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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TAP into Learning v1.1: Getting Started with Constructivism and Technology (1998)
This newsletter offers useful and highly practical information for K-12 educators wishing to use technology to support more constructivist learning approaches.

TAP into Learning v1.2: On the Road to Student-Centered Learning (1999)
This newsletter examines constructivism and some ways technology might be employed to support learning environments based on constructivist technology.

TAP into Learning v2.1: Communication: A Key to Learning (2000)
This newsletter offers useful and highly practical information for K-12 educators wishing to use technology to support more constructivist learning approaches.

TAP into Learning v2.2: Using What Learners Know (2000)
This newsletter examines "Using what Learners Know", a challenge for the teacher to engage students so that they feel their ideas and experiences are honored and so they believe that they have a stake in their own learning.

TAP into Learning v2.3 and v3.1: Knowledge under Construction (Double Issue) (2000)
This newsletter issue focuses on the role of social interaction in the construction of knowledge.

TAP into Learning v3.2: Learning is an Active and Reflective Process (2000)
This newsletter issue focuses on the role of social interaction in the construction of knowledge.

Teacher as Facilitator: Classroom Compass - Volume 1 Number 1 (1994)
This newsletter's main article, Working for Reform, looks at the idea of teacher as facilitator - a basic part of the reformed classroom.

Teacher Resources and Student Achievement in High-Need Schools (2006)
With the growing federal, state, and local policy emphasis on teacher quality and student achievement, the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) investigated teacher resources and their relationship to student achievement in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. The purpose of this study was to provide policymakers with information about the relationship between teacher salary, experience, and education, and the relationship between these teacher resources and student achievement, particularly in high-need schools.

Teaching for Diversity (1994)
This publication examines two related policy issues critical for teacher education: the need for teachers to teach increasingly diverse student populations, and the need to increase the numbers of racial and ethnic minority teachers.

Texas e-Plan: an Online Technology Plan Builder for Texas School Districts (2008)
Texas e-Plan is an online system for developing, submitting, reviewing, and approving technology plans. Every district, charter school, and education service center in TexasÑmore than 1,400 entitiesÑare required to submit their technology plans to TEA as of January 2004.

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Texas Focus: The Newsletter of the Texas Comprehensive Center (2009)
Meeting the goals of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is tough for everyone involved--schools, districts, and states. That's why the Texas Comprehensive Center (TXCC) is producing Texas Focus, a quarterly newsletter. Each edition will focus on challenges that Texas educators face. In addition, the newsletter offers a review of the TXCC's recent events and activities as well as national news regarding NCLB. We hope you will find information here that stimulates your thinking and increases your knowledge about resources, practices, and programs that support the achievement of the goals and purposes of NCLB.

Texas Focus, Vol. 1, No. 4 (2008): Collecting, Interpreting and Using Data in the Working Systemically Approach (2008)
This issue of Texas Focus, published by SEDL’s Texas Comprehensive Center, discusses the importance of data—including assessment data—in the Working Systemically model of school improvement.

Texas Framework for Languages Other Than English (1997)
This document serves as a resource for Languages Other Than English (LOTE) teachers as they implement the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Languages Other Than English (TEKS for LOTE).

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

The Arts and Afterschool Programs: A Research Synthesis (2008)
This research synthesis examines the intrinsic and extrinsic value of arts instruction in afterschool programs and the extent to which arts instruction enhances overall learning and academic achievement.

The Challenge of Evidence in Disability and Rehabilitation Research and Practice: A Position Paper (2009)
This paper states the position of the National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research (NCDDR) Task Force on Standards of Evidence and Methods (TFSE) regarding the need for (a) the thoughtful determination of research evidence on the basis of both the rigor of the research and the relevance of the research to the lives of people with disabilities; and (b) systems that facilitate our ability, on a timely basis, to describe what the best available evidence is in response to specific topical questions in disability and rehabilitation.

The Evaluation of Texas 21ST Century Community Learning Center Projects: Common Features of Promising Afterschool Programs in Texas Executive Summary (2006)
SEDL and Academic Information Management, Inc., conducted case studies and cross-case analyses to evaluate Texas 21st CCLC grantees in their second year of implementation. The evaluation study was designed to provide qualitative data that would contribute to a larger quantitative study of the grant program being conducted by the Texas Education Agency. SEDL identified and profiled promising 21st CCLC projects across Texas and examined common characteristics across the afterschool programs they implemented.

