Putting Research into Action
The Regional Educational Laboratory Central translates research to practice with policymakers and practitioners in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
Legacy High School in Bismarck, North Dakota, is partnering with REL Central to understand how students use their unscheduled or flexible time. Find out more in this blog post.
The Colorado Department of Education and REL Central collaborated with local early childhood education experts to update a resource that supports the implementation of the Colorado State Model Evaluation System.
Every year, Colorado schools and districts receive performance ratings under both state and federal accountability systems. Both ratings drive school and district improvement plans. This new infographic provides a crosswalk of state and federal school identifications in Colorado. View the infographic now.
Legacy High School in Bismarck, North Dakota, is partnering with REL Central to understand how students use their unscheduled or flexible time. Find out more in this blog post.
REL Central is partnering with the Colorado Department of Education to help school staff and community members better understand the complexities of state and federal education accountability systems. One way they will share this information is in a new infographic. Find out more in this blog post.
In this blog post, learn how the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is increasing awareness of Grow Your Own programs as a strategy for addressing teacher shortages and increasing diversity in the teacher workforce.
On average, 10.4 percent of teachers are leaving the teaching profession in four central states, according to a new report by REL Central. Education leaders from Colorado and Missouri plan to use the report’s data to support their efforts to improve teacher retention. Read more in this blog post.
Learn more about the research projects currently underway. More on our Works in Progress.
Ask A REL is a collaborative reference desk service provided by the ten Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) and functions much in the same way as a technical reference library.
This guide helps educators collect information about attitudes, perceptions, or factual information to inform their decisions on education policy or practice.
This guide offers a five-step process to design effective questionnaires that follow research-based guidelines and can be used to survey students, teachers, or parents.
This recorded webinar presents examples of formative assessment as a process used to identify learning targets, check for understanding, facilitate student involvement, analyze evidence, and provide and use feedback.
