Rural CoP Resources and Recommendations

The Rural Education CoP focuses on topics related to rural education such as access to AP, STEM, college and career readiness programs and computer science, rural early college networks, unique issues related to rural education and sharing resources and lessons learned to achieve outcomes that support all rural learners. Here, you’ll find talks from SME speakers and other resources from this CoP to help develop your understanding of rural education!

Webinars

• Lessons Learned from Rural Communities
  Come hear what EIR grantees have learned as they’ve worked alongside you or educators in schools like yours across the U.S. Hear perspectives that will help you grow and learn on your path as an educator. Leave ready to improve teaching and learning back home in your school or district.
  Presenters: Brittany Seybert and Bethany Fillers, Rural Life, Niswonger Foundation; Angie Jerabek, The BARR Center; Jenn Dubey, Rural School Leadership Academy, Teach For America

• Innovations in Rural Education: EIR Grants at Work in a Community Near You
  Come learn about innovations at work in a rural school near you or like you! Get key take-home strategies to apply right away in your school or classroom.
  Presenters: Claudia Miner, Waterford UPSTART; Lynn Cominsky, EdEON Learn by Making; Cydni Burton, Lone Star STEM

Other Resources

• Nonacademic Interventions for Postsecondary Enrollment and Success with Rural and High-Poverty Populations: A Systematic Evidence Review
  This review sought to identify nonacademic interventions with evidence of positive effects on postsecondary enrollment, academic performance, persistence, and completion, particularly with rural and high-poverty populations.
• Understanding the College Persistence of Rural and First-Generation Students
  John Stewart, Professor of Physics at West Virginia University, explores the relationship between attending secondary school in a rural locale, first-generation college student status, and persistence in engineering majors at West Virginia’s state flagship university.