NYCDOE Forum on Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice
This day-long conference brought together researchers and educators to strengthen research partnerships in New York City. » More info
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
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
Latest from the REL Northeast & Islands Blog
Supporting Dual Language Learners in the PreK Classroom
Bilingualism carries a number of advantages to children—including social, linguistic, cognitive, and cultural benefits. Learn about strategies to help young dual language learners succeed.
Ask A REL Answers Your Important Research Questions
Learn how one district leader, tasked with exploring the benefits and drawbacks of later school start times, used the REL Northeast & Islands Ask A REL service to inform her district’s decision.
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.
Featured Video
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
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.
Featured Infographic
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).