How is Action Research a classroom benefit?
• Professionalize teaching
• Personalize learning
• Empower teachers
• Enhance motivation and effectiveness of school faculty
1. KVEC Action Research Builds the Reflective Practitioner
When individual teachers make a personal commitment to systematically collect data on their work, they are engagin…Read More

REL Central’s has released a toolkit that may be useful if your action research project is focused on a new classroom instructional strategy: Instructional Improvement Cycle: A Teacher’s Toolkit for Collecting and Analyzing Data on Instructional Strategies. The toolkit was developed with York Public Schools in Nebraska to support the school…Read More

It was wonderful to work with KVEC educators at last Friday’s Action Research workshop. Dr. Kenneth Anderson, who joined us for the workshop and shared some ideas from his action research classes at Howard University, will likely subscribe to this Holler soon but in the meantime, he can be reached at [email protected]

I’ll post the link to materials from the ARI/REL Appalachia Action Research event once they are available online. In the meantime, check out other upcoming events by REL:
1) Teaching academic content and literacy to English learners–July 22 or 23
2) Principal leadership for effective use of PGES data–July 29
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Another student engagement link—An introduction to student engagement:
[bpfb_link url=’http://relappalachia.org/events/what-is-student-engagement-and-how-do-we-measure-it/’ title=’What Is Student Engagement and How Do We Measure It?’ image=”]”What Is Student Engagement and How Do We Measure It?” is a 1-hour webinar event designed for Kentucky r…Read More