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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Making Assessment Work for Everyone: How to Build on Student Strengths (2000)
This publication provides teachers with research information and practical ideas for modifying assessments to make them more effective.

Price: $15

Making Consistent Decisions about Accommodations for English Language Learners: Research Summit Proceedings (2008)
In March 2009, researchers and practitioners convened in Austin, Texas, for a research summit on linguistic accommodations in instruction and on assessments for English language learners (ELLs). This online publication describes the proceedings and outcomes of the summit.

Making Education Dollars Work: Understanding Resource Allocation (Insights on Education Policy, Practice, and Research, Number 14) (2001)
This policy brief introduces state policymakers to information about current practice and research on education resource allocation and heightens awareness of the issues and concerns regarding this topic.

Making the Connection: A Guide to Involving Policymakers in a Community Dialogue on Education (2000)
This booklet is designed for anyone who is interested in bringing state policymakers and their constituents together to dialogue and deliberate about public education.

Making the Most of the Connection: A Policymaker's Guide to Participating in a Community Dialogue on Education (2000)
This booklet is designed to serve as a handy guide to participating with constituents in community dialogues on education.

Maryetta School: The Center of a Rural Community: Issues About Change, Volume 5, Number 1 (1995)
This paper six key leadership strategies that led to academic improvements and high parental involvement at an award-winning, rural Oklahoma school where 82 percent of the students are American Indians.

Measuring Change Facilitator Stages of Concern: A Manual for Use of the CFSoC Questionnaire (1991)
This book is for use with change facilitators such as principals, staff developers, and teacher leaders who have concerns that are identical in dynamics to those on the front-line of educational innovation.

Price: $18

Mentoring Beginning Teachers: Lessons from the Experience in Texas (2000)
This paper contains research on teacher mentoring programs as a strategy to address beginning teacher quality and retention.

Multiple Mirrors: Reflections on the Creation of Professional Learning Communities (2000)
This publication is a collection of stories written by the co-developers who worked with SEDL in assisting schools to create professional learning communities in a sample of schools.