May 20, 2022
Region 17 Comprehensive Center Welcomes New Leadership
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Jun 28, 2022
Community schools represent a place-based strategy in which schools partner with community agencies and allocate resources to provide, according to the Coalition for Community Schools an “integrated focus on academics, health and social services, youth and community development, and community engagement.”
Community schools vary in the programs they offer and the ways they operate, depending on their local context. However, four features—or…
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Jun 22, 2022
As a former principal and teacher, I often struggled balancing my sense of urgency with knowing exactly how to best support students most impacted by the learning challenges associated with poverty. Almost daily, a new program, initiative, or compelling research paper was released promising the solution to address student learning gaps.
I quickly discovered that everything could not be a priority!
To change academic outcomes for students, the…
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Jun 9, 2022
Puerto Rico’s Professional Development Academy for Management, Leadership, and Professionalism
In 2018, the auxiliary secretariat of the Institute of Professional Development and University Relations (IDPRU, its acronym in Spanish) at the Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDE) enlisted the support of the Regional Comprehensive Center (currently the Region 3 Comprehensive Center (R3CC) to create an innovative academy for educational…
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Jun 2, 2022
The NEC develops and disseminates resources to help build states’ capacity to more comprehensively support Native education through collaboration with districts and tribes. Check out what the NEC has been doing the last few months:
Released a new toolkit to support SEAs, LEAs, and Tribal Education Departments (TEDs) when planning, implementing and evaluating learning and programming that will advance education for Native students.
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May 20, 2022
The Region 17 Comprehensive Center is excited to welcome new leaders in two roles. Jennifer Esswein will serve as the center’s new director, and Jacob Williams will serve as the new deputy director.
Read more here.