Regional Needs  |  Projects

Southeast: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, & South Carolina

The REL Southeast uses a variety of methods to assess regional needs on an ongoing basis including conducting market research and focus groups, convening stake holders, and surveying key education leaders. It also facilitates the Consortium of Educators for Evidence-Based Education (CEEBE) which brings together district leaders from across the Southeast interested in using research to improve teaching and learning. As an ongoing service, the REL Southeast operates the Evidence-Based Education (EBE) Help Desk that provides timely information on issues of local, regional, and national concern. The REL Southeast Year Two scope work examines:

1. Evidence-based professional development interventions that improve instruction and achievement in early vocabulary development, adolescent literacy across the content areas, and mathematics and science.
2. Teaching and learning for under-served groups (e.g., English language learners, African-American males and students with disabilities).
3. Research and evaluation to inform emerging state approaches to the reform of high schools and to improve student effort on various types of academic tasks.
4. Assessments used for program evaluation purposes to evaluate early childhood programs.