We’ve posted a version of the Common Principles in Spanish for those school communities that would find this useful for communicating with Spanish-speaking families and community members. We’ve received a number of request for this resource, and we hope it’s useful. If your school or organization has versions of the Common Principles in other languages or formats, please share! We’d love to spread the word in as many ways as possible.
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The CES School Benchmarks are an assessment tool designed to address the challenge of helping schools translate the Coalition’s guiding tenets, the Common Principles, into practice by describing what their implementation “looks like” in a school. The benchmarks are divided into two categories: Classroom Practices and Organizational Practices. Classroom Practices are focused on instruction and address the question “What does a CES classroom look like?” by sharing how each practice is reflected in teacher work and student outcomes. Organizational Practices are those schoolwide practices that support and enable the Classroom Practices. Click here to explore the CES School Benchmarks.
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