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DEC 15

Grow Your Own Program, From State Education Agency to School District to Student Outcomes

Join us for a free webinar to learn how states and districts develop and implement Grow Your Own programs to diversify their teacher workforce and address local staffing needs.

DEC 7

Webinar archive: Supporting Student Success Through Positive Approaches to School Discipline

View the recordings and materials from our recent webinar discussing disciplinary actions and the role they can play in educational equity, academic outcomes, and learning and development.

NOV 30

Culturally Responsive Practices to Support American Indian English Learners’ Success

To learn core subjects, students need to understand the academic language and context used to explain the subjects. This infographic highlights promising culturally responsive practices to support English learner students—and particularly American Indian English learners—in their understanding of academic vocabulary and content.

NOV 30

Recognizing Bilingual Knowledge Through Biliteracy Seals

Designed for parents and caregivers, this infographic describes the use of biliteracy seals as a way to recognize and certify students’ fluency in multiple languages. New Mexico’s State Seal of Bilingualism-Biliteracy is featured as an example.

Latest from the REL Southwest Blog

Supporting state education agencies to design and implement Grow Your Own teacher programs
REL Southwest and the Texas Education Agency are working together to help school districts increase their teacher candidate pool and the diversity of their teacher workforce.

Examining CTE data: Insights from nine Texas districts
REL Southwest supported Texas school districts in using data to inform their career and technical education programs’ comprehensive local needs assessments, as required by Perkins V, and to strengthen program design and implementation. This post shares participating districts’ insights and discoveries as they explored their programs’ data.

Resource roundup: Indicators of college and career readiness
We rounded up research and resources on indicators of college and career readiness from across the REL network. Knowing which indicators have strong predictive accuracy can help educators identify students who are off track and may need more support before it is too late.

Partnering with Arkansas to identify indicators that predict postsecondary readiness and success
Our Southwest College and Career Readiness Research Partnership with the Arkansas Department of Education studied the state’s middle school and high school indicators of postsecondary readiness and success. Learn which indicators were strong predictors and read about related work underway to improve student outcomes and advance educational equity in the state.