The National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning Randomized Controlled Trial Studies of Promising Afterschool Programs: Summary of Findings (2009)
SEDL provided analytic and technical support to three large-scale randomized controlled trials (RCT) assessing the effect of promising literacy curricula in afterschool settings on student academic achievement. This research brief, the last in a three-part series, presents an overview of the studies and a summary of the implementation and findings across the 2 years of funding.

The Professional Teaching and Learning Cycle: Introduction (2008)
The professional teaching and learning cycle (PTLC) is a professional development process in which teachers collaboratively plan and implement lessons aligned to state standards. PTLC is a critical component of the Working Systemically approach that directly impacts classroom instruction and student learning.

The Rhythm of Mathematics: Classroom Compass, Vol. 4, No. 2, (Fall 1998) (1998)
This issue of Classroom Compass focuses on the Alvord School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where instructors are using dance and music to make math more engaging for students.

The School-Family Connection: Looking at the Larger Picture, A Review of Current Literature (2008)
This review of family involvement literature published from 2005 to 2008 explores a range of family involvement programs, challenges, needs, strategies, and contexts.

Thriving Together: Connecting Rural School Improvement and Community Development (English) (2000)
This book provides the background information and basic tools needed to start a joint school-community development effort.

Tools for Transitions: Resources for Educators Helping Students Displaced by Hurricane Katrina (2005)
Students and their families who have been displaced by hurricane Katrina face a myriad of challenges, both personal and academic. In turn, the Texas schools now serving many of those students must find ways of helping student evacuees to succeed in an environment in which the curriculum may be as unfamiliar to them as the classroom and the faces in it. This set of training materials is intended to help address those challenges. It is designed for professional developers — regional Education Service Center staff, local curriculum supervisors, and others — who in turn will work with teachers whose classes include Katrina evacuees.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Phive Phones of Reading (2002)
This publication discusses the differences between the"phon" terms (phonics, phonetic spelling, phoneme awareness, phonological awareness, and phonology).

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Phonics Rules (1999)
This publication discusses the best approach for teaching children the system that is used for decoding English text.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Reading by Sight (1999)
This publication questions whether it is beneficial for children to memorize words as wholes when the goal of reading is to learn to break words down into parts.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Regular and Exception Words (1999)
This database, designed for teachers, contains exception words or irregular words -- words that are not spelled the way they sound.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: The Brain and Reading (2001)
This publication examines the workings of the brain during reading and it's implications for reading assessment and reading instruction.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: What is Reading? Decoding and the Jabberwocky's Song (2000)
This publication examines what it means when we talk about "the ability to read" and the need to define our terms more clearly.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: What Does a Balanced Literacy Approach Mean? (2001)
This publication asks the question, "What do children need to learn?" and focuses on whether Phonics instruction or Whole Language instruction should be used when teaching children to read.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Reading and the Three Cueing Systems (2001)
This publication focuses on the Three Cueing Systems model of word recognition.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Making Sense of Reading (2001)
This publication concentrates on teachers' conceptual understanding of reading and what parts of their reading instruction do or do not work.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Methods of Assessing Cognitive Aspects of Early Reading Development (2002)
This article helps teachers better understand what reading abilities need to be tested and how to go about testing the essential areas that are so important to reading development.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Ten Myths of Reading Instruction (2002)
This article examines 10 of the most popular and most potentially pernicious myths that influence reading education.

Topics in Early Reading Coherence Series (2000)
This series of briefing papers covers topics related to K–2 reading instruction, including “The Phive Phones of Reading,” “Reading by Sight,” “Regular and Exception Words,” and “Reading and the Three Cueing Systems.”

Total Quality: A Missing Piece for Educational Improvement: Issues About Change, Volume 3, Number 3 (1994)
This paper summarizes the Quality experiences of three educational organizations: an instructional services division, a school district, and a primary school. It also presents a lucid introduction to the Quality program while correlating its principles to school improvement strategies such as site-based decision-making.

Tough Love: State Accountability Policies Push Student Achievement (Insights on Education Policy, Practice, and Research, Number 11) (2000)
This paper reviews some of the assumptions, tensions, and lessons in the current accountability movement as well as the progress states in the region have made in implementing their accountability policies.