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Throughout 2012, the National Mentoring Center at Education Northwest will be collaborating with several other leading organizations in the youth mentoring field to deliver a series of webinars on innovations and best practices in youth mentoring.

An introductory module that will assist teachers, administrators, and leaders of kindergarten through high school in building an understanding of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics.

Education Northwest and the Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center hosted a two-day symposium designed to help schools, districts, and states prepare to implement the Common Core State Standards.

A series published by Education Northwest that distills and shares research and experience from the field.

Resources from a “Bridge Event” designed to connect researchers, policymakers, and practitioners—held on August 12, 2010, in Eugene, Oregon.

Small learning community and small school reform efforts have begun to falter in light of evaluations showing stalled implementation and limited impacts. However, this Lessons Learned brief gives reasons why these reforms are useful when coupled with further instructional improvements.

Session materials from the 2010 From Structure to Instruction event.

PowerPoint slides and video clips from recent conference sessions delivered by Education Northwest's Mathematics Unit

Resources from a “Bridge Event” designed to connect researchers, policymakers, and practitioners—held on February 17, 2010 in Portland, Oregon

This charter schools leadership training collection resulted from a three-year project to develop resource materials, working with a team of charter school experts (founders, operators, researchers, state education agencies, charter schools associations, and an attorney).

In response to the challenges of collecting data on post secondary outcomes, this guide helps high schools identify efficient and cost-effective strategies to find out what happens to their students after graduation. Readers get step-by-step guidance on how to collect postsecondary data using state longitudinal data systems, StudentTracker data warehouse, and student surveys

This summary defines and reviews research on the effectiveness of small learning communities, and organizes the practices effective communities use into five domains of best practice. The article outlines a process of continuous program improvement that schools use to move their small learning communities closer to these best practices.

This article reviews a pattern of sustained growth and consolidation in organizing high schools into smaller learning communities over the last four decades. The article identifies instances where redesign has failed as a result of incomplete implementation, limited scope, and insufficient reorganization of resources, as well as examples of deeply rooted districtwide transformation.

This article profiles two high schools that have met the challenge to prepare students for postsecondary options. The schools require all students to take rigorous mathematics and science courses and provide them with the support they need to succeed.

This article looks at school leaders that have been successful in shifting professional support toward effective teaching through embedded learning opportunities for teachers that promote focused collaboration around student achievement.

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