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SEDL Publications Updated on a Regular Basis

• SEDLETTER: SEDL's magazine, covers issues of teaching, learning, and policy as they affect K-12 education in the South and Southwest.
  http://www.sedl.org/pubs/sedletter/

• SEDL Newsletters: SEDL's collection of newsletters and occasional papers offers educators information on mathematics and science education reform, reading, languages other than English, technology to support learning approaches, and education policy issues.
  http://www.sedl.org/pubs/newsletters.html

Web Links Categorized by Subject Topics: Links to Resources for Educators

• Improving School Performance: SEDL is involved in fostering systemic change in numerous ways. This section provides links and resources to SEDL products and services for improving school performance.
  http://www.sedl.org/work/school.html
  Improving School Performance Subtopics:

• Eisenhower Southwest Consortium for the Improvement of Mathematics and Science Teaching (SCIMAST): SCIMAST works to support systemic change by encouraging regional, state, and local initiatives
• South Central RTEC: RTEC uses SEDL’s research-based materials to assist teachers in integrating technology into the curriculum.
• Languages Other Than English Center for Educator Development (LOTE CED): LOTE CED helps PreK-12 educators enhance the proficiency of Texas foreign language students.
• Past Work: SEDL’s historical archives provide access to previous studies aimed at improving school performance.
• Related Resources: Access to resources related to improving school performance is available on the right side of the page.

• Involving Family and Community in Student Learning: SEDL helps parents, teachers, administrators, policymakers, business people, and students work together to support learning. This section of the SEDL site provides links to the following resources:
  http://www.sedl.org/work/family.html
  Involving Family and Community in Student Learning Subtopics:

• SEDL's National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools provides practitioners across the country with research- and practice-based resources about how families and communities can work with schools to support student achievement, especially in reading and mathematics.
• The Connection Collection: School, Family, Community Publications—A database of annotations for over 140 articles, monographs, and other literature related to school, family, and community involvement in education.
• Emerging Issues in School, Family, & Community Connections—The first in a series of research syntheses that will examine key issues in the field of family and community connections with schools.
• Benefits2—Issue papers focusing on connecting rural schools and their communities.
• What's Going on in My Child's School: A Parent's Guide to Good Schools—A booklet for parents who want to understand how and why schools are changing their approach.
• A Resource Guide for Planning and Operating After-School Programs—A description of resources to support community-based after-school programs for school-aged children.
• Building Support for Better Schools: Seven Steps to Engaging Hard-to-Reach Communities—A practical guide for those trying to involve hard-to-reach communities.
• Building Home, School, and Community Partnerships—A basic resource defining the role of each partner.

• Literacy and Language: SEDL helps schools and districts improve reading instruction in a cost-effective way by developing research-based tools and using them in SEDL’s intensive support, assistance, and professional development programs.
  http://www.sedl.org/work/literacy.html
  Literacy and Language Resources Include:

• The Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read: A Framework—A resource that provides valuable connections between state mandates regarding reading competence and research on the cognitive elements developing within the young reader.
• Languages Other Than English Center for Educator Development (LOTE CED), SEDL assists pre K–12 educators in enhancing the proficiency of Texas students in languages other than English.
• SEDL’s Reading Resources—A list of reading resources designed to help reading teachers develop a richer understanding of current reading research and assessment and use this understanding to inform their instructional practice.
• Reading Assessment Database for Grades K–2—A database that provides valuable information about all of the options available to teachers and administrators who are seeking reliable reading assessment tools for children in grades Pre-K to 3.
• Building Reading Proficiency at the Secondary School Level: A Guide to Resources— this publication reviews the scholarly literature on building reading proficiency at the secondary level and its implications for classroom instruction.
• Reading Success Network—A professional development initiative to train experienced reading teachers to become reading coaches for K–3 classroom teachers.

• Mathematics and Science: This section of the SEDL web site provides math and science resources based on the belief that with systemic change incorporating time, support, and active involvement from all levels of the educational system, math and science teaching can improve.
  http://www.sedl.org/work/math.html
  Mathematics and Science Resources:

• Eisenhower Southwest Consortium for the Improvement of Mathematics and Science Teaching (SCIMAST) provides tested, research-based resources to address systemic improvement in math and science education.
• Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin, contributes research-based resources and intensive assistance to attack the underlying systemic problems that state departments of education and low-performing schools and districts face in math instruction.
• Classroom Compass—A collection of ideas, activities, and resources to improve instruction in science and mathematics.
• SCIMAST/ENC Access Centers—These Centers are located at school district offices, universities, museums, or professional development centers and provide materials that support math and science instruction, training on those materials, and network sessions for teachers to share their experiences.
• Math and Science Mentoring Archives—A service that enables teachers of any level to pose questions and receive mentoring from regional mathematics and science teachers recognized as presidential awardees.
• Directory of Science-Rich Resources—A listing of science resource organizations in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, as well as national organizations that offer resources to science students and teachers.
• NSF Southwest Regional Conference— Strengthening Mathematics and Science Education for All— brought together recipients of the National Science Foundation's systemic initiative awards in the southwestern region.

