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Education First’s publication library offers curated documents, toolkits, policy memos and templates that have served our clients around the country and are now available to support you. Use these resources to guide your strategic planning, to stay fresh on hot-topic reform areas, to improve your planning and implementation at the state or local levels and to inform grantmaking strategies and investments in areas that will improve student outcomes.

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Social & Emotional Learning: Looking Back, Aiming Forward
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Making the Most of ESSA: Opportunities to Advance STEM Education
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Teacher Preparation Transformation Centers Learning Series: Introduction
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Investing in Title II-A: Strengthening School and Teacher Leadership
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State Teacher Leadership Toolkit
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Creating Great Schools For Washington Students
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Effective Practices for Postsecondary Student Success in California
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Social and Emotional Learning: Why Students Need It. What Districts are Doing About It.
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The Common Core Standards & Assessment Landscape
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Let’s Get This Conversation Started
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Inside the Schoolhouse – Delaware Education Progress
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Choices and Trade-offs
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Making the Most of the Every Student Succeeds Act
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Formative Assessment in the Classroom: Findings from Three Districts
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How Funder Collaborations Flourish: Lessons from the Common Core Standards
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Districts Rising Briefs
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Districts Rising Briefs – Previous
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Aldine Independent School District: Pursuing Equity for Two Decades (and Counting)