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Eleanor Jaffee, Ph.D., Owner and Principal Consultant, Insights Evaluation, LLC. Amy Barry, MA, Evaluation Associate, UNH Carsey School of Public Policy Mona Hajnaghizadeh, UNH Graduate Research Assistant & Doctoral Student, UNH Carsey School of Public Policy Recently, Amy and Eleanor presented highlights from The TRRE Year 5 Evaluation Report at the semi-annual meeting Advisory Board on January 6, 2022. Their presentation covered TRRE Cohort 4 program feedback, teacher preparation, and graduates’ induction experience. Over time, TRRE Cohorts reported rating of their teacher preparation experience with TRRE shows an increase in the satisfaction with the quality of the program, evidence of the continual improvement process within TRRE. This finding relates specifically to each cohort’s graduation rating of preparation [represented by the blue bar] For example, Cohort 1 at graduation rated their preparation near “good” on average. The graduation average increased at each cohort’s gr...

Abbey (Filiault) Farias, TRRE Graduate, was selected last summer as the Peter C. and Kristin Van Curan Nordblom Summer Fellow at the University of New Hampshire Carsey School of Public Policy. Farias proposed research on school services addressing rural homelessness in New Hampshire in her fellowship application. The final draft of her research project, A Case Study on Homeless School Liaisons in the North Country , was submitted to homeless school liaisons across the state to increase awareness of the issues uncovered in her research. What Farias learned was incredibly valuable as a teacher. Did you know The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act 1 requires schools to find and assist homeless students and it is a child’s right to stay the school year in their school of origin? Although broad support through McKinney-Vento is offered, many families and educators are unaware of it. In addition, common challenges with implementation of McKinney-Vento become more complicated in a rural se...