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Download full textWan, Yinmei; Joshi, Megha; Barkowski, Elizabeth; Zacamy, Jenna; Nardi, Chelsy; Lin, Li; Lazarev, Valeriy – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
The Texas Education Agency launched the Grow Your Own (GYO) grant program in 2018 to encourage districts to develop or expand existing high-quality education and training courses for high school students and to support district-employed paraprofessionals (including instructional aides and long-term substitute teachers) to pursue certifications…
Descriptors: High School Students, Paraprofessional School Personnel, School Districts, Enrollment
Hester, Candace; Lazarev, Valeriy; Zacamy, Jenna; Nardi, Chelsey; Feygin, Amy – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest partnered with the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) to examine Arkansas's middle and high school indicators of postsecondary readiness and success, building on an earlier study of these indicators (Hester et al., 2021). Academic indicators include attaining proficiency on state achievement tests,…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Middle School Students, High School Students, Achievement Tests
Hester, Candace; Jaciw, Andrew; Kurki, Anja; Zacamy, Jenna; Pierson, Ashley; Lai, Garrett; Feygin, Amy – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
The Arkansas Department of Education partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest to study the feasibility and effectiveness of using brief email and text message communications to increase the number of parent and guardian visits to the Reading Initiative for Student Excellence (R.I.S.E.) state literacy website. In November 2021…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Electronic Mail, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Wan, Yinmei; Nguyen, Thanh; Lazarev, Valeriy; Zacamy, Jenna; Gerdeman, Dean – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2021
Louisiana's Believe and Prepare pilot program, supported by grants from the Louisiana Department of Education, aimed to prepare teacher candidates or in-service teachers through a residency with a mentor and a competency-based curriculum. To improve teacher preparation and teacher residencies, state and teacher education leaders in Louisiana…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Interns, Pilot Projects
Lazarev, Valeriy; Toby, Megan; Zacamy, Jenna; Lin, Li; Newman, Denis – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2017
Recruiting and retaining effective teachers are serious concerns throughout Oklahoma. The Oklahoma State School Boards Association (2016) reported 500 teacher vacancies at the beginning of the 2015/16 school year, according to a survey of school districts, and 53 percent of respondents said the teacher shortage was worse than in the previous year.…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Rural Schools, Tenure
Lazarev, Valeriy; Newman, Denis; Nguyen, Thanh; Lin, Li; Zacamy, Jenna – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2017
Federal initiatives and other research have led states across the nation to sharpen their focus on teacher evaluation in recent years. In 2009 a seminal report, "The Widget Effect," from The New Teacher Project revealed that in districts using a binary rating system to evaluate teachers, less than 1 percent of teachers received an…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Scoring Rubrics, Feedback (Response), Faculty Development
Hinojosa, Trisha; Rapaport, Amie; Jaciw, Andrew; Zacamy, Jenna – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2016
The number of jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) is growing rapidly and is expected to increase by approximately 1 million in the United States between 2012 and 2022 (Vilorio, 2014). People of many racial/ethnic minorities, however, including Hispanic people, are underrepresented among recipients of STEM degrees and among…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Literature Reviews
Borman, Trisha; Rapaport, Amie; Jaciw, Andrew; LiCalsi, Christina; Zacamy, Jenna – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2016
Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest conducted this literature review to identify malleable factors that can be measured in K-12 settings and that predict students' postsecondary science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) success (defined as enrolling in, persisting in, and completing a postsecondary STEM major or degree), particularly…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Literature Reviews
