Description: Several school districts in Georgia are currently using the Individual Knowledge Assessment of Number (IKAN; Ministry of Education, 2011) and the Global Strategy Stage (GloSS; Ministry of Education, 2012) for which there is very limited psychometric data. ... » more info

Description: The Teacher's Guide to Supporting Family Involvement in K–3 Literacy will be a suite of resources teachers can use with families to encourage and facilitate literacy support for children at home. The suite of resources will be grade-specific ... » more info

Description: There are two goals for the proposed product. The first goal is to improve pre-service teacher preparation in delivering reading instruction so that when teachers are hired they are better equipped to teach foundational reading skills to students in their ... » more info

Description: Children entering kindergarten and first grade vary greatly in emergent literacy skills. One way to address those gaps is to build the capacity of preschool educators to provide 3–5-year-old children evidence-based emergent literacy instruction. This tool ... » more info

Description: Of the 180 local school systems in Georgia, 178 districts are implementing performance contracts through the state's waiver program—135 are Strategic Waiver School Systems (SWSS), and 43 are Charter Systems. The development and implementation of Georgia's ... » more info

Description: This project focuses on variations in outcomes for students taking Biology online with the Florida Virtual School. Significant attention has been paid to the importance of high-quality instruction and the fact that the specific instructional practices used ... » more info

Description: North Carolina has been at the vanguard of supporting high quality early childhood education (ECE) by working consistently on improving the quality of its means-tested prekindergarten programs; this is demonstrated in part by its use of a Quality Rating ... » more info

Description: North Carolina educators have routinely administered screening and monitoring assessments statewide in the primary grades over the past six years, yet the percentage of students reaching grade-level performance at the end of grade 3 has largely remained ... » more info

Description: The School Leader's Literacy Walkthrough for Grades 4–12 will be a user-friendly tool for school leaders based on evidence-based literacy practices that will help them recognize the specific literacy components and aspects of instruction ... » more info

Description: The Self-study guide for implementing adult education evidence-based literacy practices: A blueprint for change tool will provide a template for a team of adult educators to assess their implementation of an adult education program's literacy practices and ... » more info

Description: The goal of this project is to create and provide State Education Agencies and Local Education Agencies with a self-study guide template for a team of educators to assess their implementation of career counseling practices across a district or school and ... » more info

Description: The goal of this project is to produce a self-study guide for grades PreK–12 that provides a template for a team of state, district, and school leaders to assess their implementation of a literacy coaching program and facilitate a consensus-building ... » more info

Description: This study will investigate whether the STEPSS intervention increases students' conceptual understanding in statistics as compared with practice as usual through a randomized controlled trial. STEPSS includes two complementary components: four days of ... » more info

Description: The REL Southeast has been asked by members of the Southeast School Readiness partnership, which includes state education agency representatives from the six states in the Southeast region, to provide an up-to-date systematic review of the literature on ... » more info

Members of the REL Southeast Improving Literacy Alliance from Hillsborough County Public Schools requested a partnership to address their district's growing achievement gap, fueled in part by an increasing number of English learner students. These alliance members see as a potential ... » more info