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.
Building a Pipeline of Effective Principals: Costs, Resources, Challenges, and Opportunities
This webinar helped policymakers and researchers understand and apply research findings on the principal pipeline, including how to recruit and prepare a diverse pool of principals. » More info
This webinar explored actionable steps states can take to support their early education workforce. » More info
Setting Up for Success: Preparing High School Students for College-level Math
This webinar presented research on efforts to reduce rates of student placement in college remedial mathematics. » More info
This webinar presented research-based language models for dual language learners in pre-kindergarten (preK), with a particular focus on models that incorporate the use of home languages. » More info
Latest from the REL Northeast & Islands Blog
Supporting Districts’ Efforts to Evaluate Professional Development
Two REL Northeast & Islands projects are building the capacity of district leaders to evaluate their own teacher professional development (PD) efforts, whether they decide to hire an external evaluator or conduct PD evaluations internally.
Webinar Highlights Family and Community Engagement in Social and Emotional Learning
Learn about the important role family and community partnerships play in successful school-based social and emotional learning programs.
Partnership Project Supports New Data Coaches in Puerto Rico
We partnered with the Puerto Rico Department of Education to provide training for new data coaches hired to work with school leaders and teachers to help build their capacity to analyze and use their own classroom data to plan lessons and differentiate instruction.
Featured Video
REL Northeast & Islands developed a series of three complementary guides that describe the survey research process educators can use to create, administer, and analyze their own surveys, in order to have data they need to inform policy and pedagogical decisions.
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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
A guide to calculating district expenditure-to-performance ratios using publicly available data
This guide shows states and districts how to use publicly available data about district-level expenditures and student academic performance to create six expenditure-to-performance ratios, a measure that is sometimes used as a proxy for school district efficiency. To learn more, see this recent blog post.
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Identifying English Learners with Disabilities (656 KB)
Learn more about how the REL Northeast & Islands is collaborating with stakeholders to meet the diverse needs of English Learners.
