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Implementing the Comprehensive Aligned Instructional System Briefing
Paper
This Briefing Paper describes why state and school district implementation of the comprehensive aligned instructional system is essential to improve teaching and learning and as a requirement for student achievement progress. It discusses the integrated elements that comprise an aligned system and their functionality. It introduces the Aligned·By·Design System as a transformational aligned instructional model and fully integrated enterprise management system. The Briefing Paper includes details and diagrams in an easy-to-print and email format.
The
Aligned·By·Design Fact Sheet
This new Executive Overview describes the
Aligned·By·Design System and how
it improves student achievement while reducing operating costs by supporting
education processes effectively and efficiently.
Research Brief on the
Common Core State Standards
Initiative Implementation Questions
This Research Brief reviews the Initiative, its strategy, proposed processes and
objectives. It examines key requirement questions, including ones related to the
significant downstream implementation impacts on state and local education
agencies, teachers and students. The findings indicate that the Initiative’s
current implementation approach will result in serious, but avoidable,
implementation cost, efficiency and effectiveness issues. The Brief provides an
important set of recommendations for consideration by participating states and
their school districts.
This Briefing Paper describes the optimized and integrated data system features
of the
Aligned·By·Design System. Using data to monitor and manage
educational practices is critical to improvement and
Aligned·By·Design takes it to new levels with real-time,
detailed information collected automatically by the process automation system
and streamed into both a cross-sectional and longitudinal data systems for
optimized benefit. The Briefing Paper includes details and diagrams in an
easy-to-print and email format.