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From Structure to Instruction: 2012 Institute on High School Design and Improvement

Designed by practitioners for practitioners, this institute provides teachers, administrators, and district staff with state-of-the-art tools and strategies that have successfully transformed high school practice.

6+1 Trait® Writing Institute for Trait Presenters

This advanced institute is for trait-experienced literacy coaches, teacher leaders, administrators, and curriculum coordinators wishing to conduct their own in-district, 6+1 Trait trainings. Participants should have already taken a 6+1 Trait Writing workshop and have used the 6+1 Trait Writing model in the classroom.

What Does the Research Say about Acceleration Options for Gifted Students?

The Ask A REL Reference Desk provides education stakeholders from the Northwest region with prompt, authoritative, and customized answers to research and policy questions. On a regular basis, we share our responses to questions from the field.

A Closer Look at the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics

An introductory module that will assist teachers, administrators, and leaders of kindergarten through high school in building an understanding of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics.

6+1 Trait® Writing Introduction to the Traits Institute for Grades 6–12

Education Northwest’s 6+1 Trait Writing Model of Instruction & Assessment is a powerful framework designed to help teachers and students use a common language to learn about the characteristics of good writing and to create a common vision of what that quality writing looks like.

What Research and Resources Are Available for Teachers of Multigrade or Combination Classrooms?

How Small Schools Grew Up and Got Serious (But Didn’t Lose Their Spunk)

This article in the December 2010/January 2011 issue of Kappan Magazine describes how “leaders with a powerful vision of instruction were able to move ahead swiftly on reforms, generating the needed support in a variety of ways.”

Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Vocabulary and Comprehension Practices—Workshop Resources

Resources from a “Bridge Event” designed to connect researchers, policymakers, and practitioners—held on May 31, 2011, in Anchorage, Alaska

Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Vocabulary and Comprehension Practices

In collaboration with the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, this Bridge Event focused on the research-based practice guide Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices, published by the Institute of Education Sciences.

Project CRISS Reading Program and Grade 9 Reading Achievement in Rural High Schools

This study tested the effectiveness of Project CRISS (Creating Independence through Student-owned Strategies), a professional development intervention for high school teachers of core subjects.