A-Z List of Free SEDL Publications

Below is a list of SEDL publications available free online. There are additional publications available in the SEDL Store, where SEDL lists the publications available for sale.

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A Best-Fit Approach to Effective Teacher Policy: (Insights on Education Policy, Practice, and Research, Number 17) (2004)
In this issue of Insights, SEDL invited Jennifer King Rice, Ph.D. to share her best-fit decision making approach to improving teacher resources. This issue describes her model and provides guidance on its use.

A Description of SEDL's Intensive Sites: Working Systemically to Create High-Performing Learning Communities (2002)
This paper provides a report of the field sites identified by SEDL for its school improvement work across the five-state region of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas during 2000-2005. SEDL developed a scope of work with these sites that responded to the U.S. Department of Education's request for proposals to "transform low-performing schools into high-performing learning communities." The first section of the paper is a brief commentary about the preparation that SEDL undertook for identifying the districts within the five states, and the criteria for the selection of sites. A second section gives a brief account of the experiences of SEDL in recruiting the sites and its entry and planned work in the sites. The third section identifies and describes the sites in which SEDL is working, and the status of the work at each of the sites at the end of FY01; this section is the major focus of this report.

A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002)
This review of the research examines the growing evidence that family and community connections with schools make a difference in student success.

Price: $26

A Toolkit for Title I Parental Involvement (2009)
Designed for educators who are implementing Title I, Part A parental involvement provisions, this toolkit includes detailed explanations of the provisions and 33 tools to help states, districts, and schools meet the requirements.

Active Learning with Technology Video Series (2000)
These ten videos were designed as part of the Active Learning with Technology (ALT) professional development portfolio and provide examples of effective uses of technology in classroom instruction. Originally recorded from 1999-2004, the videos may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

Afterschool Curriculum Choice: Literacy Resources (2008)
This online database provides access to high-quality literacy resources related to afterschool and expanded learning.

Afterschool Curriculum Choice: Mathematics Resources (2008)
This online database provides access to high-quality mathematics resources related to afterschool and expanded learning.

Afterschool Curriculum Choice: Technology Resources (2008)
This online database provides access to high-quality technology resources related to afterschool and expanded learning.

Afterschool Lesson Plan Database (2008)
This online database contains fun and enriching lesson plans for afterschool projects in the arts, literacy, mathematics, science, and technology. Expanded learning practitioners can also submit their favorite lesson plans for consideration.

Afterschool Training Toolkit: Building Quality Enrichment Activities (2008)
This online toolkit provides resources for developing fun, innovative, and academically enriching activities for afterschool and expanded learning programs. The toolkit includes promising practices and sample lessons in the arts, literacy, math, science, technology, and homework help.

Afterschool Training Toolkit DVD: Short Videos of Promising Practices in Afterschool (2008)
Brief videos illustrate promising teaching techniques in six key areas: the arts, homework, literacy, math, science, and technology. Use these free videos with afterschool staff to explore new ways to embed academics in fun afterschool activities.

Price: $0

AfterWords (2009)
AfterWords is the monthly e-newsletter of the National Center for Quality Afterschool. The award-winning newsletter provides up-to-date research on high-quality afterschool and expanded learning practices and methods that instructors and site coordinators can use to implement the practices in their own programs.

Alignment in SEDL's Working Systemically Model (2004)
In December, 2000, the U.S. Department of Education awarded the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) a 5-year research and development (R&D) contract to develop and refine a systemic model to improve student achievement in reading or mathematics in low-performing districts and schools. The Working Systemically model is based on the premise that student achievement will improve as districts and schools build their capacity to work systemically. This report describes 2003-2004 school year activities taken to implement the model in a sample of sites in the southwest region; reports on the districts' and schools' progress to align their curriculum, instruction, and assessment with state standards (one critical aspect of working systemically); and presents preliminary student achievement data for the sites.

Alternative Learning Environments: (Insights on Education Policy, Practice, and Research, Number 6) (1995)
This report spells out sensible goals for alternative schooling and the traits found in successful alternative education programs.

Annotated Bibliography of Resources: for educational reform, coherent teaching practice, and improved student learning (1999)
This database of reference materials provides resources for professionals to utilize in developing an understanding of issues related to educational reform, coherent teaching practice, and improved student learning.

Arkansas Education Renewal Zones Initiative - 2007 Final Evaluation Report (2007)
SEDL staff conducted a multiyear evaluation of the ERZ initiative in eight sites across the state of Arkansas. The evaluation included both formative and summative data collection and reporting functions. The primary goals of the evaluation were to document the context in which the ERZ initiative takes place in each site, the implementation of the initiative according to the guidelines specified in the legislation, and the short- and long-term outcomes resulting from the implementation of the initiative.

Arkansas Mathematics and Science Education Sources: Arkansas Landscape Paper (2002)
This paper contains material to track down sources of help, information, and resources in science and mathematics education in Arkansas.

Assessing a School Staff as a Community of Professional Learners: Issues About Change, Volume 7, Number 1 (1999)
This paper discusses how to use an instrument to assess how well a school staff functions as a team and works collegially so that students might become more successful learners.

Assessment Resources for Native American Learners (2000)
This is a list of assessment resources for Native American Learners.

Authentic Algebra (2001)
This video episode depicts high school students engaged in three group activities designed to apply algebraic concepts to authentic activities. Originally recorded in 2001, the video may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.