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School System Improvement Insights & Resources

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    Switching Gears: Ways to Optimize an Unplanned Shift to Online Teaching

    The sudden pivot to online teaching comes with plenty of challenges, but teachers may be further ahead than they realize because they have already built relationships with their students.

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    Helping Schools Navigate Uncharted Waters

    As schools, districts, and other educational entities identify their needs during this unprecedented time, Education Northwest is here to provide customized services and resources.

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    8 Key Principles of Successful Tutoring Programs

    Quality tutoring programs center equity, uplift student voice, involve families, equip staff and volunteers with essential skills, and use data to evaluate success. Check out these eight research-based principles to make your tutoring program more effective.

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    Adapting Lesson Study for Community College Math Instruction

    We're are collaborating with the CCRC to adapt a pilot project at three community colleges in Oregon to test the usefulness of the lesson study professional development model in higher education.

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    Teaching Math to Struggling Learners

    Math success for students with learning disabilities and struggling learners starts with solid teaching practices combined with necessary, specially designed teaching adjustments.

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    Mathematics Interventions: What Strategies Work for Struggling Students?

    According to the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress, two-thirds of eighth-grade students performed at or below a basic level of proficiency in mathematics.

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    Helping Students With Dyslexia Find Their Reading Motivation

    Teachers can create a rich learning experience for everyone by providing the necessary accommodations for students with dyslexia, while also embracing their unique skills and perspectives.

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    Parent Involvement in Education

    This classic 1989 brief from researchers Kathleen Cotton and Karen Reed Wikelund remains widely cited and circulated more than 20 years after original publication.

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    Monitoring Student Learning in the Classroom

    This classic brief looks at the research on activities pursued by teachers to keep track of student learning for purposes of making instructional decisions and providing student feedback.

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    Classroom Questioning

    This classic brief reviews research on the relationship between teachers' classroom questioning behaviors and a variety of student outcomes, including achievement, retention and participation.

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    Instructional Grouping

    Placing students into small groups can be a powerful approach to stimulate learning. This resource serves educators looking to improve classroom instruction through small-group student learning.

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    Effective Schooling Practices: A Research Synthesis 1995 Update

    This classic research synthesis by Researcher Kathleen Cotton cites classroom, school, and district practices that research has shown to foster positive student achievement, attitudes and social behavior.

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    Alaska Teacher Describes the Power of Educator Networks in Education Week Blog Post

    According to Karen Martin, a teacher and instructional coach in Alaska, the Northwest Rural Innovation and Student Engagement (NW RISE) Network builds connections.

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    How Teachers of Color Can Make a Difference in the Classroom and Beyond

    Hiring more teachers of color benefits all students academically and builds the school community—and it's the right thing to do.

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    A Powerful Change Strategy

    Jacqueline Raphael highlights a set of best practices that emerging networks can follow and makes a case for using an experienced intermediary organization to serve as the network's “backbone.”

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