September 2024 | As districts react to teacher shortages by hiring more alternatively certified educators, school leadership can provide practical supports to help these new teachers get acclimated, McREL CEO Bryan Goodwin writes in his latest Research Matters column in the September issue of Educational Leadership magazine.
July 2023 | DENVER—McREL International is pleased to announce that the National Center for Education Research (NCER) has awarded McREL a $4 million research grant to support a 4-year impact study of the Balanced Leadership© professional learning and coaching program. McREL is partnering on the project with the Region 13 Education Service Center in Texas, researchers from Ohio State University, and Gibson Consulting Group.
May 2023 | There is an important distinction between equality and equity in the classroom, Dr. Karen Baptiste, McREL’s senior consultant, explains in the latest issue of EdWeek’s Classroom Q&A column with Larry Ferlazzo. “Equality pushes for everyone to get the same thing, while equity is about giving every student what they need to be successful,” she writes.
April 2024 | In this new McREL two-page publication for the Michigan Assessment Consortium, McREL’s CEO Bryan Goodwin explains how the science of learning can be applied to create authentic assessments that help measure how well students convert new learning into long-term memory.
April 2024 | McREL’s CEO Bryan Goodwin explores whether the STEM job shortage is overhyped in his latest Research Matters column in Educational Leadership magazine. Stemming from anecdotal observations about job placement of recent college graduates,
February 2024 | In the February issue of Educational Leadership magazine, McREL CEO Bryan Goodwin’s Research Matters column explores how the data surrounding social media and student mental health often is used to support wildly different conclusions.
January 2024 | By connecting lessons to students’ lives, teachers can make material more relatable and support deeper learning, write McREL’s director of consulting, Meagan Taylor, and McREL senior consultant, Tonia Gibson.
November 2023 | In a new Edutopia article, McREL Senior Consultant Cheryl Abla shares simple strategies to get students talking about their learning. While it’s not uncommon for teachers to shy away from student-led discussions in middle and high school classes,
November 2023 | A new blog from Knowledge Alliance features South Dakota’s work to support teachers in the implementation of the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings and Standards (OSEUS) in classrooms across the state through a partnership
November 2023 | In his latest Research Matters column in Educational Leadership magazine, McREL’s CEO Bryan Goodwin shares five evidence-based classroom management strategies shown to encourage positive behaviors and address difficult ones.
