Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning
The Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL) examines how college- and career-readiness standards are implemented, if they improve student learning, and what instructional tools measure and support their implementation.
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Publication An integrative approach to professional development to support college- and career- readiness standards.(2020-08-03) Pak, Katie; Desimone, Laura M.; Parsons, AriannaThough scholars agree that professional development (PD) is a key mechanism for implementing education policies that call for teacher change, and that PD generally needs to be content-focused, active, collaborative, coherent, and sustained, the application of this framework has yielded mixed results. In this qualitative study, we employed structured interviewing methods to explore how district leaders across five states are implementing college- and career- readiness (CCR) standards across the United States by creatively adapting and integrating the features of this PD framework in order to meet the demands of this mandated educational policy. We illustrate a revised model for how 70 district officials are conceptualizing these features of PD to support CCR standards-based learning.Publication How is policy affecting classroom instruction?(2017-05-11) Edgerton, Adam K.; Polikoff, Morgan; Desimone, Laura M.Five-plus years into the experiment with new “college- and career-ready standards” (of which Common Core is the most notable and most controversial example), we know little about teachers’ implementation and the ways policy can support that implementation. This paper uses new state-representative teacher survey data to characterize the degree of standards implementation across three states—Kentucky, Ohio, and Texas. We also investigate teachers’ perceptions of the extent to which the policy environment supports them to implement the standards. We find a great deal of variation in perceptions of policy, with Ohio teachers perceiving policy to be less supportive than Kentucky or Texas teachers. Teachers in all states are mostly implementing the content in new standards, but they are also teaching a good deal of content they should not—content that has been deemphasized in their grade-level standards. Perceptions of policy do not explain much of the variation in instruction, contrary to our theory. If greater attention is not paid to supporting teachers to implement the standards and reduce coverage of deemphasized content, we worry the standards will not have much effect.Publication Implementation of Massachusetts Curriculum Framework in English Language Arts and Math: Insights, Innovations, and Challenges in Six Districts(2019-05-01) C-SAIL, C-SAILThis brief presents findings from C-SAIL’s Implementation Study, which uses interview and survey data to explore how district administrators, principals, and teachers are understanding, experiencing, and implementing Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks in English language arts (ELA) and math. We examine how and what kinds of supports are provided to teachers of all students, including students with disabilities (SWDs) and English learners (ELs) who take the general state assessment.Publication Implementation of Ohio’s Learning Standards in English Language Arts and Math: Insights, Innovations, and Challenges in Six Districts(2018-06-01) C-SAIL, C-SAILThis brief presents findings from C-SAIL’s Implementation Study, which uses interview and survey data to explore how district administrators, principals, and teachers are understanding, experiencing, and implementing Ohio’s Learning Standards in English language arts (ELA) and math. We examine how and what kinds of supports are provided to teachers of all students, including students with disabilities (SWDs) and English learners (ELs) who take the general state assessment.Publication C-SAIL Year 3 Convening: Implementation Study Presentation(2018-04-27) Desimone, Laura M.Laura Desimone presents Year 2 findings from the Implementation Study at C-SAIL's second annual "A Conversation on College- and Career-Readiness Standards" in Washington, D.C. on April 27, 2018. This PowerPoint presentation corresponds to a presentation video available at c-sail.org/videos.Publication Tracing ‘21st Century Literacies’ in College and Career Ready State Standards: A Multi-State Scalar Analysis(2016-06-01) Stornaiuolo, Amy; Nichols, T. Philip; Plummer, EmilyThis presentation brings together resources of sociocultural literacy studies (Heath, 1983; Street, 1984; Barton, Hamilton, & Ivanic, 1999) and policy attribute analysis (Porter, Floden, Freeman, Schmidt, & Schwille, 1988) to examine how the meaning of “21st century skills/literacies” - as emphasized in recent college and career-readiness (CCR) standards - is framed and negotiated across state and district scales.Publication Implementation of Kentucky’s Learning Standards in English Language Arts and Math: Insights, Innovations, and Challenges in Six Districts(2018-04-01) C-SAIL, C-SAILThis brief presents findings from C-SAIL’s Implementation Study, which uses interview and survey data to explore how district administrators, principals, and teachers are understanding, experiencing, and implementing the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) in English language arts (ELA) and math. We examine how and what kinds of supports are provided to teachers of all students, including students with disabilities (SWDs) and English learners (ELs) who take the general state assessment.Publication C-SAIL Year 2 Convening: Students with Disabilities Presentation(2016-11-18) Fuchs, Doug; Fuchs, LynnDoug & Lynn Fuchs present Year 1 findings specific to students with disabilities at C-SAIL's first annual "A Conversation on College- and Career-Readiness Standards" in Washington, D.C. on November 18, 2016. This PowerPoint presentation corresponds to a presentation video available at c-sail.org/videos.Publication C-SAIL Year 2 Convening: English Learner Presentation(2016-11-18) Flores, NelsonNelson Flores presents Year 1 findings specific to English language learners at C-SAIL's first annual "A Conversation on College- and Career-Readiness Standards" in Washington, D.C. on November 18, 2016. This PowerPoint presentation corresponds to a presentation video available at c-sail.org/videos.Publication Teacher Implementation of College and Career-Ready Standards: Challenges & Resources(2017-01-01) Edgerton, Adam K.; Desimone, Laura M.Because teachers are the primary implementers of college- and career-ready standards, C-SAIL examined the challenges teachers face in using the standards in the classroom, the resources they find to be most helpful, and their attitudes toward the standards. This brief examines these issues using 2016–2017 survey data from Texas, Ohio, and Kentucky.