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Reimagining for a Rural Context: Washington's Rural Alliance Partnership

In this next blog, we take a look at how REL Northwest is partnering with The Rural Alliance and member districts in Washington state to reimagine how evidence-based recommendations on technology-enhanced learning apply in rural contexts.
Date published:
Jul 12, 2024
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Addressing Working Conditions in Alaska to Improve Teacher Recruitment & Retention

Across the United States, school districts, both large and small, are facing challenges with recruiting and retaining high-quality teachers.
Date published:
Mar 09, 2023
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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
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Study Shows Remote Learning Plans Were Limited by Internet Access, Rurality

When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted in-person learning last year, a wide range of strategies to support virtual classrooms were implemented in schools and districts. Many state education agencies required their districts to submit remote learning plans detailing how they planned to continue serving students and families while school buildings were closed. As part of the Rural Education Research Alliance, REL Central examined available remote learning plans from Kansas, Ne...
Date published:
Oct 22, 2021
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Variations in District Strategies for Remote Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented and abrupt stoppage of in-person learning in schools across the country. State education agency leaders in Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wyoming needed information on proposed strategies in districts' remote learning plans to ensure continuity and better support remote learning in their states. This study used document analysis to examine proposed strategies related to infrastructure; strategies and supports for instruction; ...
Sep 01, 2021
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Leadership for Evidence and Data Use (LEAD) Fellowship

Time: 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. MT Location: Virtual Description: This training is the sixth in a series of seven trainings in which representatives from the seven state education agencies in the REL Central region work with their executive leaders to define high-leverage needs, explore data and evidence related to the needs, and identify possible solutions and strategies to address the needs. In the first training, cadre members reviewed the goals of the event series, practiced using some of the...
Aug 05, 2021
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Leadership for Evidence and Data Use (LEAD) Fellowship

Time: 12:00-2:00 p.m. MT Location: Virtual Description: This training is the third in a series of six trainings in which representatives from the seven state education agencies in the REL Central region work with their agencies' executive leaders to define high-leverage needs, explore data and evidence related to the needs, and identify possible solutions and strategies to address the needs. In the first training, cadre members reviewed the goals of the event series, practiced using some of t...
Mar 18, 2021
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Training 3: Interpreting Research on Student Use of Flexible Time

Time: 8:30-11:00 a.m. CT Location: Virtual event Description: This training will focus on completing a Plan-Do-Study-Act continuous improvement plan for a schoolwide strategy in response to the findings of the Legacy High School flexible-time study (Brodersen et al., 2020). Partnership or Research Alliance: North Dakota Innovative Schools Research Partnership Audience: Legacy High School staff Speakers: Matt Eide, REL Central Mike Siebersma, REL Central Anne Butterworth, REL Central David Ya...
Feb 12, 2021
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Exploring Implementation of Career Academies in Nebraska Schools- Training 1

Time: 9:00 am - 10:30 am MT Location: Virtual Description: REL Central and Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) partners will collaboratively review the project goals and overarching research questions. Next, REL Central will present case study design practices, including developing proposition statements and defining cases. Finally, we will facilitate review and development of data collection instruments and protocols. Partnership or Research Alliance: Nebraska School Improvement Research...
Feb 12, 2021
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Leadership for Evidence and Data Use (LEAD) Fellowship

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm MT Location: Virtual Description: This training is the second in a series of six trainings in which representatives from the seven SEAs in the REL Central region work with their agencies' executive leadership to define a high-leverage need, explore data and evidence related to the need, and identify possible solutions and strategies to address the need. In the first meeting, cadre members reviewed the goals of the event series, practiced using some of the protocols that ...
Feb 03, 2021
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Integrating an American Indian Student Needs Assessment Survey Into Your Current or New Initiatives

There is growing attention to personalizing education to provide students with more flexibility in their education experiences and more time to master academic content (Pane, Steiner, Baird, & Hamilton, 2015). To personalize education, Legacy High School in Bismarck Public Schools, North Dakota, has implemented a schedule that allows students some choice in how they spend a portion of the school day outside of their regularly scheduled classes. Students can choose to use this flexible time, c...
Jan 01, 2021
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Personalizing Education to Close Learning Gaps

If you weren't familiar with the term "personalized learning" before March, you've most likely gotten caught up to speed on the concept since then.
Date published:
Jul 15, 2020
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Collecting Equity Strategies to Improve Access to Excellent Teachers

Missouri's state equity plan calls for all students to have equitable access to excellent educators. However, after surveying districts, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MO DESE) found that in some rural areas, and areas with high concentrations of minority and lower income earning families, students do not have that access. To support these schools, MO DESE is partnering with REL Central to develop a survey and interview protocol to help districts ca...
Date published:
Feb 03, 2020
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How Legacy High School Students Use Their Flexible Time

There is growing attention to personalizing education to provide students with more flexibility in their education experiences and more time to master academic content (Pane, Steiner, Baird, & Hamilton, 2015). To personalize education, Legacy High School in Bismarck Public Schools, North Dakota, has implemented a schedule that allows students some choice in how they spend a portion of the school day outside of their regularly scheduled classes. Students can choose to use this flexible time, c...
Jan 01, 2020
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Overview of selected state policies and supports related to K-12 competency-based education

Competency-based education--also known as proficiency-based, mastery-based, and performance-based education--has received increased attention in recent years as an education approach that may help ensure that students graduate from high school with the knowledge and skills necessary for college and their careers. In competency-based education, students must demonstrate mastery of course content to be promoted to the next class or grade, rather than spending a required number of hours in a cla...
Jan 01, 2017
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Teachers' responses to feedback from evaluators: What feedback characteristics matter?

The importance of teacher effectiveness is well supported by studies that document variation in teachers' abilities to contribute to student achievement gains. All else being equal, students taught by some teachers experience greater achievement gains than do students taught by other teachers. In response to initiatives to increase educator effectiveness as directed through flexibility waivers under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, many states are implementing new teacher evaluatio...
Jan 01, 2016
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State policies for intervening in chronically low-performing schools: A 50-state scan

Recent federal initiatives such as School Improvement Grants and Elementary and Secondary Education Act flexibility emphasize the role of state education agencies in improving chronically low-performing schools. But state policies limit what actions state education agencies can take. As state education leaders and policymakers consider how best to intervene to improve these schools, they may wish to learn about the policies in other states. This report summarizes current policies in all 50 st...
Jan 01, 2016
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A Guide for Monitoring District Implementation of Educator Evaluation Systems

This guide was developed to provide guidance to states or districts wishing to monitor implementation of educator evaluation systems. It describes a three-step process: develop state guidelines for educator evaluation systems; develop data collection methods; and determine adherence criteria and review data against criteria. The process was developed by REL Central, working with personnel from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MO DESE). MO DESE is using the result...
Jan 01, 2015
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The Examining Evaluator Feedback Survey

This report presents a survey tool, developed by REL Central at Marzano Research, designed to gather information from teachers about their perceptions of and responses to evaluator feedback. District or state administrators can use this survey to systematically collect teacher perceptions on five key aspects of evaluation feedback: (1) feedback usefulness, (2) feedback accuracy, (3) evaluator credibility, (4) access to resources related to feedback, and (5) teacher response to feedback. The s...
Jan 01, 2015