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Topics Overview

After School Programs
 
Assessment, Accountability and Data Use
 
Curriculum
 
Diversity
 
Early Childhood Education
 
Education Technology
 
Future of Schooling
 
Instruction
 
Leadership and Organization Development
 
Literacy
 
Mathematics
 
Professional Development
 
Rural Education
 
School Improvement & Reform
 
Science
 
Standards
 
Teacher Preparation & Retention
 

Using research to guide teacher preparation

McREL works to help teacher preparation institutions apply 30 years of research on effective instruction to their programs.

Most notably, in 2002, McREL published the manual, Levers of Change: Transforming Teacher Preparation to provide teacher preparation programs with lessons from nine exemplary institutions of teacher preparation.

McREL has also created several related policy briefs, listed below. We invite you to explore these resources to learn more about how teacher preparation programs can ensure that a well-prepared, capable teacher is in every classroom.