Carrie Germeroth

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Program Evaluation Toolkit

The Program Evaluation Toolkit presents a step-by-step process for conducting your own program evaluation. The Quick Start Guide will help you decide if you are ready to use this toolkit and where to start.
Dec 22, 2021
Blog

REL Central Tool Can Help Early Childhood Education Professionals Optimize Their Data Use

As the education community heads back to school following a disruptive year-and-a-half, the importance of using formative assessment data to uncover and address learning gaps cannot be overstated.
Date published:
Sep 24, 2021
resource Training Material

Professionalizing Early Childhood Education: A Tool to Increase Data Use

Time: 1:00 - 2:30 pm MT Location: Rocky Mountain Early Childhood Conference: Virtual Description: This session is intended to build early childhood educator data-use with a publicly available tool developed by the Colorado Department of Education and the Regional Educational Laboratory Central. Participants will engage with a data use checklist and accompanying resource guide to improve their capacity to use data to inform instructional improvement as well as overall program data use. Partici...
Mar 25, 2021
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Early Childhood Data Use Assessment Tool

The Early Childhood Data Use Assessment Tool is designed to identify and improve data use skills among early childhood education (ECE) program staff so they can better use data to inform, plan, monitor, and make decisions for instruction and program improvement. Data use is critical in quality ECE programs but can be intimidating for some ECE program staff. This tool supports growth in their data use skills. The tool has three components: (1) a checklist to identify staff skills in using chil...
Mar 01, 2021
Blog

Evaluating Colorado Preschool Program Eligibility Factors

Research has shown that the value of prekindergarten education for young learners is significant. Children who attend preK tend to enjoy greater success later in their academic careers and are statistically less likely to drop out of high school or be involved in juvenile crime. Unfortunately, it has also been established that access to preK education is often tied to issues surrounding equity as children from resource-challenged households are often...
Date published:
Jan 04, 2021
Blog

Value of Flex Scheduling Emerging During Social Distancing

The concept of "flex scheduling," which combines student choice, extended instruction, and intentional support for all students during the school day, is a component of personalized learning that's also come to the forefront of the modern education discussion lately. Providing students with choice and flexibility regarding when, where, and how they learn has the potential to improve not only their academic achievement but also their motivation, engagement, ag...
Date published:
Jul 02, 2020
Blog

New Cross-REL Early Childhood Math Resource Is Designed for Families and Caregivers

Patterns are everywhere. Numbers are everywhere. And, as we've come to appreciate in recent weeks, learning is everywhere. Sometimes we just need a little support to help us discover learning in our daily lives. A new cross-REL resource page titled Teaching Math to Young Children: Resources for Families and Caregivers is designed to provide that guidance. The new resource is a collaborative effort from three Regional Educational Laboratories: Appala...
Date published:
Jun 05, 2020
Blog

Maintaining School Culture to Support Students' Social-Emotional Learning

While we all continue to deal with the ramifications of the coronavirus pandemic, education professionals throughout the world are finding innovative solutions to a variety of recently encountered learning-related challenges. One such challenge is meeting students' social-emotional learning (SEL) needs as they continue to adjust to life in a COVID-19 world. Students' SEL capacities are very much being challenged now as routine disruption, distance learning, and ...
Date published:
Jun 03, 2020
resource Fact Sheet/Infographic/FAQ

Internet Connectivity Across the Central States: South Dakota

To stop the spread of COVID-19, schools across the country have had to rely on remote learning instead of in-person classes. The shift to remote learning continues to shed further light on the digital divide for students who lack reliable access to the Internet and learning resources. This infographic focuses on South Dakota.
Jan 01, 2020
resource Fact Sheet/Infographic/FAQ

Internet Connectivity Across the Central States: Nebraska

To stop the spread of COVID-19, schools across the country have had to rely on remote learning instead of in-person classes. The shift to remote learning continues to shed further light on the digital divide for students who lack reliable access to the Internet and learning resources. This infographic focuses on Nebraska.
Jan 01, 2020
resource Fact Sheet/Infographic/FAQ

