McREL is a private, 501 (c)(3) education research and development corporation. Since 1966, when the Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory was founded to turn knowledge about what works in education into practical guidance for educators, McREL has grown into an organization with more than 110 employees and a wide array of clients and contracts in nearly 50 states and around the world.
Today, inside McREL’s headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and McREL's Pacific Center for Changing the Odds in Honolulu, Hawaii, you’ll find experienced researchers and education consultants working together to provide educators with research-based, practical guidance on the issues and challenges facing K−16 education. Our staff creates and delivers:
Featured Products and Services
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Balanced Leadership |
The Balanced Leadership® program is based on McREL’s research on principal and superintendent behaviors and practices that lead to increased student achievement. McRel offers books, workshops, and consulting that help school and district leaders translate the research into results.
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Classroom Instruction That Works |
McREL’s Classroom Instruction That Works (CITW), is one of the professional development manuals in education for more than a decade, has launched a collection of products, workshops and training, and free resources to help educators translate McRel's research-based instructional strategies into better achievement for students.
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Common Care |
The Common Core State Standards represent a unique opportunity to transform schools and classrooms into environments where all students can succeed. McREL’s suite of solutions takes the guesswork out of the Common Core so you can ensure all teachers consistently provide students with successful learning opportunities, and leaders understand how to effectively guide schools’ transition to the new standards.
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Early Childhood Education |
McRel's early childhood consultants can help you evaluate your current programs, coach teachers and principals in how to effectively use their curricula, and enhance the teaching of early learning skills through a variety of professional development offerings and workshops.
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Personal Evaluation |
McRel's personnel evaluation systems improve teacher and principal performance by focusing on what matters most in teaching and leadership practices. The evaluations include multiple indicators and Web-based tracking and reporting of results. We can also tailor either system to your school or district needs.
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Power Walkthrough |
McRel's Power Walkthrough® professional development and software help turn your brief classroom observations into meaningful opportunities for coaching teachers to higher levels of performance and guiding staff development efforts.
Power Walkthrough software, based on McREL’s Classroom Instruction That Works, 2nd edition (CITW), can be loaded on an iPad®/iPhone®/iTouch®, Android™, or Tablet PC .
McREL offers four training options for school leaders who purchase the software, designed to help school leaders gain a practical understanding of the CITW strategies, how they improve student learning, and how to identify their use in the classroom.
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Success in Sight |
Success in Sight: A Comprehensive Approach to School Improvement is a “less-is-more” approach to school improvement that helps schools raise student achievement and engage in continuous, sustainable improvement that builds on past successes. |
