Northwest Regional Education School District, based in Hillsboro, Ore., is an education service district. The school district s service area includes more than 170 public schools in Clatsop, Columbia, Tillamook and Washington counties, spanning approximately 3,500 square miles across the northwest corner of Oregon. The schools offer educational and extracurricular programs to students in grades kindergarten through 12. The school district s instruction and school improvement services department provides support and consultation services in curriculum and staff development to 20 component school districts. The services are designed to assist the districts in meeting the requirements of Oregon 21st Century Reform. The school district has additional service centers located in Astoria, St. Helens and Tillamook, Ore.
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory is a private, nonprofit corporation that provides research and development assistance to education, government, community agencies, business and labor agencies. Located in Portland, Ore., it conducts several programs and projects providing services in the areas of classroom teaching and learning; school and district improvement; school, family and community; and research, evaluation, and assessment. Additionally, the corporation conducts projects that include after school programs, balancing life and work and the school improvement research series. It offers professional development services for K-12 instructional staff, such as developing mathematics understanding in English language learners, integrating technology in K-12 education, program and mathematics problem-solving model. Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory is part of a national network of 10 educational laboratories funded by the Department of Education and Institute of Education Sciences to serve the Northwest region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington.
