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Form Your Future FAFSA Tracker

The #FormYourFuture FAFSA Tracker is an interactive data dashboard that tracks and ranks states’ progress toward 100% of their high school seniors completing the FAFSA and measures change year over year. The tracker shows weekly progress and allows for year-to-year comparisons at the national, state, city, school district, and school levels.

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  • College and Career Readiness
  • Publication
  • Tool
  • District
  • Educator
  • Intermediary
  • Principal
  • School Leader
  • The Comeback
  • College & Career Readiness
  • Engaging families in postsecondary planning
  • Postsecondary readiness and access

Formative Assessment in Distance Learning

An article that highlights formative resources including: 24 Digital Tools for Formative Assessment (Global Online Academy) and Clear feedback rules (video from High Tech High)

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  • Instructional leadership
  • Article (news or journal)
  • Educator
  • Formative Assessment

Formatively Assess Students

Included in a website called Teaching with Technology “How do I….?” This section provides digital tools for formative assessment.

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  • Education technology
  • Tool
  • Educator
  • Formative Assessment
  • Online Instruction

FormYourFuture FAFSA Tracker

Publicly sharing data about completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) will help schools and districts rally around a goal. Track FAFSA completion rates for your district or school with this dashboard from Forum Your Future and see year over year comparisons.

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  • Website
  • Educator
  • The Comeback
  • College & Career Readiness
  • Postsecondary match & fit
  • Postsecondary readiness and access

Forward Together: Building a Field that Works for Families.

The coronavirus pandemic revealed the necessity, the complexity, and the tremendous value of building strong ties between schools and families. To ensure continuity of learning, schools were forced to rely heavily on families and caregivers to support learning in the home.

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  • Family and community collaboration
  • Family and community engagement
  • Publication
  • Report (policy, research)
  • Community Organization
  • District
  • Educator
  • Intermediary
  • Principal
  • School Leader
  • Family and Community Collaboration

Fostering Family Engagement through Shared Leadership in The District, Schools, and Community

In this ethnographic case study, Ann M. Ishimaru examines how a collaboration emerged and evolved between a low-income Latino parent organizing group and the leadership of a rapidly changing school district. Using civic capacity and community organizing theories, Ishimaru seeks to understand the role of parents, goals, strategies, and change processes that characterize a school …

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  • Community building
  • Equity
  • Family and community collaboration
  • Family and community engagement
  • Two-way communication
  • Article (news or journal)
  • Report (policy, research)
  • District
  • School Leader
  • Family and Community Collaboration
  • Family Engagement
  • Family Support
  • Strategies for English Learners
  • Families
  • Keeping Students and Families Engaged
  • Anti-Racism, Bias, Relevance, Cultural Responsiveness
  • English Learner Strategies

FutureEd’s Blueprint for Testing 

A key to igniting learning is establishing the expectation that supports and interventions are designed to help bring students to grade-level content and skills.  Assess proximity to grade level at the start of the school year and design supports and interventions accordingly. FutureEd’s Blueprint for Testing guides districts through what assessments to prioritize (page 10) and use of assessment …

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  • Instructional leadership
  • Guide
  • District
  • Principal
  • School Leader
  • The Comeback
  • Classroom-based Learning Acceleration 
  • Igniting Learning

Getting to Work on Summer Learning Recommended Practices for Success

Rand’s second edition Getting to Work on Summer Learning provides recommendations for district leaders and their partners who are interested in launching or improving summer learning programs    Key suggestion: Commit in the fall to a summer program and begin planning and recruiting instructors by January.

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  • Positive youth development
  • Universal Design for Learning
  • Report (policy, research)
  • District
  • Intermediary
  • Principal
  • School Leader
  • The Comeback
  • Out-of-School and Summer Learning
  • Igniting Learning

Getting to Work on Summer Learning Recommended Practices for Success

Rand’s second edition Getting to Work on Summer Learning provides recommendations for district leaders and their partners who are interested in launching or improving summer learning programs. Key suggestions outlined on page ix include: Commit in the fall to a summer program and begin planning and recruiting instructors by January.  Select a director with the requisite time and authority to lead planning.  …

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  • summer learning
  • Report (policy, research)
  • District
  • Intermediary
  • Principal
  • School Leader
  • The Comeback
  • Summer Learning

Google app tutorials for students and families

Tutorials on both practical features such as parent settings and fun, engaging features such as drawing, backgrounds, and pop-up messages.

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  • Education technology
  • Training Material
  • Professional Development (PD)
  • Using Technology

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