Expertise

NCREST includes senior and junior staff members from a range of backgrounds, including teaching, administration, research, program design, and program evaluation. Our areas of expertise include:

• Teacher learning and development
• Leadership learning and development
• Small, innovative school designs
• K-12 school reform
• Early college high schools
• School quality reviews
• High school/college partnerships and initiatives
• College readiness
• Formative/summative assessments
• Data use in school development
• Implementing the Common Core State Standards

Drawing on that expertise, we provide a range of services including:

• Research
  • Action research
  • Collaborative research
  • Documentation
  • Quantitative methodological approach
  • Qualitative methodological approach


• Evaluation
  • Developmental programming and evaluation
  • Process, output and outcome evaluation


• Multi-leveled Assessment Practices
  • School assessments (e.g. SQR, and CRF)
  • Formative/summative assessments of student performance


• Professional Development
  • Teacher professional development
  • Leadership professional development
  • Training on how to do research
  • Training on effective use of data
  • Guidance for school and program planning


• Data Use Facilitation
  • Guidance for using data in school improvement efforts
  • Tools and skills for collaborative and communicative data use
  • Data-based decision making for school administration and management
  • Data-based decision making for evidence-based teaching and learning