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LSS and
Comprehensive School Reform
The Laboratory for Student Success (LSS) is involved with Comprehensive
School Reform (CSR) on a number of levels. Among its
goals are to establish a research base on what it takes
to implement and sustain CSR programs in schools in
high-poverty rural and urban communities, and to disseminate
information to schools on what works in implementing CSR
and how to use knowledge-based information from research
and practical applications for making programming and
planning decisions.
Other goals include providing:
- technical assistance to states and schools on how to use
a data-based approach to plan, monitor, and evaluate CSR
implementation, based on the 11 design and
implementation criteria specified in the CSR
legislation.
- professional development support to states and
schools in increasing their capacity to implement
research-based practices and programs that work.
- technical assistance to states and schools in developing strategies
and implementation plans to ensure coordination and
alignment of CSR implementation to state/district reform
initiative.
- professional development to school staff on how to use
school data to make instructional decisions and monitor
student learning progress.
- support to enhance schools’ capacity to deliver
professional development programs targeted for
amplifying implementation expertise among the school
staff to achieve student success through CSR
implementation.
- technical support to develop networking capacity among
CSR implementation schools in the mid-Atlantic region.
- implementation support to schools in the nation that
have selected the LSS-developed research-based
comprehensive school reform model, the Community For
Learning (CFL) program.
CSR is a primary focus of several LSS
projects,
under the priority area Building and Sustaining Comprehensive School Reform. Additionally, the project State Testing and
Improved Teaching: Focus on Professional Development
is focused on how state testing policies interact with
CSR programs.
Community
For Learning (CFL)
is a CSR signature program of the Mid-Atlantic Regional
Educational Laboratory (LSS)
that draws from over two decades of research experience
on what makes schools work and what helps students
learn, even those students faced with some of the most
challenging situations. It is one of the 17 models
identified in the original Obey-Porter Comprehensive
School Reform Demonstration program legislation as being
research-based and comprehensive. CFL builds on the
strengths of a school community by tapping into its diversity
and redeploying its resources—especially human
resources—so that it can have the most positive impact
on children’s lives. The program includes schoolwide
restructuring to encourage shared responsibility, the
use of adaptable instructional strategies to meet
students’ diverse needs, and the development of plans to
integrate the school with other educational environments
such as the home and community.
Among the CSR-related documents produced by LSS are:
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