NEW RESEARCH
- Strategic Plan Implementation Framework — Strategic planning helps school districts achieve organizational alignment, connect stakeholders to a purpose, and address areas for improvement. This outline summarizes key considerations when building a new plan and provides an effective template to identify objectives, assign responsibilities, and evaluate progress.
- Benchmarking Equity Director Roles and Responsibilities — This report summarizes job descriptions and related information to inform the hiring and performance management process for a new equity director. Key findings include common responsibilities, specific problems to address around inclusivity, test scores, and workforce diversity, and levels with reporting structures to consider.
STUDENT SUPPORT & INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
- Research Brief: Online Learning and Student Screen Time — The brief includes information on general benefits and challenges of using devices for education, effects of screen time on students’ cognitive and academic abilities and physical and social-emotional health, and screen time recommendations from recent literature and industry professionals.
- Research Brief: Preparing for Post-COVID-19 Student Reengagement — This report offers strategies for planning for learning loss; discusses how students returning to school after an extended illness, natural disaster, or traumatic experience struggle with re-engagement and learning loss; and recommends specific strategies for re-engaging students following disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic.