Essential Academic Learning Requirements and help students achieve proficiency on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning. We describe schooland classroom-level practices and analyze the schools' progress toward successful enactment of Washington's reform vision by considering six dimensions of school capacity: principal leadership; professional community; program coherence; technical resources; knowledge, skills, and dispositions of individual teachers; and learning opportunities for teachers. Supporting the claim that large-scale reform takes time, we argue that for a young reform effort "exemplary" is best understood in terms of capacity rather than outcome.
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