The Essential Conversations to Build Capacity through Family, School, and Community Partnerships
April 2022
This webinar shared effective practices and strategies to engage all stakeholders. The goals of the WI-ULI and the WMCC10 are to promote effective family school and community engagement practices and to exchange ideas across the education and business community.
Strengthening Family-School Partnerships within Rural Schools
March 2022
This webinar provided tangible strategies to enhance family-school partnerships in rural schools. Presented March 24, 2022.
Profile of Wisconsin Teachers (2000-2020)
Resources and Technical Assistance for Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs) to Strengthen the Educator Workforce
March 2022
The goal of this brief is to present a descriptive profile of key attributes of Wisconsin’s teacher labor force. Twenty years of data are included (between 1999-00 and 2020-21 school years) in this summary, including number of teachers, what they teach, where they teach, and selected demographic characteristics (including gender, race/ethnicity, age, and years of experience).
Profile of Wisconsin Principals (2000-2020)
Resources and Technical Assistance for Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs) to Strengthen the Educator Workforce
March 2022
This policy brief, produced by the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as part of the Region 10 Comprehensive Center, is one in a series which examines selected topics related to Wisconsin’s educator workforce. This brief is a descriptive profile of Wisconsin’s principal and assistant principal labor force over the past 20 years.
Rural School District Collaboratives for Shared Services
January 2022
Rural school districts across the country are increasingly turning to shared service collaboratives as a strategy for providing high-quality opportunities for students, while they are facing financial challenges due to flat or declining enrollment. These partnerships are proving to be successful in both Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Minnesota Multi-Tiered System of Support Roadmap
November 2021
The Minnesota Multi-tiered System of Support (MnMTSS) Roadmap describes a process for districts to evaluate their current levels of implementation, plan for continuous improvement towards optimum operation, and monitor systemic fidelity and implementation progress. The MnMTSS Roadmap includes self-evaluation tools which measure the implementation of the MnMTSS Framework components and subcomponents.
Minnesota Safe Learning Survey: Winter and Spring 2021 Subgroup Analysis by Geography and Student Race/Identity
October 2021
Seeking to understand the experiences of educators, families, and students in K-12 public schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wisconsin-Minnesota Comprehensive Center (WMCC)— working with the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)—has developed the Safe Learning Survey that is being conducted at three intervals: Winter (February), Spring (May-June), and Fall (October-November), 2021. To date, two public reports have been published sharing the results of the Safe Learning Surveys conducted in the Winter (February) and Spring (May-June) of 2021. The purpose of this companion brief is to provide additional information disaggregated (i.e., broken down) by district geography and student race/ ethnicity on five key themes and potential areas for policy and practice improvement.
Wisconsin School District Learning Plans and Enrollment in the 2020-21 School Year
September 2021
To assess the state of remote learning throughout Wisconsin in the 2020-21 school year, remote learning plans from 59 sample districts were reviewed, both at the start and near the end of the school year.
Learning from the Pandemic: An Analysis of WI Districts’ Requests for Hours of Instruction Flexibility
August 2021
During the 2020-21 school year, Wisconsin districts applied to the Department of Public Instruction for waivers to respond to the evolving public health pandemic. This analysis, which focuses on districts utilizing Hours of Instruction and Length of School Day flexibilities, was designed to take stock of what was learned during this unusual year and to uncover possible new innovations.
Minnesota Safe Learning Survey: Spring 2021 Survey of Minnesota Educators, Families, and Students
August 2021
The R10CC developed the Minnesota Safe Learning Survey to examine educators’, students’ (grades 6-12), and families’ educational experiences during the first half of the 2020-21 academic year. The second Safe Learning Survey, the subject of this report, was conducted from May 5, 2021 to June 18, 2021. Over 10,500 respondents, including 2,844 educators, 1,685 students, and 6,004 family members completed the survey this spring. It is the continued hope of the WMCC10 that data from the Minnesota Safe Learning Surveys will continue to provide insights as to how educators, students, and families are feeling about school during this unprecedented time in history.