• Policy Research: SEDL provides state and local policymakers and their staff members with data, research-based information, and opportunities for interaction around education-related issues that can inform all phases of policy development.
  http://www.sedl.org/work/policy.html
  SEDL’s policy research sections provides information in the following areas.

• Regional Educational Laborartory: Policy Research Center With their partner, the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin, SEDL's REL staff are addressing current educational policy needs during this contract through three policy research studies, five policy briefs, and annual policy forums.
• SouthCentral RTEC offers policymakers the latest information on technology policies and concerns through publications.
• National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research, which gives policymakers access to disability research data and information relevant to policy decision-making.
• Calling the Role: Study Circles for Better Schools: This report discusses the efficiency of study circles in increasing interaction between the public and state decision makers.
• Deliberate Dialogue and Public Policy: SEDL's Policy Planning Service (SPPS) uses "deliberative dialogue" to refer to the small-group practice of exploring a particular social issue or problem by calling on the experiences, perspectives, and knowledge of group members in order to gain a shared understanding of the issue.
• "Mentoring Beginning Teachers: Lessons from the Experience in Texas—A policy research report that examines how the state of Texas, since 1989, has experimented with mentoring for beginning teachers as a strategy to encourage and facilitate the retention of teachers through their first years in the profession.
• Resource Allocation Practices and Student Achievement: A report that summarizes research on resource allocation and student performance conducted in 21 school districts across Texas.
• Insights ... on education policy, practice, and research—Policy briefings that address emerging issues of importance to policymakers and policy analysts in SEDL's five-state region, such as alternative education, assessment, choice, charter schools, and year-round education.

• Putting Disability Research into Practice: SEDL’s Disability Research section provides resources supporting the belief that disability research outcomes offer great utility to people with disabilities and their families, along with practitioners engaged in disability service delivery, scientists and researchers, policymakers, journalists, health care providers, employers, and many others.
  http://www.sedl.org/work/disability.html

• National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research (NCDDR). Funded in 1995 as a four-year pilot project, the NCDDR was awarded a new five-year grant in 1999 to continue helping NIDRR-funded researchers disseminate their outcomes and innovations in ways their audiences can use them.
• Brochures and Posters— Brochures and posters that address NCDDR services and resources as well as NIDRR grantee areas of research and related activity.
• Literature Reviews and Related Materials— NCDDR-produced reviews of scholarly literature that feature a variety of complex issues related to dissemination and utilization.
• NCDDR Registry of Online Resources— The Registry facilitates access to information that has been produced through NIDRR grant activity and is currently available in an electronic online format. Resources included in the Registry reflect only a portion of the disability research outcomes that have been produced by any NIDRR grantee.
• Research Exchange Newsletter— Issues of the NCDDR publication, The Research Exchange, span several years and a wide variety of subjects related to dissemination and utilization.
• Special Reports— Publications that focus on wide-ranging topics including: effective dissemination planning, accessible material development, and multiculturalism.
• Success Stories— These highlight a variety of "successes" realized by NIDRR-funded grantees in their dissemination and utilization efforts.
• Survey Reports— These report the results of various survey findings.

• Teaching and Learning with Technology: SEDL staff conduct research to examine how student-centered learning environments can be supported by technology.
  http://www.sedl.org/work/technology.html
  Teaching and Learning with Technology Resources:

• South Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium (RTEC) seeks to support educational systems that use technology to foster student success in achieving state content standards, particularly in schools serving high populations of poor students.
• Strategies for Understanding and Networking Resources, Actions, and e-Yearbooks (SUNRAY) helps higher education faculty prepare future educators to meet 21st Century School goals by using technology effectively for teaching and learning.
• Aurora Project: SEDL has been a partner in the Aurora Project, an Oklahoma initiative that provides tools teachers use to communicate, exchange information, and work with other districts.
• Active Learning with Technology portfolio—A set of materials and activities designed for educators who provide professional development to K–12 teachers.
• SCIMAST/ENC Access Centers—These Centers are located at school district offices, universities, museums, or professional development centers and provide materials that support math and science instruction, training on those materials, and network sessions for teachers to share their experiences.
• TALON—A searchable database of K–12 Web resources.
• Connecting Student Learning & Technology and Constructing Knowledge with Technology—Two SEDL publications including an introduction to constructivism, a section on computers and constructivism, a list of characteristics of constructivist learning environments, and constructivism’s implications for K–12 classrooms.
• Engaged Discoverers: Kids Constructing Knowledge with Technology and Classrooms Under Construction: Integrating Student Centered Learning with Technology—These video depicts K-12 classrooms in which a variety of technologies support student-centered approaches in the classroom.