Anne Porterfield

Short- and Long-Term Impacts of High-Quality Early Childhood Education Programs

For more than a decade, teacher evaluation systems have been used to serve dual purposes: assessing teacher accountability and informing development opportunities. Evidence of gains from teacher evaluation systems that support professional growth does exist. Through its Ask an Expert service, REL West reviewed some of the most recent, relevant research in this area for a school district. REL West identified three themes--each of which has implications for designing and implementing teacher ev...

This blog post discusses evidence-based practices to support Native American students' academic achievement. The content is based on recent work done by REL West with the San Juan School District in Utah.

Does your teacher evaluation tool include these six key elements of effective teaching? Effective teachers improve student outcomes, both academic and behavioral. Below we summarize six, research-based elements of effective teaching.

As Kate Williams, principal of Alaska's Cordova Junior/Senior High School, and her team reflected on the benefits of their current four-day school week schedule, they also wondered about its potential costs and implications. Williams asked if REL Northwest could provide her with an annotated bibliography of the available research on four-day school weeks. REL Northwest determined that her question was most appropriate for the new Ask an Expert service, which provides evidence-based informatio...