We strive to help all educators be the best they can be—which is why we offer a number of resources that help teachers and leaders improve their skills and gain insight into best practices in the field. We also offer an online collection of select materials for district professional development (PD) leaders, instructional coaches, principals, and department leaders to help strengthen the delivery of in-house PD sessions.
Solutions Portal
The McREL Solutions Portal is an online library of research-based PD resources developed by our experts that you can use to plan and deliver PD in your own school or district, strengthening the impact of your workshops, staff meetings, and coaching conversations. Portal materials address a wide scope of subjects, from instructional strategies and leadership development to educational technology, formative assessment, and math and science education.
SOLUTIONS PORTAL
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Changing Schools
Our award-winning, biannual magazine explores the topics that matter most to educators with in-depth articles on improving practice, research reviews, interviews with experts, and success stories. Read our latest issue online, or browse past issues and articles.
CHANGING SCHOOLS
Compendium of Standards
Our online Compendium synthesizes significant standards, benchmark documents, and lesson plans across every subject area, including Career Technical Education topics and Life Skills. Presented on its own website in a handy, searchable format, this valuable resource for schools, districts, and states includes the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), links from CCSS to our Compendium language arts and math benchmarks, and early childhood standards (birth to 36 months).
COMPENDIUM OF STANDARDS
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McREL Blog
Our expert researchers, evaluators, and veteran educators synthesize information gleaned from our research and blend it with best practices gathered from schools and districts around the world to bring you insightful and practical ideas that support changing the odds of success for you and your students. By aligning practice with research, we mix professional wisdom with real world experience to bring you unexpectedly insightful and uncommonly practical ideas that offer ways to build student resiliency, close achievement gaps, implement retention strategies, prioritize improvement initiatives, build staff motivation, and interpret data and understand its impact.