Nebraska

Impact Story: Nebraska Builds Partnership to Strengthen School Improvement Processes & Student Outcomes

Like many state education agencies, the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) recognized it needed more structure to parts of its school improvement approach. NDE leaders wanted to consider the work through an equity-focused lens, ensuring supports were effective for multilingual students, and create a process that would be replicable, scalable, and sustainable across the state.

2024-10-09T17:51:17+00:00October 9th, 2024|Blog, Nebraska|

10 Key Elements for an Academic Standards Revision Process

As part of a standards revision project for the state of Nebraska, the Region 11 Comprehensive Center in partnership with the American Institutes of Research, conducted a scan of publicly available state information and existing research on revision processes. From that, we’ve created this guide sharing 10 key elements states should consider when seeking to

2023-10-03T02:30:26+00:00October 2nd, 2023|Nebraska, Resources|

A Snapshot of Accelerated Learning Efforts in Region 11 States

By Erin A. Chaparro, Haley E. Johnson, Dylan Kriescher, and Brad Rentz Most educators are aware of the steep decline in student performance levels due to the pandemic. They have either observed the skill deficits in their schools or read the most recent results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) report, which details declines in

2023-08-28T16:26:59+00:00August 28th, 2023|Blog|

Voices From the Region: An Interview with Dr. Janice Garnett

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

2023-05-24T14:30:23+00:00May 22nd, 2023|Blog, Nebraska|