Southeast: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, & South Carolina
Regional Needs
The REL Southeast uses a variety of methods to assess regional needs on an ongoing basis including: maintaining an active state-based outreach function to connect with SEAs, regular meetings with key stakeholders, and conducting market research sessions with client groups. Current high-priority need areas are:
- High School Improvement: Topics related to efforts to improve secondary school outcomes such as improving graduation rates and improving the likelihood of postsecondary completion (e.g., career academies, dual enrollment, virtual schools, early warning indicator systems to track at-risk students, and measuring student engagement)
- Achievement of Subgroups: Topics related to improving the performance of subgroups (e.g., Response to Intervention, strategies for English Language Learners, accelerating achievement for at-risk students, and needs of homeless students)
- Assisting Low-Performing Schools: Topics related to issues around interventions and approaches to assisting low-performing schools
- Improving Classroom Instruction: Topics related to improving rigor and teaching effectiveness in classrooms (formative assessment in math, literacy and writing across the curriculum, and middle school science)
- Support for Evidence-Based Decision Making: Topics related to how districts or schools are using research and evaluation (e.g., evaluating professional development and using the information to improve support for teachers)
