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 Dr. Janice Garnett, a distinguished senior lecturer on educational leadership at the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences at the University of Nebraska Omaha. The
The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) has a trio of free toolkits to help parents, educators, and administrators support these students.
More than 75% of multilingual learners speak Spanish, and many schools and districts have more than 100 languages represented among their students.
The purpose of these condensed practice guides developed by Nebraska DOE with REL Central is to offer evidence-based, actionable recommendations for high-quality early literacy instruction.
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.
This resource provides tools for K–12 educators, administrators, and mental health treatment providers to better address the learning and behavioral health needs of Indigenous youth in a holistic manner.
A review of the programs in the survey indicated that there were five types of culturally based education programs and four types of programs that were not culturally based.
In Year 2, the R11CC and the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) delivered a virtual learning community series titled An Equity-Focused Approach to TSI/ATSI School Improvement. Throughout the 2020–21 school year, interactive, content-focused sessions delved into topics such as understanding, collecting, and organizing data; interpreting student learning data; foundations of data equity; using the Every
This brief defines the variables a state or district leadership team might consider as they determine if they are “ready” to invest in the scaling‐up of an innovation in education.