Scaling Checklists: Assessing Your Level of Evidence and Readiness (SCALER)

The SCALER framework can help organizations improve the lives of more people by preparing them to successfully scale effective interventions.

Scaling an Intervention: Recommendations and Resources

AmeriCorps commissioned this guide to disseminate the knowledge gained from the Scaling Evidence-Based Models project and provide practical recommendations for how funders, including governmental agencies and philanthropic organizations, should think about and plan for scaling.

Evidence of Effectiveness in AmeriCorps Funded Interventions

This work is designed to generate practical knowledge about how AmeriCorps might foster the successful scaling of effective interventions and help support AmeriCorps’ efforts to identify which interventions work and how they can work for more people.

Scaling the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) intervention

This report describes the scaling of Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), a home visiting intervention that seeks to help parents improve their young children’s development, by Parent Possible and its partners.

Scaling the Birth and Beyond (B&B) intervention: Insights from the Experiences of the Child Abuse Prevention Council

This report describes the scaling of Birth and Beyond, a parenting education and support intervention designed to reduce child maltreatment, by the Child Abuse Prevention Council of Sacramento and its partners.

Scaling Programs with Research Evidence and Effectiveness (SPREE)

This journal article describes a process called SPREE — Scaling Programs with Research Evidence and Effectiveness — that can help funders and their grantees scale effective interventions successfully.

What Matters for Student Achievement? Exploring Teacher Instructional Practices and the Role of School-Level and Student-Level Characteristics

The purpose of this exploratory study is to provide evidence on how teaching practices might contribute to student learning in different ways for different groups of students or in different kinds of schools.

Evaluation of the Teacher Potential Project

Mathematica’s report on the Teacher Potential Project, an initiative of EL Education, finds that the program—which includes an English language arts standards-aligned curriculum and embedded professional development for teachers—can improve teacher instructional practices and student achievement.

Sustaining Effective Teacher Practice: The Impact of the EL Education Language Arts Curriculum and Professional Development on Teachers’ Instruction

Teachers who engaged with EL Education’s English Language Arts Curriculum and professional development more often demonstrated Common Core State Standards-aligned instructional practices compared to teachers receiving the curriculum and professional development provided by their districts.

Transforming Teachers' Practice: The Impact of EL Education's English Language Arts Curriculum and Professional Learning on Teacher Practices

The widespread adoption of more rigorous state guidelines for student learning, such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), has led to tremendous interest in how best to prepare and develop teachers to foster the skills that students need to meet the new standards and succeed in college and careers.

The Educational and Behavioral Impacts of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Charter School (Journal Article)

The Kauffman School is a public charter school serving students from low-income neighborhoods in Kansas City, Missouri.

Understanding District-Charter Collaboration Grants (Final Report)

In November 2012, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested in seven innovative district-charter partnerships with “the potential capacity and commitment to accelerate student college ready rates through deep collaboration and sharing of best practices.”

The Founding of an Urban Charter School: Three Years of Academic Growth and Key School Characteristics

After years of operating programs focused on improving education in Kansas City, Kauffman Foundation leaders decided to establish charter school. The path they followed and the lessons they learned may be of interest to those working to found and/or improve charter schools.

The Educational and Behavioral Impacts of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Charter School

The Kauffman School is a public charter school that serves students from low-income neighborhoods in Kansas City, Missouri. This report evaluates the effectiveness of the school at improving student achievement, attendance, and suspension outcomes during its first three years of operation.

District-Charter Collaboration Grant Implementation: Findings for Teacher and Principal Surveys

This interim report examines the implementation of district-charter collaboration grants funded by the Gates Foundation.