White Papers
- Approaches to Build and Maintain High-Quality, Effective Partnerships
This paper explores the challenges and innovative solutions Local Education Agencies (LEA) face and develop in forming meaningful partnerships to support student educational outcomes and high-quality professional learning for educators
Cross-project Summaries
- Data and Partnerships Drive Continuous Improvement in EIR Projects
While educational programs and educators can and often do engage in continuous improvement cycles on their own, partnership with researchers or external evaluators can enhance the continuous improvement process. This cross-project summary focuses on how four EIR-funded project teams used interim evaluation data to adjust their program implementation.
- Micro-credentials To Improve Teacher Skills in Computer Science
This Cross-project Summary shares examples from four EIR projects developing or offering microcredentials in computer science, computational thinking, or STEM to provide teachers with high quality, relevant, accessible, and flexible professional learning experiences to better prepare them to teach in a digital age.
- Teacher-Directed Professional Learning: Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions
This Cross-project Summary shares promising practices and lessons learned from grantees who developed Teacher–Directed Professional Development (TDPD) programs, an alternative to conventional professional development, giving teachers autonomy and control over their own learning and that of their peers.
- Findings from Projects with a Focus on Serving Students With Disabilities
This cross-project summary presents four case studies of completed Investing in Innovation (i3) projects that utilize high-leverage practices for working with students with disabilities. - Flexibility and Innovation Among Projects Serving Rural Students: Innovations Inspired Through COVID-19 Constraints
This Cross-project Summary shares the innovations and adaptations from twelve Education Innovation and Research (EIR) grantees servicing rural students who devised a variety of creative alternative methods, activities, and solutions to continue implementing their projects despite on-line learning during the pandemic.
