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OCT 30

Promising and Effective Practices for English Learner Students: Implementing Integrated and Designated English Language Development

This in-person event will share promising and effective practices for English learner students as well as the research-based evidence supporting those practices, with a focus on integrated and designated English Language Development.

OCT 12

The Special Education Enrollment Gap in Louisiana: Charter vs. Traditional Schools

This free webinar provides an overview of REL Southwest’s report on the special education enrollment gap between charter and traditional schools in Louisiana, as well as the findings and implications for charter schools both in and out of state.

OCT 10

Early Learning Inventories: Insights from State Colleagues

Did you miss our webinar on early learning inventories? The webinar recordings and presentations are now available online.

Latest from the REL Southwest Blog

Using research to support a system of great schools strategy
A REL Southwest researcher adds her voice and perspective to our Southwest School Improvement Research Partnership blog series on supporting district and school improvement.

Cultivating English learner students’ home language reaps benefits for learning English
We highlight the relationship between English learner students’ initial Spanish proficiency and English language development in this video, the first in a two-part series.

How Louisiana supports new teachers with hands-on residencies
Sara DeLano, executive director of Education Workforce for the Louisiana Department of Education, describes the agency’s efforts to implement a statewide residency program to support new teachers.

Resource roundup: Accelerating improvement through networked improvement communities
Explore how to quickly test, refine, and scale up promising interventions through networked improvement communities. Get started with these curated resources from the REL Program and the Carnegie Foundation.