This advanced training requires trait experience and prepares people to conduct their own in-district trait-based workshops. Participants must have previous training in the 6+1 Trait® Writing model.
Successful small learning communities, career academies, and small schools share a common set of practices. This training helps district and school leadership teams redesign high schools so that all parts of the system—structures, curriculum, instruction, assessments, professional development—are aligned with preparing students for postsecondary success.
Connections: School to Work is a service of the Education, Career & Community Program at Education Northwest. We provide a wide range of training, technical assistance, professional development, curriculum development and consultation on youth development, community-based learning and school-to-work transitions.
Training and technical assistance in strategies for creating effective school, family, and community partnerships. Please contact us if you'd like to know more.
Technical assistance providing design and implementation of measurement strategies and assessment tools for research and evaluation; data collection protocols and processes; data analysis and interpretation for new or existing data; graphic presentation and reporting of findings.
Technical assistance with the design and implementation of database systems, including online access to data entry and reporting functions, database management, and data conversion services.
Technical assistance providing evaluation design, implementation, and reporting of data for local, state, and federal initiatives to strengthen instruction and support for ELLs.
Education Northwest offers technical assistance for a school or district that provides a comprehensive examination of the experience of English language learners informed by current professional literature and research.
Evaluation services provide states, districts, and schools with key information about the implementation of their initiative, as well as the student outcomes. Education Northwest's Language & Literacy Unit evaluators specialize in the evaluation of reading projects and ELL instruction.
Technical assistance providing evaluation services for programs that connect secondary and postsecondary education, including GEAR UP, Upward Bound, Bridge Programs, and Tech Prep.
Education Northwest offers technical assistance as well as evaluation services to determine effects and impact of program services to young children and families.
Technical assistance providing evaluation design, implementation, and reporting of data for local, state, and federal reading initiatives, including Reading First, Early Reading First, and Reading Tutoring.
Education Northwest provides technical assistance and collaborates with TAH grant applicants to design proposal evaluation sections for projects that plan to use Education Northwest as their external evaluator.
Education Northwest offers services based on our extensive experience in research and evaluation design, statistical analysis, and the interpretation and presentation of scientific data and findings.
Training and technical assistance in assessment, social and emotional development, and specific curricular areas such as literacy and numeracy development.
Education Northwest offers professional development that helps teachers incorporate research-tested practices to support struggling adolescent learners into instruction, assessment, professional development, and school structures at the middle and high school level.
The National Mentoring Center provides in-depth training and technical assistance to large-scale federal, state, and regional mentoring initiatives. These services are geared towards serving cohorts of funded mentoring sites or the large-scale implementation of mentoring projects by government and private nonprofit funding sources.
Technical assistance on the development of instruments to measure effects of professional development programs and partnership analysis at the project, teacher, and student levels.
Interdisciplinary teaching and learning teams are the basic building blocks of effective learning communities. This training positions interdisciplinary teams of teachers to provide continuity of instruction across grade levels and classrooms for increased student achievement.
Education Northwest offers technical assistance that provides facilitation leadership for a district committee in the development of selection criteria and an implementation plan for the instructional materials.
Education Northwest offers technical assistance for a school or district that provides a comprehensive review of mathematics teaching and learning informed by current professional literature and research.
The National Mentoring Center at Education Northwest provides comprehensive consultation services for new and existing youth mentoring programs. We can help your mentoring program design effective, research-based services.
The National Mentoring Center can design and deliver customized training for mentoring program staff and volunteer mentors. Our trainings, and other forms of program assistance, combine the skills and expertise of NMC staff teams with the wide-ranging talents of our national network of expert trainers.
The National Mentoring Center can assist mentoring programs of all types in finding, understanding, and applying the research and best practices that support effective programs. Our staff has access to a wealth of mentoring literature, research related to mentoring and youth development, and a wide variety of educational and youth-work resources. We can conduct customized research syntheses and literature reviews for programs of all types.
Technical assistance in the development of programs in science to improve teacher content knowledge and implementation of standards-based science instruction.
Technical assistance on the development and implementation of formative and summative evaluations of a wide range of programs with an emphasis on teacher professional development and classroom impact studies.
Technical assistance in the design and implementation of research studies or program evaluation for science, mathematics, engineering, technology, or environmental education.
Our professional research and evaluation staff have a great deal of experience reviewing programs and projects, writing and evaluating grant proposals, and planning and implementing new models for educational and program improvement. We will be happy to review your developing grant applications and provide detailed feedback about the structure and substance of your proposal.
Typical patterns of resource use are often inconsistent with schools’ improvement priorities, especially closing the achievement gap. In this training, school leadership teams examine the resource allocation strategies of schools that created rigorous instructional programs with improved outcomes for all students.
Would you like to see more interdisciplinary collaboration, but schedules, groupings, and standards seem to limit you? In this training, your leadership team collaboratively defines a standards-based program that can overcome obstacles to interdisciplinary teaching and learning.
Our experienced team helps schools and districts craft a winning strategy for school improvement. We can help you assess high-need areas to target, identify research-based strategies to address them, integrate individual programs into a systemic strategy for improvement, and plan for sustainability.
Schools needing to improve rapidly, including those facing NCLB corrective action or restructuring, benefit from an objective and comprehensive review as a first step to turnaround.
Have the professional staff of Education Northwest assess your student's writing using the 6+1 Trait writing model. With over a decade of analytical and holistic scoring experience, you can be assured that the Education Northwest writing assessors will provide writing assessment scores you can depend on for providing valuable direct student assistance.
Technical assistance for businesses to assess job application essays using rubrics provided by either the client or Education Northwest. Secure transfer process of applications may be arranged electronically.
Technical assistance to Title I schools and districts designated in need of improvement, working in conjunction with state departments of education and local education agencies.
Education Northwest offers professional development for elementary, middle and high school mathematics coaches and leaders that strengthens mathematical content knowledge and enhances skill and knowledge for providing coaching support.
Technical assistance customized to develop school or district technology plans based upon standards and current research and related to the broader educational context of curriculum, management systems, people, and facilities.
Technical assistance in reviewing practices and procedures on the uses of technology throughout a school or district based upon current professional standards and research.
Technical assistance to help school staffs identify the aspects of school climate that will support change and where to focus attention to foster successful improvement initiatives.
Technical assistance in assessing how well a school’s services match the needs of new and diverse students, and an accompanying school planning process.
For more than a decade, Education Northwest has been a national provider of training and technical assistance to tutoring and out-of-school time programs. Our trainings combine the skills and expertise of staff teams with the wide-ranging talents of our national network of expert trainers. We design and deliver training for program staff and volunteers. Customized training formats can include:
Education Northwest offers professional development that builds teachers’ pedagogical and content knowledge focusing on number sense and algebraic reasoning.
Schools needing to improve rapidly, including those facing NCLB corrective action or restructuring, benefit from an objective and comprehensive review as a first step to turnaround.
For more than a decade, Education Northwest has been a national provider of training and technical assistance to tutoring and out-of-school time programs. Our trainings combine the skills and expertise of staff teams with the wide-ranging talents of our national network of expert trainers. We design and deliver training for program staff and volunteers. Customized training formats can include:
