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McREL: Turning what works in teaching, leading, and learning into innovation and results
         A Policymaker’s Primer on Education Research: How To Understand, Evaluate & Use It [Online tool]
         Afterschool Training Toolkit
         Asking the Right Questions: A School Change Toolkit
         Balanced Leadership Profile®
         Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education
         Meeting the needs of emergent readers: Bert and Ernie to the rescue!
         PreK–12 Standards: Keys to Learning
         Success in Sight Web site
         Whelmers: McREL's Accessible Science Series
         100 Most Frequent Words in Books for Beginning Readers
         A Framework for Early Literacy Instruction: Aligning Standards to Developmental Accomplishments and Student Behaviors
         Classroom Instruction that Works Posters (Set of 50 small posters, 11"x17")
         Explorers Through Time: An Eighth-Grade History Unit
         Math Mountain: Online mathematics problems for grades 2–6
         Shapes, Shapes Everywhere! A second grade geometry unit
         Does Your District Need a Technology Audit? (Learning & Leading with Technology, April 2007)
         Imagine the Unimaginable
         Including Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Standards-Based Reform: A Report on McREL's Diversity Roundtable I
         Including At-Risk Students in Standards-Based Reform: A Report on McREL's Diversity Roundtable II
         Including Special Needs Students in Standards-Based Reform: A Report on McREL's Diversity Roundtable III
         Leading Schools: Distinguishing the Essential from the Important
         McREL Insights - Schools that "Beat the Odds"
         McREL Insights—From Knowledge to Wisdom: Using Case Methodology to Develop Effective Leaders
         Meeting the Needs of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and Special-Needs Students in Rural Communities: A Report on McREL's Diversity Roundtable IV
         Noteworthy Perspectives on Comprehensive School Reform
         Noteworthy Perspectives: Classroom Strategies for Helping At-Risk Students
         Noteworthy Perspectives: High Reliability Organizations in Education
         Noteworthy Perspectives: School Improvement
         Noteworthy Perspectives: Success in Sight
         Success in Sight: A Comprehensive Approach to School Improvement (report)
         Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom (Learning & Leading with Technology, March 2007)
         The Leadership We Need: Using research to strengthen the use of standards for administrator preparation and licensure programs
         Using Strategy Instruction to Help Struggling High Schoolers Understand What They Read
         Asking why when observing classrooms [Fall 2007 Changing Schools article]
         Changing Schools, Fall 2006: Time: Making the Most of a Precious Resource
         Changing Schools, Fall 2008: Everyday Innovation
         Changing Schools, Fall 2010: Ready, Set, Teach
         Changing Schools, Fall 2011: Re-Imagine High Performance
         Changing Schools, Spring 2007: Getting a new perspective on school improvement
         Changing Schools, Summer 2006: Preparing Students for a Technology-Rich, Global Marketplace
         Changing Schools, Summer 2008: Great Teachers, Great Teaching
         Changing Schools, Summer 2011: Supporting Success
         Changing Schools, Winter 2011: One Goal, Many Paths
         Creating Purposeful Communities [Changing Schools, Winter 2008]
         Everyday Innovation [Changing Schools, Fall 2008]
         Inquiry turns naturally curious students into scientists [Fall 2007 Changing Schools]
         Stopping the pendulum: How to turn change into progress [Changing Schools, Winter 2006]
         The Importance of Asking Why [Changing Schools, Fall 2007]
         Understanding resistance: Lessons from a river [Changing Schools, Fall 2007]
         Education Service Agencies: Initiating, Sustaining, and Advancing School Improvement
         Policy Brief - Creating Conditions for Leadership Effectiveness: The District's Role
         Policy Brief - Is a Laptop Initiative in Your Future?
         Policy Brief - Preparing for an Uncertain Future
         Policy Brief - Reducing Class Size: Choices and Consequences
         Policy Brief - Resource Allocation: Targeting Funding for Maximum Impact
         Policy Brief - School Finance: From Equity to Adequacy
         Policy Brief - School, Teacher, and Leadership Impacts on Student Achievement
         Policy Brief - Transforming Urban Education: Implications for State Policymakers
         Policy Brief—English Language Learners: A Growing Population
         Policy Brief: Amplified Policymaking
         Policy Brief: ESEA Flexibility: Department of Education Criteria and State Responses
         Policy Brief: Focusing on the Basics in Beat-the-Odds Schools
         Policy Brief: No Child Left Behind: Realizing the Vision
         Policy Leadership for the Future of Education: A Guide for Practitioners
         4th Annual Great Teachers for Our City Schools National Summit
         ABEC Annual Leadership Conference: From High Anxiety to High Reliability: Striking the Right Balance
         ABEC Annual Leadership Conference: Mindfulness: Aligned Structures and Processes
         Accountability for What Works, What Matters, and What’s Next: Accountability for High-Reliability Education
         AESA Resources for McREL's Educator Effectiveness Suite
         CCOSA presentation: District Leadership that Works
         EASTCONN ESA: Changing the Odds for U.S. Students
         From Managing Conflict to Leading Change
         IAPSS: School District Leadership that Works
         Lake County: From Beating the Odds to Changing Them
         Lake County: From Managing Conflict to Leading Change
         RIISA: From Boardrooms to Classrooms: Leadership for High(er) Reliability Education
         Rutgers Institute for Improving Student Achievement (RIISA) Summer Leadership Conference
         Seton Hall University: Leadership for High-Reliability Organizations
         The Association of School Business Officials—School Business Leadership that Works: Striking the Right Balance
         Wichita Falls presentation: Leadership for High(er) Reliability Education
         21st Century Skills: What do We Expect of Students?
         A New Era of School Reform: Going Where the Research Takes Us
         Achievement Gap Patterns of Grade 8 American Indian and Alaska Native Students in Reading and Math
         American Indian Education: The Role of Tribal Education Departments
         Are Teachers in the Central Region Being Prepared to Teach Linguistically Diverse Students?
         Assessment: A McREL Report Prepared for Stupski Foundation's Learning System
         Balanced Leadership®: What 30 Years of Research Tells Us about the Effect of Leadership on Student Achievement
         Building Better Instruction: How Technology Supports Nine Research-Proven Instructional Strategies
         Chopsticks and Counting Chips: Do Play and Foundational Skills Need to Compete for the Teacher's Attention in an Early Childhood Classroom?
         Classroom Instruction that Works Second Edition Research Report
         College Readiness: A McREL Report Prepared for Stupski Foundation's Learning System
         Comprehensive Accountability Systems: A Framework for Evaluation (revised edition)
         Curriculum: A McREL Report Prepared for Stupski Foundation's Learning System
         Developing Self-Regulation in Kindergarten: Can We Keep All the Crickets in the Basket?
         Effective Standards-Based Practices for Native American Students: A Review of Research Literature
         Examining American Indian Perspectives in the Central Region on Parent Involvement in Children's Education
         Final Report: High-Needs Schools - What Does it take to beat the odds?
         Guiding Rural Schools and Districts: A Research Agenda
         Helping At-Risk Students Meet Standards: A Synthesis of Evidence-Based Classroom Practices
         High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the Central Region [Research in Brief]
         High School Standards and Expectations for College and the High-Skills Workplace [Research in Brief]
         How are Educators Using Data? A Comparative Analysis of Superintendent, Principal, and Teachers' Perceptions of Accountability Systems
         How Did States in the Central Region Evaluate Supplemental Educational Services Providers in 2007?
