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.

There are 343 free resources available to you.

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Calling the Roll: A Resource Guide to Education-Related Data in Arkansas (1998)
This resource guide was produced by SEDL to accompany study circles in Arkansas.

Calling the Roll: A Resource Guide to Education-Related Data in Oklahoma (1998)
This resource guide was produced by SEDL to accompany study circles in Oklahoma.

Calling the Roll: Study Circles for Better Schools (video) (1999)
This videotape provides information about the study circle model of dialogue and what it offers to community members, school staffs, policymakers, and others who are interested in organizing community dialogues on education to inform policymaking.

Calling the Roll: Study Circles for Better Schools (Policy Research Report) (2000)
This report discusses the efficiency of study circles in increasing interaction between the public and state decision makers.

Case Studies of Rural Schools Implementing Comprehensive School Reform Models (2004)
Small, rural schools will likely continue to educate significant portions of students in the U.S. while facing the challenges of limited resources, isolation, declining enrollments, aging facilities, limited curricula, and diminishing political influence. These challenges prompted the question of whether small, rural schools could benefit from CSR grants. The study addressed two major objectives. Will small, rural schools be able to utilize additional funds to adopt and implement a comprehensive school improvement effort? If these small, rural schools are able to garner the additional resources and implement a comprehensive school reform model, will such efforts positively impact student learning?

Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) Publications: The CBAM publications are available for sale in the SEDL store. Click here to access a list of CBAM publications.
*Charter Schools:* *Early Learnings (Insights on Education Policy, Practice, and Research, Number 5)* (1995) This concise policy brief examines six challenges developers encounter when planning and implementing charter schools and offers direction for those crafting legislation and developing school charters.

Classroom Compass (2002)
Produced by SEDL's Southwest Consortium for the Improvement of Mathematics and Science Teaching from 1994 to 2005, this newsletter provided instructional ideas, activities, and resources for math and science teachers. Archived issues are available online.

Classroom Compass (Mar. 2002): Promoting Diversity, Valuing Difference (2002)
The March 2002 issue discusses ways in which to engage a wider range of students with diverse backgrounds, interests, and experiences in solving mathematical problems.

Classroom Compass (Sept. 2002): Getting to the Heart of the (Subject) Matter (2002)
If you've tuned in to discussions about reforming mathematics and science instruction, you've probably heard about "teaching for understanding," or "teaching to the big ideas." This issue of Classroom Compass explores the meaning behind these catchphrases and the implications for teachers and the educational system that supports—or impedes—teachers' efforts at reform.

Classroom Compass, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring 1996): Assessment: A Window to Learning (1996)
This issue of Classroom Compass, a newsletter for teachers, focuses on assessment as an integral part of the learning cycle.

Classrooms Under Construction: Integrating Student-Centered Learning with Technology (2000)
This video portrays students, teachers, and principals from culturally diverse schools across the Southwest in the process of constructing learner-centered classrooms using technology. Originally recorded in 2000, the video may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

Closing the Texas Achievement Gap (2005)
This Web portal was created to address the need for information relevant to the disparity in mathematics and science achievement among different student populations. It is intended for educators at all levels, as well as policymakers, researchers, parents, and members of the business community. Developers of this site seek to encourage active involvement of these many stakeholders in solving this persistent problem. In support of this, the site provides definitions and descriptive data, discusses the roles of various groups, and highlights successful approaches to ensuring a quality mathematics and science education for all students.

Co-Developers: Partners in a Study of Professional Learning Communities: Issues About Change, Volume 8, Number 2 (2000)
This publication reports one aspect of a national study focusing on the concept and development of Co-Developers in the Creating Communities of Continuous Inquiry and Improvement (CCCII) project at Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL).

Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read: A Framework (2000)
This book provides a concise summary of the research findings related to how children learn to read. A graphical representation of the framework is provided to familiarize teachers with the cognitive elements that research has shown to be essential in learning to read.

