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Home REL Northwest About REL Northwest Portland High School Graduation
Portland High School Graduation
Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest supports Portland Public Schools in evaluating the implementation of its 2022–2026 High School Success Plan to improve graduation and completion rates for students from historically underserved communities. To achieve this goal, the REL and district partners develop instruments and processes for collecting data to assess how High School Success Plan activities are implemented and to improve associated educator resources and support.
Partnership organization: Portland Public Schools
Completed Projects
REL Northwest supported Portland Public Schools partners in developing an evaluation plan to help the district use data to monitor the implementation of strategies in its High School Success Plan. The ongoing evaluation plan will enable the district to adjust resources and supports for schools with the goal of improving high school graduation rates for Black and Alaska Native students.
For the Portland High School Graduation partnership, REL Northwest supported Portland Public Schools’ implementation of its High School Success Plan to increase high school graduation rates in two areas: equitable grading and work-based learning. In the first phase of this 2023/24 and 2024/25 project, REL Northwest provided technical support as the district created structures to collect and analyze data on equitable grading and work-based learning practices. In the second phase, REL Northwest provided technical support as the district conducts pilot testing and refinement of new standards-based grading practices.
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
June 20, 2024
Partners from Portland Public Schools (PPS) will review the pilot testing plan and finalize decisions to begin implementing a standards-based grading system pilot in the 2024/25 school year. Then, they will review and finalize the project’s draft...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
May 31, 2024
Partners from Portland Public Schools (PPS) will create pilot methods to collect, analyze, and report data for their equitable grading practices. Next, they will develop a communications plan that will support the goals of the pilot implementation...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
May 09, 2024
Partners from Portland Public Schools (PPS) will review pilot testing initiatives including data collection and recruitment methods. This series supports PPS in measuring the district’s equitable grading practices for students.
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
April 11, 2024
In the ninth session with Portland Public Schools (PPS), REL Northwest will continue supporting PPS in measuring the district’s equitable grading practices for students. REL Northwest will provide an overview of the pilot testing process and of potential...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
March 14, 2024
In the eighth session with Portland Public Schools (PPS), REL Northwest will continue supporting PPS in measuring the district’s equitable grading practices for students. REL Northwest will facilitate a discussion on considerations for reporting methods...
Product Type: Blog | Publication Date:
January 29, 2024
How does REL Northwest work make a difference for kids? In our nine-part blog series, you’ll learn the different ways we serve students, educators, and policymakers across the Pacific Northwest. We start in Portland, Oregon, where REL Northwest is partnering...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
November 09, 2023
In the seventh session with Portland Public Schools (PPS), REL Northwest will continue supporting PPS in measuring the district’s equitable grading practices for students. Using data collected in a previous focus group, REL Northwest will guide PPS leaders...
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October 12, 2023
In the sixth session with Portland Public Schools (PPS), REL Northwest will continue supporting PPS in measuring the district’s work-based learning opportunities for students. Using data collected through a survey that was previously administered to Career...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
September 14, 2023
This is the fifth working session to refine Portland Public Schools’ (PPS) equitable grading practices framework as part of the Portland High School Graduation Partnership. Building from the work-based learning (WBL) survey and focus group protocols developed...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
August 17, 2023
This is the fourth working session to refine Portland Public Schools’ (PPS) equitable grading practices framework as part of the Portland High School Graduation Partnership. REL Northwest will give the larger PPS team an opportunity to review and provide...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
June 06, 2023
This is the third working session to refine Portland Public Schools’ (PPS) equitable grading practices framework as part of the Portland High School Graduation Partnership. REL Northwest will work with PPS partners to develop an evidence-based work-based...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
May 16, 2023
The second session with Portland Public Schools (PPS) will focus on refining the equitable grading practices survey and interview protocol items co-developed after the first session by a working group composed of REL Northwest staff and a small group...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
April 18, 2023
The first working session focused on refining Portland Public Schools’ (PPS) existing evidence-based equitable grading practices framework as part of the Portland High School Graduation Partnership. The framework will guide the development of instruments...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
December 12, 2022
Participants focused on revising the evaluation matrix, determining an evaluation design, developing an evaluation plan, and establishing monitoring routines. REL Northwest provided a brief overview of evaluation design options, highlighted the types...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
November 14, 2022
REL Northwest assisted partners in reaching a consensus on a final working version of the evaluation documents. REL Northwest then used the Data Quality module from the Program Evaluation Toolkit (Stewart et al., 2021) to facilitate a discussion of data...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
November 04, 2022
REL Northwest started by discussing feedback from the Portland Public Schools partners on the updated logic model in the third working session of the project. REL Northwest used guidance from the Program Evaluation Toolkit (Stewart et al., 2021) to provide...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
October 14, 2022
Partners in the Portland High School Graduation Partnership revised the draft logic model, making sense of lessons learned from the 2017–2021 High School Strategic plan and narrowing the focus of the Portland Public Schools' implementation evaluation...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
September 26, 2022
Participants from the Portland High School Graduation Partnership focused on developing a draft logic model for Portland Public Schools’ 2022–2026 High School Strategic (HSS) Plan. REL Northwest began the session by facilitating introductions of project...
REL Northwest Logic Model (File pending)
