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Training

This workshop introduces teachers of the youngest students to Education Northwest’s 6+1 Trait Writing Model of Instruction & Assessment using classic literature children know and love.

Education Northwest’s 6+1 Trait® Writing Model of Instruction & Assessment provides a common language teachers and students can use to communicate about the characteristics of quality writing and establishes a clear vision of what good writing looks like.

This workshop helps middle and high school teachers integrate writing across the content areas in meaningful, effective ways.

This workshop introduces teaching strategies to help students identify quality in writing, manage their own writing process, practice effective revision and editing skills, and become confident writers.

Education Northwest's 6+1 Trait® Writing Model of Instruction & Assessment provides a common language teachers and students can use to communicate about the characteristics of quality writing and establishes a clear vision of what good writing looks like.

This advanced training of trainers is designed for literacy coaches, teacher leaders, administrators, and curriculum coordinators wishing to conduct their own in-district trait-based workshops.

Take action now! It’s time to start preparing for the implementation of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM). With common assessments set to roll out in the 2014–2015 school year, districts can ease the coming transition by beginning the implementation process now.

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 in strategies to actively engage students (especially those who are typically disengaged) by tapping into their family, community, and youth culture.

Education Northwest offers professional development in the DMI curriculum that helps teachers examine the major ideas of K-6 mathematics and learn how children develop those ideas.

Education Northwest offers training in the use of OPTIC, an observation tool designed to assist school principals or others in assessing the degree of technology integration occurring in classrooms and schools.

Education Northwest offers professional development that builds teachers’ pedagogical and content knowledge focusing on number sense and algebraic reasoning.

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.

Education Northwest offers professional development that helps teachers incorporate research-based instructional strategies for ELL students into mathematics instruction.

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.

Education Northwest offers professional development that helps administrators recognize and support standards-based mathematics instruction.

Education Northwest offers professional development in lesson study that helps teams of teachers collaboratively build pedagogical and content knowledge by planning, teaching, observing, and refining lessons.

This service provides a process for K-12 educational leaders and school-based teams to include students in continuous school improvement. It involves use of one or more of four Listening to Student Voices tools.

The National Mentoring Center (NMC) 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.

Professional Learning Teams (PLTs) are the foundation for making your entire school a professional learning community dedicated to improving student academic performance.

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.

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.

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.

This training instructs teachers on how to use the 6+1 Trait® Writing Model to analyze and score student papers.

Implementing high-quality language instruction programs to improve the education of English language learners (ELLs) is a national priority emphasized in the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The SIOP model was developed to help ELLs acquire grade-level content knowledge while increasing their English proficiency.

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.

Education Northwest offers professional development for secondary mathematics teachers and administrators addressing school- or district-specific needs through a combination of workshops, coaching, and/or facilitated learning teams.

Education Northwest offers professional development in the implementation of Teaching by Design in Elementary Mathematics, a series of study guides that help elementary teachers create and share knowledge for teaching mathematics.

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.

Education Northwest offers professional development conducted in learning communities using video of teachers’ own classrooms to launch professional discussions about student interactions, questions, and responses to instruction.

Assessment

This workshop introduces teachers of the youngest students to Education Northwest’s 6+1 Trait Writing Model of Instruction & Assessment using classic literature children know and love.

Education Northwest’s 6+1 Trait® Writing Model of Instruction & Assessment provides a common language teachers and students can use to communicate about the characteristics of quality writing and establishes a clear vision of what good writing looks like.

This workshop helps middle and high school teachers integrate writing across the content areas in meaningful, effective ways.

This workshop introduces teaching strategies to help students identify quality in writing, manage their own writing process, practice effective revision and editing skills, and become confident writers.

Education Northwest's 6+1 Trait® Writing Model of Instruction & Assessment provides a common language teachers and students can use to communicate about the characteristics of quality writing and establishes a clear vision of what good writing looks like.

Education Northwest’s 6+1 Trait® Writing Model of Instruction & Assessment provides a common language teachers and students can use to communicate about the characteristics of quality writing and establishes a clear vision of what good writing looks like.

This advanced training of trainers is designed for literacy coaches, teacher leaders, administrators, and curriculum coordinators wishing to conduct their own in-district trait-based workshops.

Have the professional staff of Education Northwest assess your students' writing using the 6+1 Trait model.

This training instructs teachers on how to use the 6+1 Trait® Writing Model to analyze and score student papers.

Technical Assistance

Need help finding research-based answers to questions about education policies, programs, and practices?

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.

Education Northwest provides technical assistance on 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.

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.

Technical assistance in the design of evaluation sections of grant applications

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.

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 (NMC) 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.

State Outreach Coordinators provide a two-way conduit between each of the five states in our service area and REL Northwest.

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 students' writing using the 6+1 Trait model.

We work with your school and district leadership team to help you meet the evolving challenges of systemic change.

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.

REL Northwest provides technical assistance to Northwest states or school districts to build their capacity to carry out technical or analytical work.

Research

Need help finding research-based answers to questions about education policies, programs, and practices?

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.

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 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.

Evaluation

Education Northwest provides technical assistance on 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 in the design of evaluation sections of grant applications

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.

The National Mentoring Center offers customized evaluation services designed to help youth mentoring programs measure the impact of their services and improve their program design.

Education Northwest 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.