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MEPRI releases two reports on supports for students and teachers during COVID-19 pandemic

The Maine Educational Policy Research Institute (MEPRI) has published two new reports based on a study of the strategies and challenges involved in supporting preK–12 students and teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Beyond Crisis Schooling project receives 2021 NREA Best Research Award

Associate professor of educational leadership Catharine Biddle and lecturer in educational leadership Maria Frankland received the National Rural Education Association’s 2021 Best Research Award for the Beyond Crisis Schooling project.

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New guide highlights behavioral support networks in Maine

The 15-page “Resource Guide for Maine Families, Schools, and Communities: Integrated Multi-Tiered Systems of Support” provides family-friendly descriptions of services, information on how to access them, and outlines how to navigate the various supports in Maine.

The Maine Question: How have Maine schools dealt with the pandemic?

Last spring, when the coronavirus was causing major shifts in how schools educated children, associate professor of educational leadership Catharine Biddle and lecturer in educational leadership Maria Frankland, as well as students from the College of Education and Human Development did some research.

Maine Schools in Focus: Assessing Progress Toward Universal Preschool Education

The Maine Education Policy Research Institute (MEPRI), through the University of Maine, has conducted several studies in the past five years examining school districts’ readiness to start or expand public preschool, parents’ preferences for preschool, and the ways districts are structuring and delivering these programs in Maine.

Maine Schools in Focus: Improving Educator Effectiveness—Useful Feedback Key to Maine’s PEPG Initiative

In 2012, Maine joined the majority of states in the effort to upgrade professional quality through better performance evaluation of teachers and principals. The Legislature, in passing LD 1858, required all districts to develop Professional Evaluation and Professional Growth (PEPG) systems, part of the federal government’s Race to the Top. All districts were to create their own systems and pilot them in 2015-16. This year, some districts are implementing these systems while others are taking a second year of pilot-testing.

Maine Schools in Focus: Toward a Fairer Tax for Schools

We often hear that Mainers are “overtaxed.” Such arguments arise during school budget time. But are Mainers “overtaxed” when it comes to their schools?

Maine Schools in Focus: Partnering with Parents? But More and More, They’re at Work

Parents make a difference when they talk with their kids regularly about school, engage with them over homework, and make their homes “literacy rich.” But as Maine schools seek to increase parents’ engagement in learning activities, more parents are working than ever before.

Maine Schools in Focus: No Longer Flying Solo—The Transformation of Teaching in Maine Schools

Editor: Gordon Donaldson Maine’s one-room schoolhouse heritage disappeared with the advent of roads, buses, and consolidated schools. But the image of that past teacher lives on—that teacher who “did it all” for her students. The last 35 years have witnessed the greatest transformation in this respect: teaching is now performed by an array of professionals […]