This brief describes challenges new teachers encounter, specifically highlighting challenges faced by new teachers in rural school districts. Mentoring and induction programs are identified as one strategy for improving new teacher development and retention. However, the authors suggest that rural schools must design and implement mentoring and induction programs that address distinct challenges new teachers will face at their schools. […]
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Study of Emerging Teacher Evaluation Systems
This study provides descriptive information on the design and early implementation of teacher evaluation systems in eight local school districts. This exploratory study is intended to help other districts and states learn from the experiences of these eight districts to inform future research on the effects of teacher evaluation systems on teacher professional practice and student performance. The study sample […]
State Scan of Professional Learning Activities: CSAI Update
This brief from the Center on Standards & Assessment Implementation (CSAI) provides a summary of six states’ standards implementation practices related to providing professional learning activities for educators on new academic standards. States included in the scan are: Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Information provided includes the delivery method, intended audience, and frequency of the professional […]
Potential impacts on learning of COVID-19
This NWEA report uses their MAP test and growth norms to predict the impact of out-of-school learning loss due to COVID-19. The authors found students would return to school having only learned 70% of a prior year’s knowledge in reading and only 50% of a prior year’s mathematics. [pdf-embedder url=”https://region7comprehensivecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2020/05/WhatSummerLearningLoss.pdf”]