Skip Navigation

Home REL Northwest About REL Northwest Montana Literacy Evidence-Based Practices in Montana Districts

Literacy Evidence-Based Practices in Montana Districts

Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest supports four school districts in Montana—Hardin, Laurel, Lockwood, and Whitehall—in improving their use of data and differentiated instruction to increase student literacy achievement. To achieve this goal, the partnership aims to refine districts’ multi-tiered systems of support for reading (MTSS-R), improve strategies for data use when selecting literacy interventions, and guide culturally responsive family literacy aligned with MTSS-R.

Partnership Organization: Hardin School District, Laurel Public School, Lockwood School District, and Whitehall School District, Montana

Current Projects

For the Montana Evidence-Based Literacy Practices partnership, REL Northwest supports four school districts in Montana—Hardin, Laurel, Lockwood, and Whitehall—to improve their use of evidence-based practices related to multi-tiered systems of support in reading (MTSS-R). In this 2023/24 project, REL Northwest delivers training and technical assistance to help the districts self-assess their current MTSS-R practices and create an action plan to continuously improve their literacy data-based decisionmaking.

Completed Projects

Leaders from Montana's Laurel Public Schools seek to accelerate reading outcomes by helping educators more effectively interpret literacy data and respond to trends. REL Northwest is supporting Laurel to increase the capacity and knowledge of educators to use data – including screening, progress monitoring, and formative and summative assessments – to enhance their instruction and ensure appropriate interventions are selected to improve student outcomes.

Product Type: Resource | Publication Date: April 2024
These REL Northwest facilitation materials build the capacity of literacy leaders to use data-based decisionmaking and improve implementation of evidence-based practices for a multi-tiered system of support in reading.
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: April 02, 2024
Building from Session 3, REL Northwest will meet with Montana school district—Lockwood—to work toward increasing the use of evidence-based practices in each district’s multi-tiered systems of support in reading. REL Northwest will guide teams in reviewing...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: April 02, 2024
REL Northwest will meet with three Montana school districts—Hardin, Lockwood, and Whitehall—to work toward increasing the use of evidence-based practices in each district’s multi-tiered systems of support in reading. In this session, REL Northwest will...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: March 27, 2024
Building from Session 3, REL Northwest will meet with Whitehall School District to work toward increasing the use of evidence-based practices in the district’s multi-tiered systems of support in reading. In this session, REL Northwest will guide participants...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: March 26, 2024
Building from Session 3, REL Northwest will meet with Montana school district—Hardin—to work toward increasing the use of evidence-based practices in the district’s multi-tiered systems of support in reading. REL Northwest will guide teams in reviewing...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: January 08, 2024
Building from Session 2 of the series, REL Northwest will meet with three Montana school districts—Hardin, Lockwood, and Whitehall—to work toward increasing the use of evidence-based practices in each district’s multi-tiered systems of support in reading...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: December 04, 2023
Building from Session 1 of the series, REL Northwest will meet with Whitehall School District from Montana to continue work toward increasing the use of evidence-based practices in its multi-tiered systems of support in reading (MTSS-R), which guides...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: December 01, 2023
Building from Session 1 of the series, REL Northwest will meet with Montana school districts Lockwood and Hardin to continue work toward increasing the use of evidence-based practices in each district’s multi-tiered systems of support in reading (MTSSR...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: November 03, 2023
In this training and technical support session, REL Northwest will meet with three Montana school districts—Hardin, Lockwood, and Whitehall—to work toward increasing the use of evidence-based practices in each district’s multi-tiered systems of support...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: September 14, 2023
In the fifth session with Montana’s Laurel Public Schools, REL Northwest will guide participants in using Multitiered Systems of Support in Reading (MTSS-R) data to develop an action plan for improving literacy instruction during the 2023/24 school year...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: May 04, 2023
In the fourth session with Montana’s Laurel Public Schools, REL Northwest will guide participants in planning a continuous improvement cycle for their Multitiered Systems of Support in Reading (MTSS-R). By reviewing MTSS-R self-assessments from previous...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: April 13, 2023
At the beginning of Session 3, the Laurel Public Schools team reflected on their responses to the self-assessment regarding their current literacy practices. REL Northwest shared its synthesis of the self-assessments and collaboratively worked with the...
Product Type: Blog | Publication Date: January 12, 2023
Sitting together in a horseshoe-shaped table configuration, district leaders and educators from Montana’s Laurel Public Schools recently collaborated with REL Northwest in two work sessions to review and examine evidence-based practices and data use regarding...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: December 09, 2022
To start the second training session, the Laurel Public Schools team engaged in an activity to help them reflect on the article they were asked to read asynchronously and consider how a shift to collective efficacy could be made in their own practice...
Event Type: In-person Event | Event Date: October 13, 2022
REL Northwest provided an overview of the project and outcomes for the work in the first session with Laurel Public Schools. Participants review Montana's definition of a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) and examined the state's MTSS Essential Components...

REL Northwest Logic Model (255 KB)

REL Northwest Logic Model