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Alleviating Teacher Shortages through the Wyoming Teacher Apprenticeship Initiative

As teacher apprenticeship programs gain popularity across the United States, REL Central is supporting evidence gathering and program implementation of Wyoming's newly created Teacher Apprenticeship Initiative. The initiative addresses position shortages by supporting paraprofessionals, already employed in school districts, who would like to become fully certified teachers.
Date published:
Nov 14, 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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REL Central Launches Program Evaluation Toolkit

REL Central's Joshua Stewart shares how the Program Evaluation Toolkit was developed and provides a rundown on what readers will find as they explore this new, user-friendly resource...
Date published:
Nov 19, 2021
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Training Session 6: Monitoring Outcomes of Wyoming Statewide System of Support Professional Learning

August 12, 2021 Time: 9:00-10:30 a.m. MT Location: Virtual event Description: Roger Goddard, professor in the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University, will share information on how collective efficacy relates to professional learning communities (PLCs). REL Central will then review the goal of the project when it started in September 2020. Next, Statewide System of Support team members will share their progress in evaluating PLC implementation across Wyoming. Finally, R...
Aug 12, 2021
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Training Session 3- Day 3 Wyoming Computer Science Micro-Credential Development

Time: 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. MT Location: Virtual Event Description: This training will provide an opportunity for partners to apply and deepen their knowledge about developing a high-quality micro-credentials. The training will focus on building the partners' capacity to contribute to development of policies that support the use of micro-credentials for teacher learning, including how the state and districts might incentivize teachers to complete micro-credentials. Partnership or Research Al...
Dec 10, 2020
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Training Session 3- Day 2 Wyoming Computer Science Micro-Credential Development

Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. MT Location: Virtual Event Description: This training will provide an opportunity for partners to apply and deepen their knowledge about developing a high-quality micro-credentials. The training will focus on building the partners' capacity in the areas of inter-rater reliability for micro-credential reviewers and the micro-credential design principle of validity-minded evidence. Partnership or Research Alliance: Wyoming State Support Research Partnership Audienc...
Nov 17, 2020
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Training Session 3: Monitoring Outcomes of Wyoming Statewide System of Support Professional Learning

Time: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. MT Location: Virtual event Description: This training will focus on assessing data quality as well as identifying available data and needs for additional data to address the evaluation questions developed by partners following Training 2. Partnership or Research Alliance: Wyoming State Support Research Partnership Audience: Provide a description of the intended audience Wyoming Department of Education, Statewide System of Support team members Speakers: Jeanette Joy...
Nov 12, 2020
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Colorado Preschool Program Eligibility Indicators Meeting 1

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MT Location: Virtual Description: This training will present the materials that the Colorado Preschool Program (CPP) staff can use to provide clearer guidance to districts in terms of the approval process for expanded criteria for the CPP application. These materials include support on how to develop a theory of action and how to review the quality of research, along with an application guide that REL Central and CPP staff codeveloped. Partnership or Research Al...
Oct 23, 2020
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Training 2: Monitoring Outcomes of Wyoming Statewide System of Support Professional Learning

Time: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. MT Location: Virtual event Description: This training will focus on developing evaluation questions aligned to the logic model created by the partners following Training 1. Partnership or Research Alliance: Wyoming State Support Research Partnership Audience: Wyoming Department of Education, Statewide System of Support team members Speakers: Jeanette Joyce, REL Central Joshua Stewart, REL Central Mike Siebersma, REL Central Mckenzie Haines, REL Central David McCull...
Oct 08, 2020
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Training Session 1 - Monitoring Outcomes of Wyoming Statewide System of Support (SoSS) Professional Learning

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. MT Location: Virtual Event Description: This training will provide an opportunity for partners to refine a problem statement and develop a logic model, which will serve as the foundation for their evaluation of SoSS services. Partnership or Research Alliance: Wyoming State Support Research Partnership Audience: Wyoming Department of Education, SoSS team members Speakers: Jeanette Joyce, REL Central Joshua Stewart, REL Central Mike Siebersma, REL Central Mckenzie ...
Sep 10, 2020
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Data Model to Support Teacher Shortage Predictions

Read any newspaper and you will discover that finding qualified teachers for subjects such as math, science, and even English language arts can be a challenge in many regions of the United States. That challenge poses a serious problem for many education leaders trying to ensure their students receive an excellent education. It is imperative to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MO DESE) to provide excellent, qualified teachers to eve...
Date published:
Aug 04, 2020
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An Approach to Using Student and Teacher Data to Understand and Predict Teacher Shortages

Addressing teacher shortages has been a persistent concern among leaders in schools, districts, state education agencies, and the federal government. This report describes an approach to identifying patterns of teacher shortages that was collaboratively developed by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Regional Educational Laboratory Central. The approach is implemented using widely available software. It can be adopted or adapted by education agencies that wi...
Jan 01, 2020
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Guide to Conducting a Needs Assessment for American Indian Students

This guide was designed to help state and local education agencies conduct needs assessments to better understand the strengths, challenges, and needs unique to schools serving American Indian students. It includes surveys developed collaboratively with communities that serve American Indian students to reflect the most relevant topics. Using results from these surveys, the guide provides examples of how to target and monitor improvement efforts that reduce gaps in outcomes between American I...
Jan 01, 2020
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Associations between the qualifications of middle school Algebra I teachers and student math achievement

Historically, students took Algebra I in high school, but there has been a recent trend toward taking it in middle school (Domina, 2014). In the past two decades the proportion of middle school students taking Algebra I or more-advanced math courses has doubled (Domina, 2014). Success in Algebra I is important because it is a gateway course for advanced math (Star et al., 2015). Students who take and pass Algebra I are more likely to take and pass more-advanced math courses in high school (Sn...
Jan 01, 2019