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Assessment
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
- Assessing Fidelity of Implementation
- Assessing Student Learning
- Assessing System Needs and Effectiveness
- Assessment Practices in MTSS
- Assessment Purposes: Assessment for Learning
- Assessment Purposes: Assessment of Learning
- Diagnostic Assessment
- Including Students' Voices
- References
- Setting the Stage
- Systematic Progress Monitoring
- Using Data in Ohio's Leadership Teams
- Using Off-the-Shelf Assessments

Board Development and Governance Process
Last Updated: November 15, 2022
- Connecting with District Leadership
- Creating a Vision
- Developing Policy with a Focus on Student Learning
- Fostering an Open, Inquiry-Focused Culture
- Investing in Professional Learning
- Monitoring Progress and Taking Corrective Action
- Practicing Unified Governance
- Setting Goals
- Setting the Stage
- Sponsoring Measurement and Action to Achieve Equity and Inclusiveness
- Using Data

Coaching
Last Updated: October 13, 2025
- Introduction
- Summary
- Team Coaching
- Three Types of Coaching in Ohio
- What Coaching is and What It Isn’t

Curriculum
Last Updated: November 14, 2022
- Curriculum Adaptation
- Curriculum Coherence
- Curriculum Development As Part of the Ohio Improvement Process
- Curriculum Planning Across Levels of the System
- Deep Engagement with Complex Knowledge
- Designing and Developing Curriculum
- Going Beyond 'the Facts'
- High Expectations / Expanding Options
- Learning Standards
- References
- The Broad View of Curriculum: What Is Learned
- The Politics of Curriculum
- The Teacher-Curriculum Partnership
- Using Textbooks Well
- What is Curriculum?

Educational Equity: Understanding Why It’s So Important
Last Updated: August 21, 2023
- Additional Resources for Efforts to Foster Educational Equity
- Five Facts
- Introducing Equity and Diversity
- Racism, Impoverishment, and Ohio’s School Children
- Summary

Family and Community Engagement
Last Updated: June 23, 2025
- Connections Across Community Engagement Types
- Cultivating the Extended Family Approach
- Engaging All Families
- Implementing Partnership
- Possibilities
- Public Schools and the Making of "The Public"
- References
- Strategic Choices and Planning for Community Engagement
- Summary
- The Challenge of Engaging Families: Children First or Students First?
- The Challenges
- Two Outlooks on Community Engagement
- What Is Family and Community Engagement?
- When the Extended Family Approach Works Well

Higher Education: Instructional Guide to Using OLAC and Moving Your Numbers Resources in Educator Preparation Courses
Last Updated: May 4, 2023
- Designing Activities from OLAC Resources
- Finding Teaching Cases Applicable for Teacher and Administrator Preparation Courses
- Higher Education Instructional Guide
- How an Understanding of the Ohio Improvement Process Can Help Preservice Educators
- Introduction
- OLAC Resources for Teaching about TBTs and BLTs
- Summary

Implementation Science
Last Updated: September 6, 2022
- Active Implementation Frameworks
- Change Technologies and IS
- Five Active Implementation Frameworks
- Making Implementation Happen: Technical and Adaptive Challenges
- Summary of Main Points
- The Implementation Science Origin Story
- Three Key Concepts

Instruction
Last Updated: September 11, 2023
- Designing Instructional Materials
- Effective Instructional Practices Keyed to Instructional Events
- Explicit Instruction
- High-Leverage Instructional Practices
- Increasing Opportunities to Learn
- Using Effective Teaching Strategies: A Synthesis
- Ways to Determine Which Instructional Practices Are Effective
- What is Effective Instruction?
- What is “Opportunity to Learn?”
- “What Works” Generally?

Leadership
Last Updated: October 9, 2025
- Case Study of a District that Uses High-Leverage Leadership Practices: Val Verde Unified School District
- Case Study: Mr. Ex and Mr. Why
- Distributed Leadership
- Equity-Oriented Leadership
- Instructional Leadership
- Instructional Leadership Frameworks: District and School Practices
- Leadership Theories
- Leadership and Educational Reform: Focus on Teaching and Learning
- Nine Conditions for Whole District Reform
- Ohio's Leadership Development Framework
- References
- Transformational Leadership

Leadership for Early Childhood Care and Education
Last Updated: September 23, 2022
- Administrative Leadership and Management in Early Childhood Care and Education
- Child Development and Play
- Child Development to Age 8: Engaging Research and the Spirit of Inquiry
- Community and Pedagogical Leadership in Early Childhood Care and Education
- Conceptual and Strategic Leadership of Early Child Care and Education
- ECE and Literacy
- ECE and Mathematics
- Families as Assets
- Introduction
- Leadership of the Field of Early Childhood Care and Education
- References
- Summary

Leadership to Support Students’ Mental Health
Last Updated: October 10, 2023
- Leading for Students’ Mental Health
- Promising Initiatives
- Recent Challenges
- References
- Strategies for Connecting School Districts and Mental Health Providers
- Summary
- Systemic Issues for Mental Health Services in the US
- The Challenge of Building Connections
- Why Students’ Mental Health is a Concern of Educators

