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Communications Toolkit

LFA's Communications Toolkit aims to help education leaders communicate more effectively about public education. Based on focus groups and polling LFA commissioned in 2004 and 2005, the toolkit offers original research findings on public opinion, a guide to promoting public schools, and language for op-eds and speeches. It includes:


Staffing High-Need Schools

In 2005, Learning First Alliance organizations came together to produce a common framework for ensuring all students access to highly effective teachers and leaders in their schools: A Shared Responsibility: Staffing All High-Poverty, Low-Performing Schools with Effective Teachers and Administrators".


District-Wide Improvement: Success Stories

In 2003, the Alliance examined five high-poverty school districts with a strong track record of improving achievement. The resulting report, Beyond Islands of Excellence: What Districts Can Do to Improve Instruction and Achievement in All Schools, identifies a set of practical steps that schools and districts can take to move beyond a few excellent schools to success across entire systems. You can download the full report here, or you can review these related materials:


Reading and Mathematics

The Learning First Alliance's publications on mathematics and science remain perennial bestsellers. Over 30,000 have been downloaded from the internet in the past four years, and we have sold thousands more in hard-copy. These publications include:

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    Interlake High School

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    Only a decade ago, Interlake High School was the lowest-performing school in the Bellevue district. As Bellevue is an open enrollment district, Interlake parents and community members knew they needed an academically rigor­ous program to turn the school's performance around and draw students to the school. In 1997, Interlake implemented the prestigious International Bacca­laureate (IB) Degree program and in 2003 added the Advanced Placement pro­gram.

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    Click here to browse dozens of Public School Insights interviews with extraordinary education advocates, including:

  • Top-selling author Richard Louv
  • Teacher LeeAnn Galusha
  • Celebrated Author Dave Eggers
  • Teacher of the YearMichael Geisen
  • Award-Winning Principal Carmen Macchia
  • Fitness Legend Richard Simmons
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