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High School Redesign: Student Advisory Evaluation 2007-2008
This report summarizes evaluation results from AISD's 2007-2008 high school Student Advisory/Family Advocacy Program.
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Middle School Level Report Summary of Research
The AISD level reports highlight analyses results and strategies that address the interactions among factors influencing student performance. The 2008-2009 MS level report presents results critical to student achievement at the middle school level.
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State Compensatory Education, 2008-2009
State Compensatory Education (SCE) is a supplemental program designed to eliminate disparities in (a) student performance on assessment instruments administered under chapter 39 of the Texas Education Code (1995, amended 2007), and (b) the rates of high school completion between students who are at risk of dropping out of school, as defined by Texas Education Code 29.081 (1995, amended 2007), and all other students. This report examines the results for the State Compensatory Education program for at-risk students in AISD for the 2008-2009 school year.
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Office of Redesign: Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL), 2008-2009
Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) aimed to improve teacher practice and improve student outcomes at Lanier and International High Schools. Overall, QTEL was moderately effective based on the myriad of mixed program results.
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Reflections on QTEL Professional Development: AISD Building The Base, August 2009
QTEL is a teacher professional development program designed to improve instruction for English language learners and close academic gaps. This report summarizes feedback from teachers regarding a QTEL professional development event.
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Question: What are the professional development needs of Austin Independent School District's (AISD) teachers and campus administrators?
A survey given to teachers and campus administrators in spring 2009 showed several commonly requested training topics.
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AISD Prekindergarten Expansion Grant Evaluation Report, 2008-2009 Promoting School Readiness
AISD provided full-day pre-K to 5,196 4-year-olds in 2008–09 at 66 schools. Seventy percent or more of students made measureable gains on a test of receptive vocabulary, and average gains showed growth about two times greater than that expected for 4-year-olds after a 7-month period.
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Summer School Evaluation Summary Report 2009
AISD served more than 13,000 students in summer programs, providing opportunities for accelerated learning, maintenance of academic skills between school years, course credit recovery, state achievement tests, or school-level transition activities. Read the full report for more details.
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Program Summary and Second-Year Outcomes For The ACCESS Initiative, 2008-2009
The Austin Community Collaboration to Enhance Student Success (ACCESS) is a community collaboration between the Austin Independent School District (AISD) and public and nonprofit agencies. By implementing a number of innovative prevention and treatment programs to address the emotional, behavioral, and social needs of students, the ACCESS initiative seeks to promote and encourage safe and positive learning environments. Additionally, ACCESS aims to enhance the way social services are delivered on campuses by creating a youth mapping program with geographic information to locate, target, and…
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Math Improvement Initiative, Year 2 Implementation: 2008-2009
The partnership between AISD and the Charles A. Dana Center was designed to improve the teaching and learning of math and showed promise in its second year of implementation. This report provides a detailed summary of results.