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REL Southwest: Putting Research into Action
The Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest translates research to practice in partnership with policymakers and practitioners in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

The 10 Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) work in partnership to conduct applied research and training with a mission of supporting a more evidence-based education system. Learn more about REL Southwest.

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NOV 15

REL Southwest Evidence-Based Research and Resources for English Learners

This interactive session at the La Cosecha Dual Language Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, features current research-based publications and resources for English learner students.

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.

Ask a REL

Ask A REL is a collaborative reference desk service provided by the 10 RELs and functions much in the same way as a technical reference library.

Ask A REL

Works In Progress

Learn more about the research projects currently underway.

Learn more about the research projects currently underway

Featured Research Partnership

Learn more about our Southwest Teacher Preparation and Professional Development Research Partnership in Louisiana.

Learn more about the research projects currently underway

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