Leading Literacy
Last Updated: June 16, 2025
- Assessing Literacy Across Grades
- Capacity-building for Improved Literacy Instruction
- Capacity-building for Using Evidence-based Literacy Instruction
- High-quality Professional Development (PD)
- Implementation Science
- Improvement Depends on Using the Right Data
- Inclusive Practice: Teaching to the Edges
- Introduction
- Leadership Coaching
- Leading Literacy Improvement: The Concept
- Levels of Student Assessment Data
- Making Strategic Decisions as a Literacy Leader
- Ohio’s Plan to Raise Literacy Achievement
- Organizational Support for High-quality Literacy Instruction
- The Role of Leadership Teams
- The Science of Reading
- The Walkthrough

Learning Supports
Last Updated: June 7, 2023
- Cultural Responsiveness
- Integrated Comprehensive Systems
- Introduction
- Methods That Modify Instructional Content: Part Two
- Summary
- The Role Assessment Plays in MTSS Implementation
- Universal Design for Learning

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Last Updated: August 15, 2022
- Fidelity of Implementation
- How Fidelity Works in PBIS
- Introducing Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
- Leadership for PBIS Implementation
- PBIS Outcomes
- References
- Sustainability and Cautions
- The Main Resource Hubs

Resource Management
Last Updated: February 13, 2023
- Central Office Transformation and Principles Guiding Resource Allocation
- Does Money Matter?
- Human Capital Management
- Implementation Science and Resource Allocation
- Professional Capital
- Resource Equity
- Service Delivery Models

Shared Accountability
Last Updated: August 11, 2025
- Accountability and Shared (Distributed) Leadership
- Accountability from the Perspective of Educators
- Building Leadership Teams (BLTs)
- Coherence and Improvement
- Conclusion
- DLTs, BLTs, and TBTs: Shared Leadership and Accountability
- District Leadership Teams (DLTs)
- Essential Capacity Building
- Internal Accountability: Reciprocal
- Internal Accountability: Shared, Professional, and Individual
- References
- Summary
- Teacher-based Teams (TBTs)
- The Ohio Context

TBTs: Bottom-Up and Top-Down
Last Updated: September 19, 2022
- Breaking Down Silos
- It's All About Learning
- Key TBT Processes
- Linking the Teams: Aligning the Work
- Processes to Support TBT Effectiveness
- Purpose
- References
- Structures to Support TBT Effectiveness
- Summary
- TBT Membership
- The District Leadership Context
- What Makes TBTs Effective?

Teams Using Data Wisely
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
- Collective Efficacy: What It Means
- Finding Data Analysis Tools: Part 2
- How Teams Do It: The Big Picture
- How to Avoid Common Data Mistakes
- How to Conduct a Root Cause Analysis
- How to Own Equity Data
- How to Own the Data: Takeaways
- How to Own the Meaning of Data
- How to Secure Additional Data Help
- Key Data Practices for Leadership Teams
- References
- The “How” for Teams in General: Owning the Data
- The “What” of Teams Using Data Wisely
- Why Use Data?

The Collaborative Process
Last Updated: August 20, 2025
- Challenges
- Collaboration Defined
- Collaboration and Inquiry
- Creating Structures for Collaboration
- How to Help Struggling Teams
- Making Collaboration Work in Districts and Schools
- Norms and Procedures for Online Collaboration
- References
- Roles and Responsibilities to Support Learning
- Setting the Stage
- Summary
- Support for the Work of Teams
- Team Development
- Team Membership and Roles

Trauma Informed Practice
Last Updated: September 20, 2023
- Appreciating Trauma At School
- Compassion And Trauma In Schools
- Informing Education
- Keeping Purpose And Evidence In Mind
- Trauma-informed Practice For BLTs
- Trauma-informed Practice For TBTs
- What Does Trauma-informed Education Look Like?
- What Is Trauma?

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Designing High-Quality Teaching and Learning Online: The Big Ideas
Last Updated: February 23, 2021
- Designing High-Quality Teaching and Learning Online: The Big Ideas

Education for Social Justice
Last Updated: January 27, 2020
- Education for Social Justice

External Accountability Testing
Last Updated: May 16, 2023
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Handling Data in Ohio Leadership Teams
Last Updated: June 15, 2020
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Helping Families and Communities: Building on Lessons Learned from the Pandemic
Last Updated: April 1, 2021
- Helping Families and Communities: Building on Lessons Learned from the Pandemic

High Quality Instructional Materials for Remote Learning
Last Updated: December 11, 2020
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Implementation Science
Last Updated: January 27, 2020
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Implicit Bias
Last Updated: June 11, 2021
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Inclusive Instructional Practice
Last Updated: July 20, 2020
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Inclusive School and District Culture
Last Updated: January 27, 2020
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Multi-tiered System of Supports (MTSS)
Last Updated: January 27, 2020
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Ohio Improvement Process (OIP): A Foundation for Sustainable Improvement in Student and Adult Learning
Last Updated: January 22, 2020
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Last Updated: November 5, 2021
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Last Updated: December 15, 2021
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The Common Good as the Ongoing Conversation about Schooling
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The Problems of Equity in Resource Allocation
Last Updated: December 11, 2020
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The Research Evidence About Coaching
Last Updated: January 27, 2020
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The Spirit of Inquiry for Ohio's Collaborative Teams
Last Updated: January 27, 2020
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Theories of Change
Last Updated: February 7, 2020
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Theories of Learning
Last Updated: January 27, 2020
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Understanding by Design
Last Updated: January 27, 2020
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