Internet Connectivity Across the Central States: Missouri

To stop the spread of COVID-19, schools across the country have had to rely on remote learning instead of in-person classes. The shift to remote learning continues to shed further light on the digital divide for students who lack reliable access to the Internet and learning resources. This infographic focuses on Missouri.
Jan 01, 2020
resource Fact Sheet/Infographic/FAQ

Internet Connectivity Across the Central States: Kansas

To stop the spread of COVID-19, schools across the country have had to rely on remote learning instead of in-person classes. The shift to remote learning continues to shed further light on the digital divide for students who lack reliable access to the Internet and learning resources. This infographic focuses on Kansas.
Jan 01, 2020
resource Fact Sheet/Infographic/FAQ

Internet Connectivity Across the Central States: Colorado

To stop the spread of COVID-19, schools across the country have had to rely on remote learning instead of in-person classes. The shift to remote learning continues to shed further light on the digital divide for students who lack reliable access to the Internet and learning resources. This infographic focuses on Colorado.
Jan 01, 2020
Blog

Using Research on Prekindergarten Indicators of Quality to Improve Kindergarten Readiness

Just a few weeks before the start of school, 13 early childhood teachers and staff from the Hallsville R-IV and Glenwood R-8 School Districts in Missouri, including Superintendents John Downs and Wayne Stewart, gathered to discuss the research on quality indicators for prekindergarten (PK) classrooms. The Hallsville school district has plans to open its first PK classroom with the passage of Missouri House Bill 1689 that allows for the funding of PK students who...
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Dec 02, 2019
Blog

Updated Practical Ideas Guide Helps Educators and Their Evaluators Apply the Colorado State Model Evaluation System to an Early Childhood Setting

The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) collaborated with REL Central to revise the Practical Ideas for Evaluating Early Childhood Educators. This guide is one of several that CDE developed as a resource to help teachers and their evaluators consider how they can interpret the revised Colorado State Model Evaluation System for Teachers in different education settings (for example, in library, physical education, and early childhood environments). The newly ...
Date published:
May 01, 2019
Blog

Colorado Early Childhood Education Staff Use Data to Support Program Improvement

As part of the Early Childhood Education Research Alliance, staff from the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) partnered with REL Central to provide more resources that support early childhood teachers and administrators who struggle with using formative assessment data in CDE's Results Matter program. This program improves outcomes for Colorado's youngest children by helping teachers, administrators, families, and other education stakeholders use authentic as...
Date published:
Feb 01, 2019
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What Influences Teacher Attrition

National data suggest that, from one year to the next, about 84 percent of teachers remain in the same school, 8 percent transfer to a different school, and 8 percent leave the profession (Goldring et al., 2014). Leaver. A classroom teacher who takes a nonteaching position or exits a state public school system. For example, a classroom teacher who becomes a principal in the same school is considered a leaver because he or she has left a classroom teaching position. Mover. A classroom teacher ...
Jan 01, 2019
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Teacher Mobility in Rural Settings

Movement of Teachers from Rural and Nonrural Schools Consistent with previous national-level research, a REL Central study found that, across four states, 82 percent of teachers stayed in the same schools, 8 percent moved to different schools or districts, and 10 percent left the teaching profession or a state public school system. When Teachers Moved, Where Did They Go? The REL Central study found that teachers were less likely to move to rural districts. Most teachers who transferred from r...
Jan 01, 2019
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Grow Your Own: Fostering a Diverse Teacher Workforce in Missouri

Research suggests that students may have better outcomes with teachers who match their own race/ethnicity. Missouri sees the need to recruit high-quality, diverse teacher candidates to better match the diverse student populations in many Missouri schools. This infographic will help MO DESE build awareness of the need for GYO programs by familiarizing stakeholders with key demographic differences among students and teachers, including individuals enrolled in educator preparation programs and t...
Jan 01, 2019
resource Fact Sheet/Infographic/FAQ

Colorado Department of Education Crosswalk: 2018 State and Federal School Identifications

The goal of our education system in Colorado is to prepare all students for success in the workforce and college. Each year, every school and district receives a performance rating under the state accountability system to let parents and communities know how well they are doing in meeting the goal of preparing students for success after high school. In addition to state performance ratings, the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) includes an accountability component intended to identify...
Jan 01, 2019