Creating and Using Performance Assessments: An Online Course for Practitioners
Visit our free, self-paced, online course that teaches educators how to develop, score, and use high-quality performance assessments within a balanced assessment system.
REL Northeast & Islands: Putting Research into Action
The Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands translates research to practice in partnership with policymakers and practitioners in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Vermont.
The ten Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) work in partnership to conduct applied research and trainings with a mission of supporting a more evidence-based education system. Learn more about the REL Northeast & Islands region.
What's New at REL Northeast & Islands
Supporting Mathematical Problem Solving at Home
This guide helps families and caregivers carry out recommended practices described in the What Works Clearinghouse educator’s practice guide, Improving Mathematical Problem Solving in Grades 4 Through 8.
These FAQs are designed to assist schools and districts with their most pressing needs in response to the coronavirus crisis. They share ideas from districts across the country, as well as resources from local and state education agencies. » More info
Using Data to Promote Culturally Responsive Teaching: Session 2
This webinar, the second in a two-part series, introduced participants to the importance of developing data literacy to promote culturally responsive teaching. » More info
Latest from the REL Northeast & Islands Blog
Rural Schools and Communities Pull Together During COVID-19
Learn how rural communities throughout the REL Northeast & Islands region and beyond are coping with connectivity and access issues that disadvantage rural students.
Early Childhood Education Research Alliance Members Share Strategies in Response to COVID-19 Crisis
Learn how states in the Northeast & Islands region are engaging families and their children from birth to age 5, supporting their ECE workforce, and making plans to reopen ECE centers in the fall.
The number of English learners in the Virgin Islands has almost doubled since 2011. Learn how REL Northeast & Islands has partnered with the Virgin Islands Department of Education to improve academic achievement and ensure equitable access to high-quality instruction for English Learners.
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Learn how REL Northeast & Islands helps educators in the region use research and data to improve learning outcomes for their students.
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Ask a REL
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.
Works in Progress
Learn more about the research projects currently underway.
Featured Publication
Enrollment rates of children in universal prekindergarten programs in Vermont in 2016/17
This study examines enrollment trends from the first year of state-funded, universal prekindergarten implementation in Vermont.
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Instructional Coaching for English Language Arts: Practices and Outcomes (771 KB)
Learn more about how the REL Northeast & Islands searched and reviewed studies to identify instructional coaching programs, components, and practices that are associated with student academic outcomes in reading/English language arts (ELA).