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Collaborative Action Team Process: Bringing home, school, community, and students together to improve results for children and families: Final Research Report (2000)
This publication is the final report from the Collaborative Action Team (CAT) project and includes information about participants, characteristics and implementation of the CAT process, research design and methodology, site characteristics, sustainability, student outcomes, results in CAT sites, and implications and recommendations.

Comprehensive School Improvement: Addressing the Challenges: Issues About Change, Volume 9, Number 1 (2000)
This publication, coupled with current nationwide interest in encouraging schools to adopt comprehensive reform strategies or programs, urgently communicates the need for school improvement.

Confronting and Managing Culture in a Changing Environment: Issues About Change, Volume 5, Number 4 (1995)
This paper explains how a visionary superintendent restructured a junior high school into a middle school in a largely Hispanic New Mexico small town.

Connecting Student Learning and Technology (1999)
This guide provides teachers with suggestions for using computers as instructional tools and discusses using technology in environments that support learning.

Connection Collection (2009)
This searchable, online database includes annotations for over 140 articles, monographs, and other literature related to school, family, and community involvement in education.

Constructing Foundations for Success: Implications of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel Report (2009)
The objectives of this forum included understanding implications of key recommendations of National Mathematics Panel Report (NMPR), connecting key NMPR recommendations to current work and state initiatives, and developing strategies for coordinated, leveraged actions across state initiatives that address key recommendations.

Constructivism: Classroom Compass - Volume 1 Number 3 (1995)
This newsletter for teachers explores constructivism and the constructivist theory of learning, including a brief literature summary and suggestions for the constructivist classroom.

Consumers Guide to Afterschool Science Resources (2008)
The Consumers Guide to Afterschool Science Resources was created to provide information about sources of high-quality, hands-on science content for afterschool programs. After identifying nominations that seemed most promising, we engaged a panel of afterschool and science content experts to review the resources and provide the commentary presented in the guide.

Continuity in Early Childhood: A Framework for Home, School, and Community Linkages (1995)
This document focuses on what a community can do to support families with young children.

Cooperative Learning: Classroom Compass - Volume 1 Number 2 (1994)
This newsletter for teachers discusses models and resources for getting students to work together in cooperative learning.

Corrective Action in Low-Performing Schools and School Districts (2001)
This publication summarizes formal state plans to improve low-performing schools.

Correlates of Successful Implementation and School Change: An Annotated Bibliography (2000)
This bibliography contains valuable references pertaining to the topics of change and implementation in schools, as used in the development of a survey instrument by SEDL's "Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration" project.

Creating a Context for Change: Issues About Change, Volume 2, Number 2 (1992)
This publication describes 17 indicators of a school context that supports change and provides advice from educators who have successfully implemented improvements.

Creating Collaborative Action Teams: Working Together for Student Success (2000)
This multi-media kit is a set of concepts, activities, and resources that individuals, school districts and other organizations can use to develop a partnership between home, school, community, and students at the local level.

Creating New Governance Structures (1994)
This publication discusses the trend toward increasing local participation in designing and implementing new structures for education, health, and human services delivery and provides examples taken from California, Colorado, and Kentucky.

Creative Geometry (2001)
This video episode depicts fourth graders creating creatures using geometric shapes, which are e-mailed to high school students who then use computer programs to create them. Originally recorded in 2001, the video may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

CSRD Connections: Whatever it Takes: The Challenge of Comprehensive Reform (2000)
This newsletter will bring you articles and discussions about implementation of school reform programs that will help support you through your first year of reform efforts and beyond.

CSRD Connections: Strategies for Change: Implementing a Comprehensive School Reform Program (2000)
This newsletter bring you articles and discussions about implementation of school reform programs that will help support you through your first year of reform efforts and beyond.

CSRD Connections: Taking the Lead: The Role of the Principal in School Reform (2000)
This publication brings you articles and discussions about implementation of school reform programs that will help support you through your first year of reform efforts and beyond.