Resources & Reports

The Great Schools Partnership is pleased to develop and share a variety of reports, resources, and toolkits for educators, policymakers, community members, and other education stakeholders. These resources are available in their entirety for free; we hope they will inform and support improvement efforts at your school or district.

Toolkits
Reports
Resources
TOOLKITS

Portrait of a Graduate

This toolkit contains an overview of the PoG process, concrete tools to use for each step in the process, and examples of how to use PoGs to drive teaching, learning, and community engagement.

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Elements of Effective Instruction​

The Elements of Effective Instruction framework outlines five intertwined elements of instructional practice that complement and enhance one another. 

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Proficiency-Based Learning

These tools are designed to help schools develop standards-based systems that will prepare all students for success in the colleges, careers, and communities of the 21st century.

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Educational Equity

These tools can help individuals or school communities understand and reflect on educational equity, while also evaluating their performance based on a variety of educational equity indicators.

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Community Engagement

The tools can help guide educators, families, students, and other members of a school community toward a more equitable system of community engagement.

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Professional Learning Groups

These resources can help your school community better understand the purpose of professional learning groups (PLGs) and to implement them in your specific context.

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Using Data to Improve Schools

Gathering, disaggregating, analyzing, and sharing data about and with your school community is a powerful way to identify inequities in your policies and practices.

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Restorative Practices Toolkit

This toolkit offers practical resources for implementing restorative practices to build belonging, community, and healing in educational settings.

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Multi-Tiered Systems of Support

A toolkit focusing on Multi-Tiered Systems of Support design, scheduling, teaching, and instructional practices to foster student engagement and success.

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School District Policy

A host of policy resources intended to help educators examine how their districts and schools are ensuring that the best equitable goals, guidance, and practices are secure, codified, and implemented.

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Grading & Reporting

These tools highlight central practices that schools can use to ensure grading and reporting systems help build a nurturing, equitable, creative, and dynamic culture of learning.

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Summative Assessment

These tools were built for educators to use as they design, critique, and refine summative assessments (as well as the scoring criteria) aligned to a proficiency-based learning system.

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Reports

Common Data Project Annual Report

An annual report providing transparent, comparable data on high school and college outcomes from across New England. Created in 2009 to track dropout rates, this report has grown to be a respected resource in the New England education community and beyond. 

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Creating Equitable Pathways to Ensure Civic Engagement and College and Career Readiness for All Students

A resource on helping students graduate with skills that transfer across disciplines, experiences that qualify them for well-paying careers, and the ability to examine today’s social and political environment.

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Diversifying the Educator Workforce Collaborative: Regional Landscape Snapshot

A 2022 DEW report on the current landscape of the region, identifying diversification efforts already underway in each New England state, documenting policy context, and providing a range of demographic data on the current educator workforce pipeline.

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Increasing the Racial, Ethnic, and Linguistic Diversity of the Educator Workforce

A racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse educator workforce is vital to closing the inequitable gaps that persist between students of color and their White peers. Get the strategies and resources you need to make change in your community.

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Resources

Global Best Practices

Global Best Practices is an internationally-benchmarked self-assessment tool for secondary learning; it’ is a practical, action-oriented resource with a step-by-step process.

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Newsletter Archive

Read all past issues of the Great School Partnership’s monthly newsletter, the GSP Dispatch. 

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