Schools white paper: Opportunity for all

whitePaper | August 3, 2020

Action steps and resources to help your team prevent learning loss and meet the social-emotional behavioural (SEB) and academic needs of each student. The goal for this toolkit is to help your team create a flexible, data-driven plan for supporting students’ academic and social-emotional behavior (SEB) needs into the summer and throughout the 2020-21 school year—whether in a remote, onsite, or blended environment.

whitePaper | December 14, 2022

Winter screening data can help identify students who are at risk of not meeting their learning goals. Download this eBook to learn how to use screening data to plan equitable interventions this spring so all students can get back on track.

whitePaper | August 13, 2020

Determining whether a product has the right kind of research to prove effectiveness is often a confusing process. ESSA now requires school districts to purchase intervention programs that have sufficient evidence to demonstrate that they improve student outcomes. Choosing a program with research-based effectiveness increases the likelihood that it will improve student achievement. Understanding ESSA’s tiers of evidence standards and knowing what to look for will help districts make informed choices about an intervention program’s potential effectiveness.

whitePaper | July 29, 2020

An increase in teacher absences and the need to fill more positions than ever before have created a new set of challenges in the world of substitute teacher recruitment and retention. In December of 2019 and January of 2020, the EdWeek Research Center explored these challenges with a nationally representative, online survey of more than 2,000 principals, district leaders, and school board members. Survey results suggest that the challenge is big and getting bigger: Districts are currently able to fill just 54 percent of the approximately 250,000 teacher absences each day, the survey found.

whitePaper | September 16, 2022

Spoken language* underpins literacy development and vocabulary acquisition. It is central to learning across the curriculum, including in maths.

whitePaper | September 21, 2022

Before teachers can leverage the benefits of engagement, they need to know what it is, where it comes from, and why it’s so hard to maintain as students age. Here we review the evidence, present McREL’s definition of student engagement, and provide strategies to assess and improve students’ engagement with academics and the entire school community.