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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La creación de apoyo para mejores escuelas: Siete pasos para lograr la participación de todas las communidades (2000)
Esta guía es práctica y es diseñada para maestros, líderes cívicos, organizadores de la comunidad o cualquier persona que le interesa involucrar a las comunidades que tradicionalmente no participan en las escuelas.

Price: $4

La deliberación pública: Una forma de enlazar la reforma escolar con la diversidad cultural (1999)
Esta publicación cubre varios procesos de la deliberación pœblica con respecto a la reforma escolar y asuntos de diversidad.

Price: $10

La ley "No Child Left Behind" Opción de cambio de secuela: Guía informativa para padres de familia (2005)
The purpose of this guide is to help parents understand the school transfer option when a school has not met the standards required by the No Child Left Behind Act. Also available in Spanish.

La participación de la familia y la comunidad: El acercamiento a las diversas poblaciones (2000)
Este libro está dirigido a maestros, directores y superintendentes que desean generar el involucramiento significativo de los padres de familia y comunidad por parte de miembros comunitarios de diverso origen cultural y linguístico.

Price: $4

Latest Evidence on the National Staff Development Council's Standards Assessment Inventory (2009)
In 2003, SEDL developed the Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI) for the National Staff Development Council (NSDC), based on the NSDC's standards which reflect the theoretical foundations and promising practices in school-based professional development literature. This research brief summarizes SEDL's research and development on the SAI to date, with specific emphasis on its psychometric properties, and presents the latest evidence on how teacher professional development contributes to student achievement. After providing background information on the development of the SAI, this brief presents the current findings on whether identifiable factors emerged from teachers' responses on the SAI and whether teacher assessment of professional development using these factors were related to student learning. The findings are promising and provide researchers and educators more confidence that the SAI measure, when aggregated as a school-level summary variable, is a reliable and valid measure that has demonstrated significant associations with student academic achievement. Taken together, these findings are promising and encourage additional analyses to explore the potential of the SAI measuring a set of educationally meaningful constructs and their relationship to academic achievement of students in predictive models.

Launching Professional Learning Communities: Beginning Actions: Issues About Change, Volume 8, Number 1 (2000)
This briefing paper identifies themes that describe actions taken at schools to develop professional learning communities.

Leadership Characteristics that Facilitate Change (1992)
This guide explores the personal qualities that contribute to a person's leadership practices and examines how personal qualities influence educational leadership. The main topics discussed are some key leadership concepts, characteristics found in effective educational, and implications of these characteristics when leaders implement or initiate school change.

Leadership: An Imperative for Successful Change: Issues About Change, Volume 1, Number 2 (1991)
This paper reviews the literature on leaders' strategies for school change, identifies five strategies, and describes how the strategies are applied at the district and local school levels.

Leading Change from the Classroom: Teachers as Leaders: Issues About Change, Volume 4, Number 4 (1995)
This paper discusses what teacher leadership is, why it is important, and what we know about the working lives of teacher-leaders.

Learning Languages Other Than English: A Texas Adventure (2001)
The five-video series demonstrates how the Program Goals (5 Cs) of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Languages Other Than English (TEKS for LOTE) are being implemented in classrooms across the state.

Learning Outside of the School Classroom: What Teachers Can Do to Involve Family in Supporting Classroom Instruction (2004)
This strategy brief was produced by SEDL's National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools, part of SEDL's Regional Educational Laboratory contract. The Center links people with research-based information and resources that they can use to effectively connect schools, families, and communities.

Learning without Walls: Classroom Compass - Volume 5, Number 1 (2000)
This newsletter issue demonstrates some of the factors all good field trips share and what teachers, principals, and students can do to make sure a field experience enhances classroom learning.

Library of Knowledge Translation Resources (2009)
The Library of Knowledge Translation Resources is designed to provide information to researchers and interested members of the public about a wide spectrum of knowledge translation and evidence-based resources.

Literacy Profile Folder: How to Use the Literacy Profile (2001)
This brief guide demonstrates how to use the Literacy Profile Folder effectively in the classroom.

LOTE CED Lowdown (2003)
This newsletter contains news about topics of interest to language educators, LOTE CED activities, dates of professional conferences, information on teaching resources, and a spotlight on the TEKS for LOTE.

Louisiana Mathematics and Science Education Sources: Louisiana Landscape Paper (2003)
This landscape paper for teachers, principals and parents tracks down sources of help, information, and resources in science and mathematics education in Louisiana.