Resources from a Bridge Event based on the Institute of Education Sciences’ practice guide, Helping Students Navigate the Path to College: What High Schools Can Do—held on October 16, 2011, in Portland, Oregon.
This conference is designed for school administrators, counselors, teachers, athletic directors and coaches, and other professionals responsible for school safety.
This free REL Northwest forum explored key findings from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) practice guide, Helping Students Navigate the Path to College: What High Schools Can Do.
This article looks at school leaders that have been successful in shifting professional support toward effective teaching through embedded learning opportunities for teachers that promote focused collaboration around student achievement.
This article profiles two high schools that have met the challenge to prepare students for postsecondary options. The schools require all students to take rigorous mathematics and science courses and provide them with the support they need to succeed.
Major demographic shifts in classrooms today have led to increasing numbers of culturally, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse students in our schools. While recent reports indicate that some progress is being made in closing the gaps, significant inequities continue to exist.
Training in strategies to actively engage students (especially those who are typically disengaged) by tapping into their family, community, and youth culture.
Equity practices lie at the core of good teaching and therefore will benefit all students, not only those traditionally filtered out of the science and mathematics pipeline.