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| Continuous Improvement in Education: A Toolkit for Schools and Districts Continuous improvement processes engage key players within a system to focus on a specific problem of practice and, through a series of iterative cycles, test changes, gather data about the changes, and study the potential influence of these changes on outcomes of interest (Bryk et ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Tools ; Publication Date: October 2020 |
| Creating and Using Performance Assessments: An Online Course for Practitioners This self-paced, online course provides educators with detailed information on performance assessment. Through five modules, practitioners, instructional leaders, and administrators will learn foundational concepts of assessment literacy and how to develop, score, and use performance ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Tools ; Publication Date: November 2020 |
| Developing a Coherent Research Agenda: Lessons from the REL Northeast & Islands Research Agenda Workshops This report describes the approach that REL Northeast & Islands used to guide its eight research alliances toward collaboratively identifying a shared research agenda. A key feature of their approach was a two-workshop series, during which alliance members created a set of research ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Tools ; Publication Date: July 2014 |
| Developing the "Compendium of Strategies to Reduce Teacher Turnover in the Northeast and Islands Region": a Companion to the Database This report provides state-, regional-, and district-level decision makers in the Northeast and Islands Region with a description of the Compendium of Strategies to Reduce Teacher Turnover in the Northeast and Islands Region, a searchable database of selected profiles of retention ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Issues & Answers ; Publication Date: October 2008 |
| Do States Have Certification Requirements for Preparing General Education Teachers to Teach Students with Disabilities? Experience In the Northeast and Islands Region This report on teacher certification requirements in the Northeast and Islands Region finds that eight of the nine jurisdictions require some coursework in teaching students with disabilities for initial licensure of general education teachers. |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Issues & Answers ; Publication Date: August 2010 |
| Early Childhood Educator and Administrator Surveys The Early Childhood Educator Survey and the Early Childhood Administrator Survey allow users to collect consistent data on the use of child assessments and learning standards in early childhood learning settings. Each survey includes modules on educator/administrator background ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Tools ; Publication Date: April 2014 |
| Enrollment rates of children in universal prekindergarten programs in Vermont in 2016/17 The purpose of this study was to examine the enrollment patterns in Vermont’s universal, mixed-delivery prekindergarten (preK) program and the child characteristics associated with the likelihood of being enrolled in different program types. This study describes the characteristics of ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Descriptive Study ; Publication Date: January 2020 |
| Exploring district-level expenditure-to-performance ratios Districts across the nation are seeking ways to increase efficiency by maintaining, if not improving, educational outcomes using fewer resources. One proxy for school district efficiency is an expenditure-to-performance ratio, for example a ratio of per pupil expenditures to student ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Applied Research Methods ; Publication Date: March 2017 |
| Exploring Implementation of Attendance Supports to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in the Providence Public School District In recent years Rhode Island's Providence Public School District (PPSD) has put initiatives in place to reduce high chronic absenteeism. This study explored attendance supports aimed at reducing chronic absenteeism that PPSD schools implemented in the 2018/19 school year. Although some ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Descriptive Study ; Publication Date: September 2021 |
| Features of State Response to Intervention Initiatives in Northeast and Islands Region States The report documents the results of a search of state education agency web sites in the nine Northeast and Islands Region jurisdictions for publicly available information related to RTI (response to intervention). It finds that seven jurisdictions have developed state documents on RTI ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Issues & Answers ; Publication Date: November 2009 |
| Five States' Efforts to Improve Adolescent Literacy This report describes efforts by five states—Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Rhode Island—to improve adolescent literacy. Highlighting common challenges and lessons, the report examines how each state has engaged key stakeholders, set rigorous goals and ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Issues & Answers ; Publication Date: April 2009 |
| Gearing Up to Teach the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics in Rural Northeast Region Schools This study describes key challenges and necessary supports related to implementation of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) identified by rural math educators in the Northeast. The research team interviewed state and district math coordinators and surveyed teachers ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: What's Happening ; Publication Date: December 2014 |
| Gender Gaps in Assessment Outcomes in Vermont and the United States Using data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP), the report examines how gender gaps differ between Vermont NAEP scores and U.S. NAEP scores and between Vermont NAEP and NECAP scores in grades 4 and 8. Overall ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Issues & Answers ; Publication Date: August 2008 |
| Graduation outcomes of students who entered New York City public schools in grade 5 or 6 as English learner students This study describes high school graduation outcomes for students who entered New York City schools in grade 5 or 6 as English learner students. It uses longitudinal administrative data from New York City public schools to focus on 1,734 students who entered New York City schools and ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Making Connections ; Publication Date: February 2017 |
| Guide to the Competency-based Learning Survey for Students Many states are beginning to move away from policies that base student advancement on credits and "seat time" toward competency-based learning policies that provide schools with the flexibility to link advancement to a student's mastery of content. As schools and districts implement ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Tools ; Publication Date: August 2016 |