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Title: Moving Toward a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports: The Next Evolutionary Stage in School Improvement Policy and Practice (Policy & Practice Brief)
Description: School improvement policies, planning, and practices have not been effective in dealing with factors leading to and maintaining students? problems, especially in schools where large proportions of students are not doing well. With growing concern about reducing dropouts, closing the achievement gap, and ensuring all students have an equal opportunity for success at school, pressure is increasing for expanding the nature and scope of school improvement efforts.
The complexity of factors interfering with learning, development, and teaching underscore the need not only to coalesce current efforts but to transform them by ensuring school improvement plans encompass the development of a comprehensive system of learning supports as primary and essential in addressing the variety of factors that interfere with a school accomplishing its mission.
Evidence from institutional indicators and pioneering work on moving in new directions to enhance student and learning supports all herald a paradigm shift supporting development of a comprehensive and systemic approach. Access at: http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/briefs/paradigmshift.pdf 63kb; 12pp
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