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 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 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 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 Year 1 State Report: California(2018-01-01) Edgerton, Adam K.; Desimone, Laura M.This report examines how the state of California approached college- and career-ready standards implementation during a time of transition. For the purposes of this report and in keeping with C-SAIL’s focus, the authors concentrate on implementation of California’s English language arts (ELA) and math standards.Publication Overview of C-SAIL’s Years 1 and 2 Implementation Study Findings(2018-04-01) C-SAIL, C-SAILThe brief presents themes from C-SAIL's Implementation Study (Years 1 and 2), organized by general, cross-state findings that incorporate both qualitative and quantitative data with regards to the policy attributes. We expand upon these themes by providing state- and district-specific examples of illuminating practices. We prioritize examples derived from Year 2 interview data.Publication Standards Implementation in Texas: Local Perspectives on Policy, Challenges, Resources, and Instruction(2017-03-01) Edgerton, Adam K.; Desimone, Laura M.; Yang, RuiThis report examines select data from a survey administered to districts, principals, and teachers in the state of Texas during the spring of 2016. The results presented focus on responses about the state’s standards-based reform policies as described by the policy attributes (Porter, Floden, Freeman, Schmidt, & Schwille, 1988), the theoretical framework that undergirds C-SAIL’s research. The framework suggests that five attributes are related to successful policy implementation, and that the stronger each attribute is, the better implementation will be.Publication C-SAIL Year 2 Convening: Measurement Study Presentation(2016-11-18) Polikoff, MorganMorgan Polikoff presents Year 1 progress on the Measurement Study 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 Year 1 State Report: Massachusetts(2017-02-01) Pak, Katie; Flores, Nelson; Nichols, T. Philip; Plummer, EmilyThis report examines how the state of Massachusetts approached college- and career-ready standards implementation during a time of transition, as it develops the Next-Generation Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or the “Next-Gen MCAS,” in 2015–2016. The transition will take place in 2016–2017, with full implementation of the next-generation assessment by the spring of 2017. For the purposes of this report and in keeping with C-SAIL’s focus, the authors concentrate on implementation of Massachusetts’ English language arts (ELA) and math standards.