ESSA Key Resources: Selecting the Right Evidence-Based Practices
Evidence-based practices (EBPs) play an important role in ESSA. AIR experts have compiled a list of key resources to help education leaders choose the right evidence-based practice or program for your district or school and bring positive outcomes for their students. Read our action guide about evidence-based practices and ESSA >>
Key Resources
Data Analysis and Practices to Prioritize Improvement Areas
- Root-cause analysis tool from the Regional Education Laboratory (REL) Midwest (under the Training, Coaching, and Technical Supports Projects header)
- Inventory of Current Practice for state and local education agencies, from “Evidence-Based Improvement: A Guide for States to Strengthen Their Frameworks and Supports Aligned to the Evidence Requirements of ESSA”
- Root Cause Analysis: How adaptive leaders use root cause analysis to collaboratively solve student achievement needs” (webinar hosted by REL Mid-Atlantic)
Key Resources to Flag EBPs That Meet Evidence Requirements
- Online clearinghouses
- What Works Clearinghouse (WWC)
- Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development Programs
- Campbell Collaboration
- National Institute of Justice Crime Solutions
- ArtsEdSearch
- RAND Social and Emotional Learning Evidence Review
- The Community Guide
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
- Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
- “Aligning Evidence-Based Clearinghouses with the ESSA Tiers of Evidence” (crosswalk from REL Midwest)
- “How Administrators Can Communicate the Need for Evidence-Based Decision Making” (webinar from WWC)
- “Intervention Evidence Review” (tool included in “Evidence-Based Improvement: A Guide for States to Strengthen Their Frameworks and Supports Aligned to the Evidence Requirements of ESSA”)
- “Academic Intervention Tools Chart” (from the National Center on Intensive Intervention)
Evidence-Based Practices Support Available from AIR
Email ESSASolutions@air.org to learn more about these services.
Training
- AIR student performance data co-interpretationSM training
- Root-cause analysis training
- Training on evidence tiers and selection of practices based on local criteria
- Training in evaluation of practices for local fit, capacity, and other local criteria
Services
- Gap analysis of current school improvement practices
- Establishing state and local procedures for vetting clearinghouses and evidence tier review
- Establishing protocols for consideration and review of original research
- Literature review for potential practices
- Statistics, Website, and Training project for WWC
- Evaluation of potential practices against research-based criteria and/or local criteria
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