Recent Publications by Rebecca Reumann-Moore
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Boosting Children’s Language and Literacy Skills Through Blueprint: An Evaluation of Children’s Literacy Initiative’s Blueprint for Early Literacy 2017 – 2019
RFA’s three-year mixed methods evaluation of Children’s Literacy Initiative’s language and literacy supports found positive impacts despite higher-than-typical teacher turnover. In pre-K centers receiving CLI supports, teachers were more able to implement effective instructional practices…
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Supporting Literacy in Out-of-School Time: An Examination of OST Early Literacy Practices in Philadelphia
Philadelphia’s Out-of-School Time (OST) system has identified K-3rd grade literacy support as the focus of the first phase of its strategic plan, launched in 2017. Research shows that OST programs can have an impact on…
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Supporting Literacy in Out-of-School Time: Summary of Evidence
The City of Philadelphia’s Citywide Out‐of‐School‐Time (OST) Initiative was launched in February 2017 to better coordinate and focus the capacities of OST programs on the needs of the city’s children. The first phase of this initiative…
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Educating English Language Learners: Opportunities for Improved Infrastructure
PERC research is produced through collaboration between researchers from Research for Action and the School District of Philadelphia’s Office of Research and Evaluation. For more information, please visit phledresearch.org. In Philadelphia, a growing and increasingly…
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National School and Community Corps 2005: Members’ Perspectives on Service and its Impact – Executive Summary
Summary of a report to EducationWorks on the National School and Community Corps that presents data that speak strongly to the impact of service on corpsmembers, providing perceptions that enable an understanding of their experience…
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Making A Difference: Year Two Report of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative – Executive Summary
The Executive Summary to the Making a Difference: Year Two Report of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative. This report examines the implementation of the second year of three for the Pennsylvania High School Coaching…
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Promising InRoads: Year One of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative – Executive Summary
Executive summary to the report that examines the implementation of the first year of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative. Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, it is an on-site professional development initiative that employs instructional…
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Six Years of Philadelphia GEAR UP – Executive summary
This executive summary gives an overview of major challenges, key outcomes for each goal, and recomendations after six years of Philadelphia GEAR UP. GEAR UP had three explicit primary goals: Enhancing Academic Support, Enhancing College…
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Using Common Assignments to Strengthen Teaching and Learning: Research on the Second Year of Implementation
In this second report on implementation of the Common Assignment Study (CAS), RFA’s research focuses on providing formative feedback on unit implementation; teacher collaboration; the status of context and conditions for CAS success, including school…
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Using Common Assignments to Strengthen Teaching and Learning: Research on the First Year of Implementation
The Common Assignment Study (CAS) is a research project designed to shed light on the progress and outcomes of the initiative. RFA’s research focuses on providing formative feedback on unit design, unit implementation, and supports…
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An Evaluation of the Regional Environmental Education Program Middle School and High School Curriculum
An evaluation of the Regional Environmental Education Program (REEP) developed by the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education (SCEE) to promote awareness of environmental issues among schoolchildren. An analysis of data from the 1995-1996 school year…
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Going Small: Progress and Challenges of Philadelphia’s Small High Schools
Between 2003 and 2007, and without significant outside funding, the School District of Philadelphia created 25 new small high schools. This study, begun by Research for Action in 2006, follows the start-up and early implementation…
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Friends for School Purposes: Learning Communities and their Role in Building Community at a Large Urban University
An analysis of the Learning Communities program at Temple University in Philadelphia, launched in 1993 with funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts. The program was created with the aim of improving the experiences of first-semester…
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Links to Learning and Sustainability: Year Three Report of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative
Research for Action’s third and final report completes a three-year evaluation study of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative (PAHSCI). This report presents lessons from the PAHSCI model of school-based instructional coaching and mentoring as…
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A View from the Inside: Teachers’ Perceptions and Use of the LDC Framework
As part of our multi-year evaluation for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of literacy teaching tools aligned to the CCSS, this booklet is a synthesis of what we learned from practitioners over the course…
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Boosting Adolescent and Young Adult Literacy: An Examination of Literacy Teaching and Learning in Philadelphia’s Accelerated High Schools
In 2010-11, the School District of Philadelphia (the District) operated thirteen accelerated high schools that served approximately 2,000 under-credited, over-age students. Each of the accelerated schools was managed by one of seven external providers, each…
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CCSS Literacy and Math Tools: An Interim Report on Implementation and Sustainability during the Pilot Year
This document summarizes the findings from the initial round of research on the development and piloting of two types of instructional tools designed to support teachers’ integration of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in…
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Children at Play: An Evaluation of EW/NSCC’s Socialized Recess Program
This report evaluates socialized recess programs conducted by Education Works/National School and Community Corps (EW/NSCC) school-based teams. It is intended to give EW/NSCC deeper insights into the accomplishments and challenges of the program and to…
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Establishing a Strong Foundation: Classroom Implementation of the LDC and MDC Frameworks Executive Summary
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has invested in the development and dissemination of high quality instructional and formative assessment tools to support teachers’ incorporation of the Core Common State Standards (CCSS) into their classroom…
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National School and Community Corps 2005: Members’ Perspectives on Service and its Impact – An Evaluation Report for EducationWorks
This report to EducationWorks on the National School and Community Corps presents an analysis of how corpsmembers’ service experience affected their attitudes about civic responsibility and self, their learning and development, and their future plans.…
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Establishing a Strong Foundation: District and School Supports for Classroom Implementation of the LDC Framework
In 2010-11, the LDC framework was piloted in six districts, a teacher network, and a network of schools. In most cases, school districts applied for and received grants to implement LDC; in others, regional intermediaries…
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Promising InRoads: Year One Report of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative
This report examines the implementation of the first year of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative. Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, it is an on-site professional development initiative that employs instructional coaches using Penn Literacy…
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Brief Two: Robust Implementation of LDC: Teacher Perceptions of Tool Use and Outcomes
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has invested in the development and dissemination of high-quality instructional and formative assessment tools to support teachers’ incorporation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) into their classroom instruction.…
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Six Years of Philadelphia GEAR UP
This summary report draws on multiple years of research about Philadelphia Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) to assess GEAR UP’s progress toward meeting three primary goals: (1) Enhancing Academic Support;…
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Enacting Common Core Instruction: A Comparative Study of the Use of LDC Literacy Tools in Three Sites
As of the writing of this report, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are being implemented in 45 states and the District of Columbia. Approaches to implementing the standards, however, are highly varied. For the…
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Going Small: Start Up and Early Implementation of Small High Schools in Philadelphia
The summary of findings from year one of Research for Action’s study, ‘Going Small: Public Private Collaboration in Restructuring High School Education in Philadelphia’ provides a brief introduction and background to Philadelphia’s small high schools.…
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Enacting Common Core Instruction: How Intermediate Unit 13 Leveraged its Position as an Educational Service Agency to Implement and Scale the LDC Initiative
Following three years of extensive data collection in LDC study sites throughout the country, Research for Action (RFA) has produced three case studies to illustrate how the LDC and MDC tools have been adopted in…
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Making A Difference: Year Two Report of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative
This report examines the implementation of the second year of three for the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative (PAHSCI). Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, this initiative focuses on literacy and math coaches providing support to…
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Informing High School Choices: The Progress & Challenges of Small High Schools in Philadelphia
In the School District of Philadelphia in 2007-08, almost one third of high school students attend one of the district’s 32 small high schools. Of these, 26 have been newly created or significantly changed since…