The Northwest Regional Educator Network (NREN)

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Our Northwest Regional Educator Network has funded projects around the region at all levels by awarding sub grants to educators, grade level teams, building administrators, equity teams, superintendents, etc. in Clatsop, Columbia, Tillamook and Washington counties. The goal of NREN funding is to use a local lens to address inequities in our schools by supporting educators at the systemic level.

After two years of offering grant funding to districts to plan and conduct their own projects, we are shifting our efforts into large bodies of work so that we can support more educators in our region with professional development and advancement.

For more information schedule an appointment to meet with us or email us at nren@nwresd.k12.or.us.

More About This Initiative

What is the NREN?

What are the goals of the Educator Advancement Council?

As per the EAC Guidance, the NREN aims to:

Provide open access to high-quality and culturally responsive professional learning and support for educators in this state that reflects teacher voice, local contexts, and stages of an educator's career, maximizes collaborative leadership among teachers and administrators, and reflects professional learning standards.
Enhance a culture of leadership and collaborative responsibility that elevates and advances the teaching profession among professionals employed by early learning services, schools serving students in kindergarten through grade 12, education service districts, educator preparation providers, nonprofit organizations, professional associations, and community-based organizations.
Strengthen and enhance existing evidence-based practices that improve student achievement and reflect changing students' needs and demographics.
Improve the recruitment, preparation, induction, and support of educators at each stage of the educators' careers.
Enhance leadership and career advancement opportunities for teachers and increase teachers' perspectives in identifying priorities for funding educator professional learning and educator support.

Who is involved?

How are proposals reviewed?

All applications for NREN sub grants are reviewed against the following criteria:

Demonstrable alignment to the strategy areas articulated within the regional services and supports menu.
An articulation of the disparities, disproportionalities, and predictabilities (DDP) that the proposal will seek to address.
An itemized budget that identifies the ways in which funding will be utilized to operationalize the proposal.

Beyond these criteria, as fiscal sponsor the NREN team considers a variety of other lenses such as:

NWRESDs Equity Lens and Equity Policy
The National Equity Project (NEP) Liberatory Design Process

As well as other considerations when determining which applications will be prioritized:

Is the work educator centered and driven?
Are the identified metrics measurable, meaningful, and impactful?
Is the work sustainable over time?
Can the work be scaled to a regional support?