This guidance document provides State Education Agency and Local Education Agency staff as well as education stakeholders with a set of priority issues to address for school reopening in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This guidance, updated every three months, provides strategies to address the following six topics: (a) academic programming, (b) operations, (c) family and community support, (d) […]
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Teaching Newcomer English Learners: Four Powerful Vocabulary Practices
This video clip provides four evidence-based practices on how to teach English learners in grades K-8 academic vocabulary. Drawing from the IES Practice Guide published in 2014 Teaching Academic Content and Literacy in Elementary and Middle School, the REL Northwest has developed a short video clip demonstrating how these practices can be carried out in the classroom. The four practices […]
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”]