GIVE NOW |
New Horizons
for Learning
for Learning
Criteria for Identifying Best Practices
Innovative Practices are developed to improve student learning.
Criteria:
- Reflects students' needs and changing world he/she lives in
- Purposeful
- Gives early evidence of student learning
- Characterized by processes or methods new for teacher or school
Promising Practices are practices with supporting data to improve student learning.
Criteria:
- Less than 3 years of data
- Evidence of student success
- Potential for replication
Research Based Practices have a body of empirical evidence demonstrating student learning.
Criteria:
- Demonstrated success over time
- Demonstrated effective with specific student populations
- Supported by quantitative research. Could also have support from qualitative research
Validated Washington Models are practices with evidence to prove increased student performance on the new Washington State Assessment and can be replicated.
Criteria:
- Practice demonstrates successful student progress attainment on State accountability measures: 4th, 7th, and 10th
- Third party verification of results
- Comparison or control studies
Search New Horizons
New Horizons Links
New Horizons Shop
Featured Item: Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning: Insights from a Neurologist and Classroom Teacher
By Judy Willis | Purchase
Visit the New Horizons store on Amazon.com for more selections
