Welcome to West Wind's Library page, which houses a collection of papers, PowerPoint presentations, and articles produced by West Wind. Click on the titles to access the documents.

LGBTQ Literature: Selected Works on Intersectionality
In response to the American Education Research Association (AERA) Call for Ideas: Scholarly Knowledge on LGBTQ Issues, West Wind recommended the additions of these selected works to the AERA preliminary literature review.

State Policy Implications of the Model Core Teaching Standards
By Deanna Hill, Circe Stumbo, Kathleen Paliokas, Deb Hansen, and Peter McWalters. This draft discussion document was written on behalf of CCSSO's Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) as a companion document to Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource for State Dialogue. Disseminated at CCSSO's 2010 Summer Institute, it was written to assist the organization's influential network of chief state school officers and the education community as they make decisions about standards adoption and implementation.

Transforming Teaching and Leading: A Vision for a High Quality Educator Development System
By Deanna Hill, Judy Jeffrey, Peter McWalters, Kathleen Paliokas, Alice Seagren, and Circe Stumbo. This white paper outlines the agenda of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to identify critical design elements of a high quality educator development system and to provide states with a tool to identify work to be done in each element. It articulates a vision for teaching and leading as part of a broader vision for transforming the public education system toward excellence and equity.

Building Capacity for Dual Credit in Southwest Ohio: The Promise of Regional Practices
Deanna Hill conducted interviews with participants in dual credit symposia and wrote up this report describing her findings. The symposia brough together university faculty with high school teachers who teach mathematics courses that students receive university credit for completing.

Summary of The Knowledge Garage: Redesigning Education R&D to Transform Learning
Prepared for Unleashing Knowledge and Innovation for the Next Generation of Learning, a national invitational summit convened by Knowledge Alliance/Center for Knowledge Use, Stupski Foundation, and West Wind Education Policy Inc.,
August 10–12, 2009, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico. The full white paper can be downloaded here.

Unpacking the Difficulty of Reframing Racial Achievement Gaps So Data No Longer Reinforce Racial Stereotypes
Deanna Hill, Senior Policy Analyst and Circe Stumbo presented these findings of theirs at the National Conference on Student Assessment in Los Angeles, California, June 23, 2009.

Systemic Equity Leadership
Circe Stumbo presented this talk at the Ross Trust School Counselor Symposium in Johnston, Iowa, June 15, 2009.

Closing All the Gaps: How that Phrase is Problematic
Circe Stumbo and David Davidson, Project Director for West Wind's Racial Equity Consortium, presented this June 10, 2009, at the Southern Minority Leadership Conference in Tupelo, Mississippi.

The Social Construction of "Other": A Critical Analysis of Language and Imagery in Education Policy
This was presented by Circe Stumbo, President, West Wind; Anedra Million, Assistant Principal of Amanda Elementary School in Middletown, Ohio; and Bonnie McIntosh, COO, West Wind, at Harvard Graduate School of Education's Alumni of Color Conference on March 7, 2009.

The Summit for Courageous Conversation Presentations
As an organizational partner for The Summit for Courageous Conversation, which took place from September 28 through October 1, 2008, West Wind participated in the program design and contributed four powerful presentations in support of that design. The following is a list of PDFs of these presentations' slideshows.

"How the Phrase 'Achievement Gap' Reinforces Systemic Racism" by Senior Policy Analyst Deanna Hill

"Is NCLB a Civil Rights Act?" by President Circe Stumbo & Senior Policy Analyst Deanna Hill

"Facing Race Together: Sharing the Power of Regional Collaboration" by Senior Policy Analyst Deanna Hill, and presented with Middletown Superintendent Steve Price & Pacific Educational Group President Glenn Singleton

"Distinguishing Between Technical and Adaptive Change" by President Circe Stumbo & Project Director David Davidson

"Augmenting the Use of Data: Uprooting Dominant Stories About 'Racial Achievement Gaps'"

West Wind Education Policy President Circe Stumbo and Policy Analyst Deanna Hill--along with Stephen Price, superintendent of Middletown City Schools in Ohio, and Kee Edwards, principal of Rosa Parks Elementary School in Middletown--presented this PowerPoint at the National Conference of Student Assessment on June 17, 2008.