         Identifying Differences Between Two Groups of High-Needs High Schools
         Leadership: A McREL Report Prepared for Stupski Foundation's Learning System
         Make-believe play versus academic skills: a Vygotskian approach to today's dilemma of early childhood education
         McREL Reports for Stupski Foundation's Learning System
         Missed Opportunities: Supplemental Services in the Central Region States [Research in Brief]
         National Geographic Society Alliance Study: Eighth-Grade Geography
         Noteworthy Perspectives: Out-of-School Time Programs for At-Risk Students
         Our Kids: A McREL Report Prepared for Stupski Foundation's Learning System
         Pedagogy: A McREL Report Prepared for Stupski Foundation's Learning System
         Scaffolded Writing: A Successful Strategy for Promoting Children's Writing in Kindergarten
         Scaffolding Early Literacy Through Play
         Scaffolding Emergent Writing in the Zone of Proximal Development
         School District Leadership that Works®: The Effect of Superintendent Leadership on Student Achievement
         School Practices for Helping Children Meet Language Arts Standards: Preliminary Findings from McREL's Study of High-Performing, High-Needs Schools
         Self-regulation: A Foundation for Early Learning
         Student Supports: A McREL Report Prepared for Stupski Foundation's Learning System
         Systems Diagnostics: A McREL Report Prepared for Stupski Foundation's Learning System
         Teacher Survey of Standards-Based Instruction: Addressing Time
         The Effectiveness of Out-Of-School-Time Strategies in Assisting Low-Achieving Students in Reading and Mathematics: A Research Synthesis
         The McREL Rural Technology Initiative: Research and Evaluation Study
         The Tools of the Mind Project: A Case Study of Implementing the Vygotskian Approach in American Early Childhood and Primary Classrooms
         Understanding How Principals Use Data in a New Environment of Accountability
         Understanding How Superintendents Use Data in a New Environment of Accountability
         Understanding No Child Left Behind
         McREL's Principal Evaluation System
         McREL's Teacher Evaluation System
         Power Walkthrough® Classroom Observation Software
         A Distillation of Subject-Matter Content for the Subject Areas of Geography and History
         A Distillation of Subject-Matter Content for the Subject Areas of Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science
         A Handbook for Classroom Instruction that Works
         A Report Documenting the Process for Developing an Integrated Standards-Based Instructional Unit
         A Teacher's Tool for Reflective Practice: Racial and Cultural Differences in American Indian Students' Classrooms
         An Education Research Primer: How to Understand, Evaluate, and Use It
         Analysis and Identification of Basic Words in Grades K-6
         Asking the Right Questions: A Leader's Guide to Systems Thinking About School Improvement
         Classroom Instruction that Works with English Language Learners
         Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement
         Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement (2nd Ed.)
         Connecting Ideas: A Strategy for Extending the Curriculum
         Designing a Sustainable Standards-Based Assessment System
         Designing Effective Science Instruction: What Works in Science Classrooms
         District Leadership That Works: Striking the Right Balance
         EDThoughts: What We Know About Science Teaching and Learning
         English Language Learner Resource Guide: A Guide for Rural Districts With A Low Incidence Of ELLs
         Exemplary English Language Arts Standards Among the Seven States in the Central Region
         Exemplary Geography Benchmarks Among the Seven States in the Central Region
         Exemplary History Benchmarks Among the Seven States in the Central Region
         Exemplary Mathematics Standards Among the Seven States in the Central Region
         Exemplary Science Benchmarks Among the Seven States in the Central Region
         Finding the Time to Learn: A Guide
         For the Love of Words: Vocabulary Instruction that Works
         Leadership Folio Series: Guiding Comprehensive School Reform
         Leadership Folio Series: Sustaining School Improvement
         Noteworthy Perspectives: Keeping the Focus on Learning
         Principles of High-Quality Afterschool Mathematics Enrichment
         Remove Limits to Learning with Systematic Vocabulary Instruction
         Scaffolding Literacy Development in the Kindergarten Classroom
         Scaffolding Literacy Development in the Preschool Classroom
         School Leadership That Works: From Research to Results
         School Practices Survey: User Guide for Practitioners
         Sequenced Benchmarks for Geography and History
         Sequenced Benchmarks for K–12 Language Arts
         Sequenced Benchmarks for K–8 Science
         Sequenced Benchmarks for K-12 Mathematics
         Simply Better: Doing What Matters Most to Change the Odds for Student Success
         Structuring Out-of-School Time to Improve Academic Achievement (What Works Clearinghouse Practice Guide)
         Sustaining Coherent Reform: An Evaluation Guide for Districts and Schools
         Teaching Writing in the Content Areas
         The Balanced Leadership Framework®: Connecting Vision with Action
         The Future of Schooling: Educating America in 2014
         The Future of Schooling: Educating America in 2020
         Transforming Classroom Grading
         Understanding Common Core State Standards
         Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works
         Using Writing in Mathematics to Deepen Student Learning
         What We Know About Mathematics Teaching and Learning (3rd. Ed.)
         What Works in Classroom Instruction
         Classroom Instruction That Works with English Language Learners Facilitator's Guide
         Classroom Instruction That Works with English Language Learners Participant’s Workbook
         Classroom Instruction that Works: Participants' and Facilitators' Manuals
         Principles in Action: Stories of Award-Winning Professional Development (DVD)
         Teaching Reading in Mathematics, 2nd Edition (A Supplement to Teaching Reading in the Content Areas)
         Teaching Reading in Science (A Supplement to Teaching Reading in the Content Areas)
         Teaching Reading in Social Studies (A Supplement to Teaching Reading in the Content Areas Teacher's Manual)
         Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who?