Emily Asqueri

Recognizing the urgent need for improvement, several Montana school districts are working with REL Northwest to address effective, data-driven decisionmaking. The shared goal is to improve student literacy achievement by boosting the implementation of evidence-based literacy teaching practices by using a Multi-Tiered System of Support in Reading (MTSS-R) and engaging in Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles.

For the next installment of our partnership series, we go back to Oregon. Here, we discuss REL Northwest's partnership work with the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) to improve outcomes for students in historically underserved groups.

Our next blog in this nine-part series focusing on the work of REL Northwest takes us to the state of Washington. During early project planning, Washington's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) recognized a need to improve students' reading and writing proficiencies by providing clear priorities and broader goals for literacy education. Together, OSPI and REL Northwest are working to enhance students' literacy skills from preK through grade 12 through a literacy initiative t...