"States' Impact on Federal Education Policy Designed to Improve the Achievement of Disadvantaged Students"

Circe Stumbo and Deanna Hill presented this PowerPoint at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, held on March 24, 2008.

"Problematizing the 'Problem' of Racial Achievement Gaps"

In collaboration with Adrian Allison--executive director of urban policy, Ohio Department of Education--and Stephen Price, Circe Stumbo and Deanna Hill presented this PowerPoint at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Alumni of Color Conference on February 23, 2008.

"Facing Race: Closing Subgroup 'Achievement Gaps' District- and Region-Wide"

Circe Stumbo--in collaboration with Stephen Price and assistant dean of the School of Education and Allied Professions, Raymond Terrell--presented this PowerPoint at the American Association of School Administrators' National Conference on Education, which took place February 14-17, 2008.

"Leadership Challenges to Achieving Education Goals"

Presented for the National Education Association's 2007 Fall conference, Circe Stumbo gave this presentation with the assistance of Policy Analysts Deanna Hill and Ernestine Key. The symposium's theme was "What Challenges Must Education Goals Address and Have We Been Successful in Meeting Them?"

More Than Social Networking

A sidebar that appeared in the April 2007 issue of The School Administrator, co-authored by West Wind's Circe Stumbo and Ohio's superintendent of public instruction Susan Tave Zelman.

Report of the Focus Groups to Discuss Bold and Innovative Ideas

A report on seven focus groups on the topic of Pay for Performance in the state of Iowa, conducted in the Fall of 2006. Prepared for the Institute for Tomorrow's Workforce.

Perspectives on Georgia's High Schools

A report on the Regional Focus Groups on High School Redesign and the Work of the High School Redesign Advisory Panel. Prepared for the Georgia Department of Education School Improvement Division.

High School Leadership: Preliminary Report

A report introducing New Hampshire Vision for High Schools and representing stakeholder workshops, forums, and focus groups conducted throughout 2004 and 2005. Prepared for the State of New Hampshire Department of Education.

Arizona High School Renewal and Improvement Initiative: A Report of the Regional Focus Groups on High School Renewal

A needs assessment for the context of improving Arizona’s high schools, based on Regional Focus Groups on High School Renewal and prepared for the Arizona Department of Education and the Arizona High School Renewal and Improvement Initiative State Team.

Briefing Paper Series on Mathematical Literacy
A series of briefing papers that analyzes the imperatives and opportunities in critical areas of mathematics education. Prepared for the Council of Chief State School Officers and Texas Instruments, Incorporated.

Why Isn’t the Mathematics We Learned Good Enough for Today’s Students? The Imperative of Mathematics Literacy

Standards-Based Foundations for Mathematics Education: Standards, Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment in Mathematics

Preparing the Teachers Our Students Need: Teacher Preparation and Professional Development

Getting and Keeping the Teachers We Need in the Places We Need Them: Teacher Recruitment, Assignment, and Retention

Discussion Cases for the 2005 Council of Chief State School Officers Summer Institute

Case briefs prepared for small-group work at CCSSO’s 2005 Summer Institute. The cases are built around nationwide challenges and individual states that have met those challenges with success. Included in this sampling are the following:

Aligning High School Exit with Post-Secondary Entrance/Placement Expectations in Oregon

Cultivating the Grassroots: Broad-Based Engagement through Community and Stakeholder Dialogue in Nebraska

Building Capacity to Support Students with Special Needs, with a Focus on Special Education Students in Ohio

Alternative and Multiple Measures of Student Performance in Rhode Island

Education for the 21st Century
An article in Council Quarterly, the Newsletter of the Council of Chief State School Officers, on states’ challenges to drive public education to meet the demands of an emerging economy.

 

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