Using Data and Evidence to Strengthen Professional Learning Communities Around Math Instruction

Join REL West and rural Grand County School District staff for a free, 60-minute webinar on using evidence to strengthen professional learning communities (PLCs) around math instruction. This webinar will provide support to educators in their use of data...
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Stabilizing Subgroup Proficiency Results to Improve the Identification of Low-Performing Schools

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires states to identify schools with low-performing student subgroups for Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI) or Additional Targeted Support and Improvement (ATSI). Random differences between students’ true...
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The Louisiana Believe and Prepare Educator Preparation Reform: Findings from the Pilot and Early Implementation Years

This REL Southwest study examined the extent to which the Louisiana Believe and Prepare Educator Preparation Reform contributed to expected improvement in outcomes for early career teachers.
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Encouraging Families to Visit a Literacy Website: A Randomized Study of the Impact of Email and Text Message Communications

This REL Southwest study examined the effectiveness of using brief email and text message communications to increase the number of parent and guardian visits to the Arkansas Reading Initiative for Student Excellence (R.I.S.E.) website.
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Indicators of School Performance in Texas

In this study, the Texas Education Agency partnered with REL Southwest to explore whether information regularly collected by districts and schools could be used to create indicators for monitoring and supporting low-performing schools.
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