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The Challenges and Opportunities of Using Diagnostic Data to Improve Equity and Access to Reading
Ohio Department of Education staff and REL Midwest researchers will discuss the challenges and opportunities of using data from Ohio’s Reading Improvement and Monitoring Plans to improve equity and access to reading supports and interventions.
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Strategies to Improve Reading (STIR) Summer Institute—Battle Creek Public Schools
During this multi-day Summer Institute, educators and school leaders will receive training on instructional practice for teaching phonics and phonological awareness, as well as literacy data collection and an implementation monitoring tool.
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Strategies to Improve Reading (STIR) Summer Institute—Lansing School District
During this multi-day Summer Institute, educators and school leaders will receive training on instructional practice for teaching phonics and phonological awareness, as well as literacy data collection and an implementation monitoring tool.
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This three-day Summer Institute will provide ENACT partnership members with an overview of the five computational thinking practices that will be the focus of the partnership’s work: pattern recognition, abstraction, decomposition, debugging, and algorithms...
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December 14, 2021
Over the past five years, REL Midwest helped states and districts use data and research to improve teaching and learning outcomes. We collaborated with members of five research alliances and one networked improvement community to ensure...
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Children’s Knowledge and Skills at Kindergarten Entry in Illinois: Results from the First Statewide Administration of the Kindergarten Individual Development Survey
At least half of states administer or are developing kindergarten entry assessments. In fall 2017 the Illinois State Board of Education began requiring teachers to report data on every child's skills at kindergarten entry using the Kindergarten Individual...
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