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Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2021
This Study Snapshot highlights key findings from a study that explored the pathways through which new teachers between 2015/16 and 2017/18 earned certificates, their certification areas, and their subsequent placement and retention in districts across the state, particularly high-need districts. New York State provides multiple certification…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Placement, Teacher Certification
Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2021
This Study Snapshot highlights key findings from a study that explored attendance supports aimed at reducing chronic absenteeism that Rhode Island's Providence Public School District (PPSD) schools implemented in the 2018/19 school year. The study investigated what attendance supports were most commonly implemented with fidelity in 2018/19 by…
Descriptors: Attendance, Intervention, Public Schools, School Districts
Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2021
Teacher induction and mentoring programs are increasingly promoted as an effective mechanism for improving new teacher quality, new teacher retention, and student outcomes. This Study Snapshot highlights key findings from a larger study that examined teacher survey and staffing data to describe new teachers' participation in a large urban…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Persistence, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Characteristics
Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2021
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has developed state systems of monitoring and support for low-performing schools that include measuring schools on a Turnaround Practices and Indicators (TP&I) rubric focused on four turnaround practice areas. This Study Snapshot highlights key findings from a larger…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Indicators, School Effectiveness, Leadership
Theriault, S. B.; Walston, J.; Li, Y.; Pan, J. – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2020
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, like other state education agencies and school districts, recognizes that the quality of instruction is a key lever to turning around low-performing schools. As part of annual monitoring of state-designated low-performing schools, the department's external monitors observe…
Descriptors: Observation, Scores, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2020
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, like other state education agencies and school districts, recognizes that the quality of instruction is a key lever to turning around low-performing schools. As part of annual monitoring of low-performing schools, the department uses Teachstone's Classroom Assessment Scoring…
Descriptors: Observation, Scores, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
Hanita, M.; Bailey, J.; Khanani, N.; Bocala, C.; Zweig, J.; Bock, G. – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2020
Connecticut is one of many states that implements an induction program for beginning teachers to mitigate high turnover and lower efficacy among early-career teachers. The state's Teacher Education and Mentoring (TEAM) Program requires beginning teachers to complete five instructional modules, have a certain number of contact hours with a mentor,…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Mentors, Program Effectiveness
Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2020
Connecticut is one of 29 states that require beginning teachers to complete an induction program to mitigate high turnover and lower efficacy among early-career teachers. Its two-year Teacher Education and Mentoring (TEAM) Program provides guidance to beginning teachers through several mechanisms, including five instructional modules and ongoing…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Mentors, Program Effectiveness
Lacireno-Paquet, Natalie; Bocala, Candice; Bailey, Jessica – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2016
This study examined the relationship between teachers' perceptions of school professional climate and their satisfaction with the process for evaluating their performance. It used the responses of a nationally representative sample of teachers to examine whether teachers' satisfaction with the evaluation process was associated with two measures of…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Satisfaction, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes
Gerzon, Nancy; Guckenburg, Sarah – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2015
The Culture of Data Use Workshop Toolkit helps school and district teams apply research to practice as they establish and support a culture of data use in their educational setting. The field-tested workshop toolkit guides teams through a set of structured activities to develop an understanding of data-use research in schools and to analyze…
Descriptors: Data, Research Utilization, School Districts, Schools
Grady, Matthew W.; O'Dwyer, Laura M. – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2014
REL Northeast & Islands at Education Development Center, in partnership with the English Language Learners Alliance, has developed a new survey tool--The English Language Learner Program Survey for Principals--to help state education departments collect consistent data on the education of English language learner students. Designed for school…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Surveys, Principals, School Policy
Bocala, Candice; Henry, Susan F.; Mundry, Susan; Morgan, Claire – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2014
The "Practitioner Data Use in Schools: Workshop Toolkit" is designed to help practitioners systematically and accurately use data to inform their teaching practice. The toolkit includes an agenda, slide deck, participant workbook, and facilitator's guide and covers the following topics: developing data literacy, engaging in a cycle of…
Descriptors: Workshops, Teaching Methods, Literacy, Data Analysis
Lacireno-Paquet, Natalie; Morgan, Claire; Mello, Daniel – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2014
Motivated by the need to improve teaching and learning and by federal priorities reflected in requirements for grant programs such as Race to the Top and the Teacher Incentive Fund, many states are developing teacher evaluation systems that include measures of individual teachers' contributions to their students' learning growth. One way to…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Behavioral Objectives, Teacher Effectiveness
Hergert, Leslie F.; Gleason, Sonia Caus; Urbano, Carole – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2009
This document presents a summary of the report, "How Eight State Education Agencies in the Northeast and Islands Region Identify and Support Low-Performing Schools and Districts." This larger report describes and analyzes how eight state education agencies in the Northeast and Islands Region (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Focus Groups, State Departments of Education, Interviews
Bates, Lauren; Breslow, Nicole; Hupert, Naomi – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2009
This document represents a summary of the report, "Five States' Efforts to Improve Adolescent Literacy." "Five States' Efforts to Improve Adolescent Literacy" describes efforts by five states (Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Rhode Island) to improve adolescent literacy. Highlighting common challenges and lessons,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, State Departments of Education, Literacy, Adolescents