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California's 2010s systemic alignment of standards, curriculum frameworks, instructional materials, assessments, teacher education, equitable funding, and multiple measures accountability

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The paper presents California's 2010s reforms, enacted while the author was State Board of Education president, as a promising example of systemic standards-based reform. The state "developed alignment among standards, curriculum frameworks, instructional materials, assessments, and teacher education, coupled with a new, more equitable funding system, and a multiple measures accountability system." The paper judges the educator-capacity impact positive but limited, because no infrastructure existed for delivering high-quality professional development intensively across the state.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Data systems to bring structures and systems together and ensure they support teaching and learning

Constraints

  • Investments in educator capacity were made without an infrastructure for delivering high-quality professional development intensively across the state

Target Learners

  • K-12 students and educators in California

Learning Goals

  • Standards-aligned instruction in English language arts, math, science, and history/civics

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Key Sources

  • Kirst, M. W. (2024). Standards-based education reforms: Looking back to look forward. Learning Policy Institute. https://doi.org/10.54300/647.623
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title California's 2010s systemic alignment of standards, curriculum frameworks, instructional materials, assessments, teacher education, equitable funding, and multiple measures accountability
description The paper presents California's 2010s reforms, enacted while the author was State Board of Education president, as a promising example of systemic standards-based reform.
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