Publications
Reports & Report Series
Pagosa Springs Elementary School: A Study of Teachers’ Collaborative Use of Time
Pagosa Springs Elementary School: A Study of Teachers’ Collaborative Use of Time looks at the Pagosa Springs Elementary School located in the Town of Pagosa Springs, and how it organizes teacher time and work in innovative ways.
Reports & Report Series
Lessons for Developing School and District Capacity to Transform Literacy Instruction: The Canterbury Learning Collaborative
This retrospective study chronicles the progression of the Canterbury Learning Collaborative (CLC), a small group of educators who came together over a period of 10 years to learn with and from one another about how to strengthen their school leadership and teaching practices in order to improve student literacy.
Reports & Report Series
Redesigning State Policy for Meaningful and Equitable Learning: Lessons from California, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Vermont
How do differences in the policymaking process influence state policies and the implications for redesigning educational systems to achieve more meaningful and equitable learning opportunities for all children?
Reports & Report Series
It’s About Time: Organizing Schools for Teacher Collaboration and Learning
It’s About Time: Organizing Schools for Teacher Collaboration and Learning, looks at Hillsdale High School, a large, comprehensive high school located in San Mateo, California, organizes teacher time and work in innovative ways.
Books
How to Create the Conditions for Learning
SCOPE Associate Director, Ann Jaquith, PhD, presents a framework for how to understand and build instructional capacity, based on her original research in schools and districts and ideas drawn from the literature on resourcing and social learning.
Articles & Chapters
Educators - How are you managing multiple initiatives and shifting policies?
SCOPE researcher looks at approaches to strengthening educator leadership.
Briefs
International Teacher Policy Study - Country Briefs
Five policy briefs summarize the identified strategy components used in high-performing countries to ensure all students have high-quality professional teachers.
Briefs
International Teacher Policy Study - Policy Briefs
Five policy briefs summarize the identified strategy components used in high-performing countries to ensure all students have high-quality professional teachers.
Books
Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World
An international comparative study of teacher and teaching quality in the world’s top-performing education systems.
Articles & Chapters
How Do States Integrate Performance Assessments Into Their Systems of Assessment?
The strategies that 12 states used to integrate performance assessment into state systems of assessment.
Books
The Internal Coherence Framework: Creating the Conditions for Continuous Improvement in Schools
This book presents research-based practices for assessing and developing conditions that support student and adult learning in schools.
Articles & Chapters
Joint Inquiry: Teachers’ Collective Learning About the Common Core in High-Poverty Urban Schools
This article examines the nature of teachers’ collaborative work around common core standards and the conditions that support this work.
Tools & Infographics
Six Countries. Two Educational Strategies. One Consistent Conclusion.
"Six Countries. Two Educational Strategies. One Consistent Conclusion” is an infographic from SCOPE and the Schott Foundation. It graphically summarizes the differences in approaches and outcomes between privatization and public investment in education. The infographic is based on research found in the book, Global Education Reform.
Briefs
Privatization or Public Investment in Education?
Is the education sector better served by a public investment approach than by a market-based, competition approach?
Tools & Infographics
Educational Inequities in the New Orleans Charter School System
"Educational Inequities in the New Orleans Charter School System" is an infographic from SCOPE and the Schott Foundation that graphically summarizes the equity impact on students and schools of New Orleans becoming a predominantly charter district after Hurricane Katrina.
Books
Teacher Learning and Leadership, Of, By, and For Teachers
A unique partnership between a government education agency and a teachers’ union has positive outcomes for education reform.
Reports & Report Series
Student Engagement in Assessments: What Students and Teachers Find Engaging
Guidance for educators, assessment developers, and policymakers on increasing student engagement in performance-based assessments.
Articles & Chapters
Building Teacher and School Capacity to Teach to Ambitious Standards in High-Poverty Schools
Details of a district professional development initiative designed to support teachers in meeting the goals of Common Core State Standards.
Reports & Report Series
Turning Around Schools: The National Board Certification Process as a School Improvement Strategy
How the National Board certification process can be used as a school improvement strategy and support enriched teaching.
Tools & Infographics
Dimensions of Engagement: Definitions and Ways to Incorporate
This tool defines seven engagement dimensions such as collaboration and self-assessment. It provides suggestions and examples for incorporating each dimension into assessment tasks. For each dimension, the tool provides questions to consider and appended performance tasks as examples
