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Home REL Northeast & Islands About REL Northeast & Islands Maine Partnership to Support Innovative and Equitable Educational Opportunities
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted and exacerbated systemic inequities and challenges related to ensuring equitable learning opportunities for all Maine learners and particularly for rural students, students with individualized education plans, and economically underserved students. This partnership will address the need to understand original and inventive approaches to persisting problems of practice to help ensure that students in these groups, and all students, have access to rich and rigorous learning opportunities to improve student absenteeism, engagement, and social-emotional learning.
The Maine Department of Education (MDOE) Commissioner’s Office, through the Rethinking Responsive Education Ventures (RREV) grant, is providing professional development training and funding to support innovative remote learning solutions that have potential to improve learner outcomes. In this partnership, REL Northeast & Islands will collaborate with MDOE and other partners, including students, to build district capacity to use research and data to improve innovations developed through the RREV grant and other sources, assess learner outcomes, and develop promising practices for sustaining and scaling up the innovations. REL Northeast & Islands will facilitate a training series with district innovation teams to develop and implement a process for examining fidelity of implementation of their remote learning innovations, create a fact sheet summarizing the literature on the innovation areas such as outdoor education and online learning, and produce a co-authored blog series.
Partner Organizations: Maine Department of Education, Maine Curriculum Leaders Association, State Board of Education, Maine Indian Education, Eastern Maine Community College, University of Maine, and six school districts
No completed projects at this time.
REL Northeast & Islands Logic Model (237 KB)