Services

R3CC technical assistance providers: Give direct services to clients and build client capacity. Help clients take a systems perspective in order to design and implement improvements effectively. Focus on adult learning--where both clients and technical assistance providers actively engage in the construction of new knowledge. Get to "know" each client by building good working relationships and maintaining a deep understanding of the local environment and context. Are there when help is most needed--as change is being implemented. Provide sustained and focused assistance over time in implementing an innovation. Play a variety of roles: a source of information; a consultant for developing resources and analyzing issues; a trainer for implementing new practices; a process facilitator; and a builder of linkages.

R3CC staff provide high quality technical assistance and service to states, districts, and schools to facilitate the implementation of NCLB and school improvement initiatives. View R3CC Technical Assistance Briefs for examples of how we provide high quality technical assistance tailored to our clients' needs. Our services are available to state departments of education, local school districts, schools, tribes, and other programs responsible for implementing provisions in the Improving America's Schools Act in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the District of Columbia. Assistance is given primarily to districts and schools with high percentages of children in poverty. R3CC technical assistance services are focused in six major areas. Click on each area to find examples of Center work. Serving as a Consultant, Critical Friend, and Sounding Board Such assistance may include: telephone/e-mail consultation on-site consultation (e.g. action research, data analysis, planning, problem-solving, group facilitation, evaluation, etc.) creating planning tools (e.g., needs analysis, change inventories, formative evaluation strategies) Convening Special Events Such assistance may include: designing, planning and convening conferences, symposia and meetings Developing and Disseminating Resource Materials and Information Such assistance may include developing, identifying and providing: background readings, annotated bibliographies and research summaries reference documents regarding NCLB issue area papers special products such as A Practical Discussion of Inclusion Issues in Statewide Assessments Emerging from Standards-Based Education Reform and Title I. Conducting Professional Development Activities Such assistance may be sustained and intensive or short-term and can include: small group seminars intensive skill training workshops institutes (continuous or short-term) large group awareness presentations and workshops training of trainers Building Networks Such assistance may include connecting clients to: one another through establishing networks of schools and districts one another through establishing special interest and working groups other technical assistance and resource organizations Offering Expertise R3CC staff keep current on relevant research, policies and practices in three areas: School Reform and Improvement Teaching and Learning Parent and Community Involvement

For each state and the District of Columbia, specific staff members are assigned as the primary contacts for our clients. If you are affiliated with a state department of education, are an administrator or superintendent of a district, or a school principal and wish to receive services, please contact us at the address indicated.

Requesting Services The Region III Comprehensive Center 1730 North Lynn Street, Suite 401 Arlington, VA 22209 T: (800) 925-3223 (703) 528-3588 F: (703) 528-5973 E-mail: r3cc@ceee.gwu.edu