Putting Research into Action
The Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Central partners with stakeholders in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington on using data and evidence to improve educational equity and student success.
A new blog post provides an overview of the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction's effort to enhance a survey designed to collect input from educators on the needs of schools with large Native American student populations. Learn more about how REL Central supported this effort.
A new video by REL Central provides an overview of the current terms associated with teacher movement and the ways these terms are used when researching teacher movement.
Work in Progress: This study is designed to identify the foundational knowledge and skills that are needed for Algebra I success in order to provide information that educators can use to identify students who are ready for Algebra I and those who need more support.
Work in Progress: This study is designed to provide a better understanding of the dynamic and geographic characters of the teacher labor market, including factors related to mobility and attrition, in rural and nonrural settings in four REL Central region states.
North Dakota principal Kara Four Bear believes that community, school, and district support–informed through an enhanced Native American Needs Assessment–could be a recipe for enhanced academic success for Native American students. Find out why in this blog post.
REL Central supported the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction in expanding its Native American Needs Assessment survey to include culturally and occupationally relevant questions and to target a wider range of educators. Discover more about the survey's use and results in this blog post.
REL Central collaborates with partnerships to build stakeholder capacity throughout the states in our region. Check out this blog post to learn more about what we do and how we do it.
As part of the North Dakota Innovative Schools Research Partnership, Bismarck Public Schools' newest high school, Legacy High School (LHS), is developing a method for collecting information about how LHS students use their scheduled flex time. Through this collaborative partnership, LHS will have an online time log to begin collecting information from their students about flex time use.
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 report found that, on average, students who were below grade level took less time to complete their competency-based classes than students who were in a class that corresponded to their traditional grade level, among other findings.
This video provides an overview of the current terms associated with teacher movement.
Archived webinar: This webinar was designed to increase educators' understanding of research-based questioning strategies to improve mathematics outcomes in the middle grades.
