Impact Story: Relighting the Fires for Standards Implementation in South Dakota
Have you ever wanted to accomplish a task but couldn’t find much guidance on how to successfully achieve it? This was the problem many schools and educators were experiencing in South Dakota. Five years ago, the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings and Standards (OSEUS) were approved by the State Board of Education based on legislation passed in 2007.
Impact Story: Improving School Attendance in a Rural North Dakota Community
When a school district in North Dakota began having hard conversations about its struggling status, a simple, yet crucial, contributor to academic success became abundantly clear: “We’re never going to make academic improvements unless the kids are here to learn,” the Parshall School District elementary school principal recalled.
That conversation laid the groundwork for a districtwide project,
Foster Psychological Safety & Double-Loop Learning to Drive Meaningful Change
By Kirsten Naomi Rogers Chapman and Ben Cronkright
After three months as the school improvement team lead for South Lake High School, Louisa has hit a brick wall. Her team is meeting consistently, collecting and analyzing data on student progress, implementing changes to classroom practice, and generally getting along, but Louisa feels like they’re going in circles—and the data
Voices From the Region: An Interview with Fred Osborn from SD’s Office of Indian Education
Voices from the Region spotlights stakeholders in Region 11 and their work to improve educational opportunities and outcomes. R11CC is privileged to collaborate with and share the insights of Fred Osborn, director of the Office of Indian Education at the South Dakota Department of Tribal Relations. This interview was featured in the R11CC Winter-Spring 2023 newsletter.
Three Key Ingredients for Building Effective School Support Partnerships
One of our primary roles at the Region 11 Comprehensive Center (managed by McREL) is to support statewide education improvement efforts involving partnerships among state departments of education, regional service agencies, local districts, and even individual schools.
Video: North Dakota Schools Embrace a Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycle of Improvement
This video from the Region 11 Comprehensive Center defines improvement science and explains how it is being used to support school success in North Dakota.