NREA Weekly Updates: August 26th, 2022

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The Rural Educator - Uncovering Rural Educators' Secret Agency

School change efforts often rely on formal organizational structures to support educator knowledge of new instructional practices. Rural districts face challenges accessing the resources necessary for robust structures, but informal relationships among educators are often strong. Using structuration theory as a lens, this paper examines the knowledge-building behaviors of educators in one rural school district regarding new instructional practices related to a recent initiative.

National Rural Education Association Releases Five-Year Research Agenda

The National Rural Education Association (NREA) is pleased to release the National Rural Education Association Research Agenda – 2022-2027. The agenda charts a five-year research path for rural education with the goal of shedding light on innovative rural practices, addressing unique rural challenges, and continuing to build on the strengths of rural people and places.

The full agenda can be found on NREA’s website at https://www.nrea.net/NREA_Research_Agenda. Questions pertaining to the research process can also be directed to the research subcommittee members listed below.

Catharine Biddle - catharine.biddle@maine.edu

Pamela J. Buffington - pbuffington@edc.org

Sara L. Hartman - hartmans@ohio.edu

Erin McHenry-Sorber - ecmchenrysorber@mail.wvu.edu

J. Kessa Roberts - kessa.roberts@usu.edu

Sarah Schmitt-Wilson - sarah.wilson14@montana.edu

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What the research says about 4-day school weeks

Is a four-day school week a bad idea?

The answer matters because hundreds of thousands of students at more than 1,600 schools across 24 states were heading to school only four times a week by the spring of 2019, according to one estimate.

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Public and Private Sector Actions to Strengthen Teaching Profession and Help Schools Fill Vacancies

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing new efforts to strengthen the teaching profession and support schools in their effort to address teacher shortages as the new school year begins. This announcement includes new commitments from leading job platforms to make it easier for Americans to find opportunities in the education field, and new initiatives from teachers’ unions and national and state organizations to expand high-quality pathways into the profession for future teachers.