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 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.
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.
Postsecondary Access and Success for Rural Students was a webinar hosted by the REL Rural Working Group and designed to provide a national audience of rural educators with research-based information on this important topic.
The resources in this bibliography align with the 2010 federal Smaller Learning Communities (SLC) priorities. We have chosen resources that are research-based to ensure that they are reliable and available free online so that they are accessible. We hope that this resource will help you identify successful school reform strategies that result in improved student achievement and readiness for college and careers.
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.
This summary defines and reviews research on the effectiveness of small learning communities, and organizes the practices effective communities use into five domains of best practice. The article outlines a process of continuous program improvement that schools use to move their small learning communities closer to these best practices.
