.
Adelman, Howard, and Linda Taylor. 2017. Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwide. Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Mental Health in Schools and Student Learning Supports. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED586985.pdf
This article describes the lack of an equity lens in the history of early childhood program quality rating systems. The authors address the flaws in quality rating systems (QRS) as they relate to equity for marginalized communities and offer suggestions for improvement of QRS toward a more equitable system of measuring quality in early childhood programs.
Meek, Shantel, Iheoma U. Iruka, Xigrid Soto-Boykin, Darielle Blevins, Brittany Alexander, Mario Cardona, and Dina Castro. 2022. Equity is Quality, Quality is Equity: Operationalizing Equity in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems. https://childandfamilysuccess.asu.edu/sites/default/files/2022-06/QRIS-report-062122.pdf (Accessed September 16, 2022).
This free ebook offers a variety of perspectives and tools on how to improve schools. It argues for a path toward personalized instruction and special assistance.
Adelman, Howard, and Linda Taylor. 2016. Improving School Improvement. Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Mental Health in Schools and Student Learning Supports. http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/improve.pdf
