REL Northwest will host a free webinar—particularly geared toward educators serving rural schools—on strategies contained in the Institute of Education Sciences practice guide Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making.
Data-driven decision making has become a national education priority. But do educators have the capacity to understand the data and use them appropriately to make instructional improvements? What can schools and colleges of education do to better prepare future teachers and administrators to use data effectively?
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.
This report—published in late December 2010— analyzes the characteristics, qualifications, roles, and functions of school support team members in four Northwest Region states in 2009/10.
This study, published December 2010, provides statistics on the preparation and support of public school teachers in Northwest Region states and nationally.
