Best Practices

Materials on the best practices used in magnet schools to help you do your job better.

Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins

This book from the authors of Understanding by Design explores how to design and frame essential questions that prompt students to think deeply and create a more stimulating environment for learning.

Dr. Bonnie Davis

This practical workbook provides crucial strategies to assist educators in addressing the needs of diverse learners and closing the achievement gap.

UCLA Civil Rights Project

This policy brief refocuses our attention on the longstanding magnet sector. It is issued during a time of complex political and legal circumstances and seeks to understand how a variety of factors—including the Parents Involved ruling and the transition to a U.S. Department of Education led by the Obama Administration—have influenced federally-funded magnet programs.

Center for the Study of Social Policy

This toolkit is a quick and easy guide to help support and sustain parent engagement. It provides how to’s for implementing three powerful strategies that communities can use to maintain and grow parent engagement work that is already underway.

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