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    Advancing Instruction and Leadership in the Nation’s Great City Schools: A Framework for Developing, Implementing, and Sustaining High-Quality Professional Development
     
    This guide aims to present district instructional leaders and staff with a core set of criteria for what high-quality professional development entails. It focuses on practical issues of district-level implementation in multiple teaching and learning environments and provides clear, concrete guidance for district leaders in selecting, designing, implementing, and sustaining high quality professional development.
    34 pages
    April 2021
     
     
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    Annual Report, 2020-2021
     
    The Annual Report features the activities and achievements of the Council of the Great City Schools during the 2020-21 program year.
    28 pages
    July 2021
     
     
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    Academic Key Performance Indicators, 2020 Report
     
    The refined set of Academic Key Performance Indicators are designed to measure the progress among the Council’s membership toward improving the academic outcomes for students.
    289 pages
    October 2020
     
     
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    Annual Report, 2019-2020
     
    The Annual Report features the activities and achievements of the Council of the Great City Schools during the 2019-20 program year.
    24 pages
    July 2020
     
     
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    Assessing Language Proficiency during Extended School Closures
     
    This document provides sample questionnaires across grade bands that are designed to provisionally identify students as English learners (ELs) during the COVID-19-related school closures, which impede the administration of face-to-face screening protocols.
    28 pages
    May 2020
     
     
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    Managing for Results in America's Great City Schools, 2020, Results from Fiscal Year 2018-19
     
    In 2002 the Council of the Great City Schools and its members set out to develop performance measures that could be used to improve business operations in urban public school districts.
    190 pages
    October 2020
     
     
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    Supporting English Learners in the COVID-19 Crisis
     
    This guide is the ninth in a series developed by the Council of the Great City Schools to help districts as they prepare to reopen schools—whatever that may look like—in the 2020-21 school year.
    58 pages
    August 2020
     
     
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    Academic Key Performance Indicators, 2019 Report
     
    The refined set of Academic Key Performance Indicators are designed to measure the progress among the Council’s membership toward improving the academic outcomes for students.
    282 pages
    October 2019