Administrator Effectiveness

Learning, Joy, and Equity: A New Framework for Elementary Education

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This report proposes a new framework for elementary education that builds on, and is informed by, previous foundational efforts, centered on children and the ways we know children learn, and disrupting well-documented, historically rooted, and contemporarily entrenched biases in learning systems. While there is no single ideal elementary school experience, there are core ingredients to […]

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Children Come First Series: Improved Equitable Early School Experiences

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The Region 6 Comprehensive Center Network at University of North Carolina-Greensboro leads a project to ensure school policies, practices, and strategies for our youngest learners (PreK-3rd grade) encompass what research and data tell us is essential to their successful development and learning. As part of this project, the Center has published a series of short

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Leading Learning Communities: A Principal’s Guide to Early Learning and the Early Grades (Pre-K–3rd Grade)

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The guide defines six competencies that guide elementary school principals to deepen their own knowledge related to Pre-K–3rd grade, and to reflect that knowledge through strong school leadership. This guide provides specific suggestions for principals to become more effective and visible leaders on behalf of young children. The National P-3 Center authored this guide, in

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At-Home Teaching and Learning in PreK-3rd Grade

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This document provides specific guidance related to school districts’ and elementary schools’ supports for at-home learning across the primary grades (PreK-3rd grade). This is not a compilation of e-resources. Rather, this document provides guidance about how to best support at-home learning, focusing on two fundamentals of effective teaching and learning in the early grades: child

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Framework for Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating P-3 Approaches

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This Framework anchors much of the work conducted by the National P-3 Center. It is designed to address key questions facing those who are developing and implementing comprehensive P-3 approaches in their school, district, or community. The Framework is divided into eight major “buckets” or categories of effort that require alignment within and between 0-5

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Building Cross-Sector P-3 Leaders: The Washington P-3 Executive Leadership Certificate Program

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In 2012, the National P-3 Center embarked on an innovative endeavor to increase the capacity in local school districts and communities around the state of Washington to implement high-quality P-3 (Pre-school through 3rd grade) reforms. With generous funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in February 2014, the Washington P-3 Executive Leadership Certificate Program

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Framework in Action: Administrator Effectiveness

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The Framework in Action series expands on the Framework for Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating P-3 Approaches and provides brief research reviews, practical strategies, and guidance for creating meaningful and tangible change in communities. Each Framework in Action corresponds with one of the eight buckets of alignment effort identified as essential to high-quality and comprehensive P-3

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Tradeoffs: Elementary Principals on Hiring and Staffing in the Early Grades

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This brief presents the argument that while staffing and hiring decisions are complex and tradeoffs need to be considered, principals should be careful not to undervalue the early elementary grades, inclusive of PreK, because the foundational skills built in these years are imperative to students’ future success in school and in life.

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A False Dichotomy: Elementary Principals on Academics and Play

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Research suggests that play, particularly up through 3rd grade, has become less prevalent in classrooms. The authors argue that with greater knowledge of child development and appropriate practices, principals would be more likely to understand that scaffolded play can and does lead to learning. In this brief, they conclude that principals who know best practices in

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