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Oregon Department of Education Literacy Initiative Partnership

Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northwest supports the Oregon Department of Education in helping K-5 schools implement evidence-based literacy practices to improve student literacy achievement. To achieve this goal, the partnership uses continuous improvement cycles to increase knowledge, evaluate implementation, and share information about the use of evidence-based literacy practices in local education agencies in Oregon.

Partnership organization: Oregon Department of Education

Current Projects

For the Oregon Department of Education Literacy Initiative Partnership, REL Northwest and Oregon Department of Education collaborate using continuous improvement and dissemination approaches to support Oregon educators’ increased knowledge and use of evidence-based literacy practices. In this 2023/24 project, REL Northwest provides technical support to the Oregon Department of Education as it evaluates and supports the use of evidence-based practices in schools that received Early Literacy Success School District Grants.
In this 2024/25 project, REL Northwest provides training and technical support to the Oregon Department of Education to build internal capacity and formalize processes to collect, analyze, and use qualitative data to inform decisionmaking. The work is part of the broader Oregon Department of Education Literacy Initiative Partnership.

Completed Projects

REL Northwest supported the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) by ensuring its new state literacy framework (released May 31, 2023) included the most recent evidence on literacy instruction and insights from literacy leaders. Additionally, per ODE’s request, REL Northwest ensured the evidence and insights were easy to comprehend for stakeholders to help drive improved literacy instruction and increased student reading achievement across the state.

Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: August 26, 2024
Partners from the Oregon Department of Education will revise questions for the evaluation of the state literacy grant program after discussing how data collection and legislative requirements have shaped the prioritized questions. For this series, REL...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: August 22, 2024
Partners from the Oregon Department of Education will review and refine a working logic model for state literacy grants after engaging in a storytelling excercise to identify how the grant program might achieve expected outcomes. For this series,...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: April 17, 2024
REL Northwest will continue to work with the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) to identify and meet goals of the Early Literacy Success School District Grant program. In this session, REL Northwest will present best pracitces for analysis, interpretation...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: March 27, 2024
REL Northwest will continue to work with the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) to identify and meet goals of the Early Literacy Success School District Grant program. In this session, REL Northwest will review survey best practices and support district...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: March 27, 2024
REL Northwest will continue to work with the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) to identify and meet goals of the Early Literacy Success School District Grant program. In this session, REL Northwest will review survey best practices and support district...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: February 28, 2024
Building from the logic model developed in the first technical support session, REL Northwest will continue to work with the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) to identify and meet goals of the Early Literacy Success School District Grant program. In...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: February 14, 2024
Building from the logic model developed in the first technical support session, REL Northwest will continue to work with the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) to identify and meet goals of the Early Literacy Success School District Grant program. In...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: February 14, 2024
Building from the logic model developed in the first technical support session, REL Northwest will continue to work with the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) to identify and meet goals of the Early Literacy Success School District Grant program. In...
Product Type: Blog | Publication Date: February 07, 2024
In this next addition to REL Northwest’s blog series highlighting our partnerships and how our work makes an impact, we look to the Oregon Department of Education (ODE)’s Literacy Framework partnership. In 2021, ODE determined that updating the 2009 Literacy...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: December 06, 2023
Building from the logic model developed in the first technical support session, REL Northwest will continue to work with the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) to identify and meet goals of the Early Literacy Success School District Grant program. In...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: November 01, 2023
In the first technical support session of the series with the Oregon Department of Education (ODE), REL Northwest will help ODE to clearly define the goals of the Early Literacy Success School District Grant program and identify activities and outcomes...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: May 15, 2023
This will be the final support session between REL Northwest and the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) as part of a project updating Oregon’s literacy framework with recent research and evidence. In this collaborative meeting, REL Northwest will provide...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: May 03, 2023
The fourth working session with the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) will use Module 7 of the Program Evaluation Toolkit to train ODE partners on how to analyze the data collected in their internal and external focus groups. REL Northwest will train...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: March 14, 2023
In its second session, REL Northwest continued its training with Oregon Department of Education (ODE) partners on evidence from the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Practice Guides that can address the gaps and revision needs identified in the first session...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: February 15, 2023
REL Northwest identified sources, including recommendations from the What Works Clearinghouse practice guides that can be used to address the evidence gaps and revision needs identified during the first training session of this project. REL Northwest...

REL Northwest Logic Model (File pending)

REL Northwest Logic Model