Overview

Welcome to the Region III Comprehensive Center

Providing high quality technical assistance and service to states, districts, and schools to facilitate the success of comprehensive education reform and school improvement initiatives The mission of the Region III Comprehensive Center is to provide high quality technical assistance and service to SEAs, LEAs, and schools to facilitate the success of comprehensive education reform and school improvement initiatives. We work collaboratively with our clients and partners with a focus on improving teaching and learning and ensuring equitable opportunities for all students to achieve challenging content and performance standards. We are committed to building strong working partnerships with other service providers and educators to bring coordinated assistance to educational systems throughout the region.

The Region III Comprehensive Center at The George Washington University welcomes you to its website. We hope this website becomes a means of learning and sharing of information for our clients and for ourselves. Our primary purpose in designing this website is to link users with resources and expertise that bear on issues of importance to the field of education. In addition, users will discover what the R3CC does, how we do it and why our services might apply to you.

Region III Comprehensive Center is located at The George Washington University, Center for Equity and Excellence in Education The Center was established to advance understanding of systemic educational reform and to carry out research and evaluation studies that support reform initiatives. The Center is especially equipped to address issues related to student populations who come from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The Center for Equity and Excellence in Education serves as the major partner for the Region III Comprehensive Center. The Center for Equity and Excellence in Education has a partnership with RMC Research Corporation, Research for Better Schools and ESCORT to run the Region III Comprehensive Center. RMC Research Corporation brings to the partnership extensive experience in research, evaluation, and professional development. It also brings extensive experience as a technical assisstance provider for Chapter/Title I programs. Research for Better Schools (RBS) brings to the partnership an extensive history of conducting research, development, and technical assistance projects designed to contribute to educational improvement in Pennsylvania and other Mid-Atlantic states. ESCORT at the State University of NewYork Research Foundation contributes its technical assistance expertise in migrant education, interstate coordination, and curriculum alignment. The Center has chosen to focus its work with clients around continuous school improvement in three areas: using data to improve educational decision-making improving literacy instruction increasing meaningful opportunities for parents to become involved in the education of their children. Our services are designed to improve educational programs that benefit all children, with an emphasis on districts and schools with a high percentage of children in poverty. In order to provide our clients with practical tools to promote continuous school improvement, the Center maintains staff expertise around five knowledge bases: School Reform and Improvement Parent Involvement Teaching and Learning Standards and Assessment Safe and Drug-free Environments

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Our services are available to schools, districts, and state departments of education in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. 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 The Center is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) and operated by The George Washington University's Center for Equity and Excellence in Education under Grant No. 283A50040.