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• Frameworks for Systemic Transformation of Student and Learning Supports

• “Not Another Team!” School Improvement Infrastructure Viewed through the Lens of Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching

• Key Leadership Infrastructure Mechanisms for Enhancing Student & Learning Supports

• Reworking Infrastructure

• Senate's ESEA Reauthorization Proposal & Equity of Opportunity: Any Concerns?
• Mental Health in Schools: An Opportunity to Embed the Field into School Improvement Policy and Practice
• School Improvement: A Functional View of Enabling Equity of Opportunity
• Grade Retention: What's the Prevailing Policy and What Needs to be Done?
• School Attendance Problems: Are Current Policies & Practices Going in the Right Direction?
• Creating Caring Schools
• School Improvement: Where's Student Support?
• Sustainability & Scale-up: It's About Systemic Change

• Adelman, H. S. & Taylor, L. (2011). Expanding school improvement policy to better address barriers to learning and integrate public health concerns. Policy Futures in Education, 9(3).
• Adelman, H. S. & Taylor, L.(2010) Creating Successful School Systems Requires Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching. The F. M. Duffy Reports. July 2010, 15(3).
• Adelman, H.S. & Taylor, L. (2007). Systemic Change for School Improvement. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation
• Adelman, H.S. & Taylor, L. (in press). Enhancing Schools as Caring Environment, In R. Talley (Ed) Building Community Caregiving Capacity. Oxford University Press
• Adelman, H.S. & Taylor, L. (2008). School-wide Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching. In B. Doll & J. Cummings (Eds.) Population-based Services of School Psychologists. National Association of School Psychologists
• Adelman, H.S. & Taylor, L. (2008). School Improvement: A Systemic View of What's Missing and What to Do About It. In B. Despres (Ed.) Systems Thinkers in Action: A Field Guide for Effective Change Leadership in Education. Towman & Littelfield
• Adelman, H.S. & Taylor, L. (2006). Reorganizing student supports to enhance equity. In E. Lopez, G. Esquivel, & S. Nahari (Eds.), Multicultural Hanbook of School Psychology. Lawrence Erlbaum: Mahwah, NJ
• Adelman, H.S. & Taylor, L. (2002). So you want higher achievement scores? Its time to rethink learning supports. The State Education Standard, (Autumn 2002) National Association of State Boards of Education, Alexandria, VA.
• Adelman, H.S., & Taylor, L. (1999). Address Barriers to Student Learning: Systematic Changes at all Levels. Intro to Thematic Section for Reading & Writing Quarterly, 15(4), 251-254.
• Taylor, L. & Adelman, H.S. (1999). Personalizing Classroom Instruction to Account for Motivational and Developmental Differences. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 15(4), 255-276.
• Adelman, H.S., Taylor, L. & Schneider, M.V. (1999). A School-wide Component to Address Barriers to Learning. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 15(4), 277-302.
• Taylor, L, Nelson, P. & Adelman, H.S. (1999). Scaling-Up Reforms Across a School District. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 15(4), 303-326.
• Adelman, H.S. & Taylor, L. (1997). Toward a scale-up model for replicating new approaches to schooling. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 8(2), 197-230

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