New York

Stakeholder Feedback

“I loved your recent webinar on improving reading comprehension from pre-K through third grade. I encouraged my current and former master’s speech-language pathology students to participate and a number of them did. Excellent. I also put the link to the various practice guides on my Bilingual Extension Institute Facebook page. It is a way for people to stay up to date once they graduate. Your work completely supports that goal.”

— Dr. Catherine J. Crowley, Director of the Bilingual Extension Institute, and Lecturer in the Program in Speech-Language Pathology, Teachers College, Columbia University

“We need research that can indicate the best career areas and job opportunities in order to help develop the most appropriate curricula. Like green technology, for example. And that’s something that REL-NEI could be very helpful with, helping us to work through those kinds of issues.”

— Dr. Raymond Kesper, Coordinator, Office of district Superintendents, New York State Education Department

“Change in American education systems can happen so fast that sometimes state education departments are the last to get a chance to slow the pace down to listen to one another. Unfortunately, we rarely get a chance to slow down and talk with people in our town region and share best practices. The recent webinar that was guided by the researchers at REL-NEI helped us to slow down, listen, ask for follow-up and request additional information. Because of tight spending controls we could not have gone to a conference, but we were able to remain on site and benefit from national expertise.”

— New York State Education Department

“Thank  you, again, for all the work you are doing for us. It is greatly appreciated. My sense is that the partnerships with REL-NEI, the New York Comprehensive Center, and the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality are just beginning to take root in changes of practice and systems. We will keep you posted as we manage to use these learnings to make incremental, and hopefully wider, changes in our work with New York State education stakeholders.”

— alysan Slighter, Acting Coordinator, Office of Planning and Professional Development, New York State Education Department

“We very much appreciated the REL presentation at our last BETAC [Bilingual Education Technical Assistance Center] Directors meeting in Albany which was so informative. We are looking forward to working with you in our commitment to effective quality education for our students.”

— Ms. Nicole Rosefort, Director of New York State HABETAC (Haitian Bilingual and ESL Technical Assistance CenteR)

“Thanks for the valuable contributions that you made to this work. We are looking forward to working with you as we implement the recommendations in support of teacher preparation programs and teaching practice that have been approved by the Board of Regents. I truly appreciate the research support you provided for this study.”

— Nancy Willie-Schiff, Former Special Projects Coordinator, Office of Higher Education, New York State Education DepartmenT

“On behalf of my NYS curriculum colleagues, please accept my sincere thanks for the productive and engaging discussions at last week’s focus group meetings. Each of us learned a great deal from our colleagues in other states and from the assigned facilitators and recorders.”

— Anne Schiano, Assistant Director, Office of Curriculum, Instruction, and Instructional Technology, New york STate Education Department

“We appreciate your contribution to the preparation of the draft document for the Regents Work Group meeting. This is an ongoing endeavor that can ultimately impact policy in teacher preparation and retention in New York State.”

— senior Research Associate, New York Comprehensive Center