Author: Sara Rutherford-Quach
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Bridging the Divide: Connecting Word Recognition and Language Comprehension in Early Literacy
This brief focuses on how reading foundational skills instruction in K–2 classrooms can more intentionally connect word recognition and language comprehension through two particular bridging processes – reading fluency and vocabulary development.
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Beyond the Surface: Leveraging High-Quality Instructional Materials for Robust Reading Comprehension
This brief examines the extent to which teachers in districts using comprehension HQIM implemented them in ways that supported students’ robust comprehension. Findings are based on a study of four districts receiving support through the Schusterman Family Philanthropies’ School System Partnerships to improve their students’ literacy outcomes.
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Comprehension Based Question Answering Using Bloom’s Taxonomy
Our experiments focus on zero-shot question answering, using the taxonomy to provide proximal context that helps the model answer questions by being relevant to those questions.
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Addressing the Bilingual Teacher Shortage
In this brief, the authors share strategies that can help mitigate bilingual teacher shortages and provide considerations for state and district leaders who are interested in addressing these shortages.
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Leveraging Flexible Teacher Certification Policies to Address the Bilingual Teacher Shortage
In this brief, the authors share strategies that state education agencies may use to provide more flexibility in teacher certification policies and thereby mitigate bilingual teacher shortages.
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Strengthening the Clinical Orientation of Teacher Preparation Programs
This paper describes five levers CSU campus-district partnerships used to make clinically oriented reforms to teacher preparation as part of the New Generation of Educators Initiative (NGEI)…
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Building Strong Partnerships to Improve Clinically Oriented Teacher Preparation
This paper describes four levers university teacher preparation programs (TPPs) and districts participating in the New Generation of Educators Initiative (NGEI) used to create strong partnerships…