State: Alabama
Alabama
Your Guide to Data and Services for Alabama
SREB works with Alabama policymakers, colleges and schools to help them improve education. From this page, find independent, accurate data, reliable best practices and ways to share scarce resources — plus details on how Alabama uses SREB’s targeted programs and services.
Alabama Members of the Board
Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama, Montgomery, ex officio (2023)
Alan Baker, State Representative, Brewton (2021)
Caroline Novak, President, A+ Education Partnership, Montgomery (2018)
Ed Richardson, former State Superintendent of Education, Montgomery (2020)
Chuck Smith, Demopolis, Alabama (2019)
(Appointments to the Board are made by the Governor. Terms expire June 30 of the specified year.)
Alabama Members of the Legislative Advisory Council
Alan Baker, State Representative, Brewton
Terri Collins, State Representative, Decatur
Vivian Davis Figures, State Senator, Mobile
Rod Scott, State Representative, Fairfield
Alabama
College Affordability Profile
To help policymakers assess and improve college affordability in their states, SREB provides tailored reports on the policies, programs and prices that drive affordability. Each state profile details net price at different types of institutions, state financial aid based on need or other factors, student borrowing, and percentage of family income needed to pay for college at different income levels.
Alabama: Looking Closer
Looking Closer is the eighth biennial report to SREB states on their progress in meeting SREB’s Challenge to Lead goals for education. Each customized state report documents progress on both measurable outcomes and state policies. Through effective policy implementation, the goals can help states drive improvements in student achievement, high school graduation, college completion and workforce readiness.
Alabama Featured Facts
from the SREB Fact Book on Higher Education
Alabama-specific data on population, demographic, education attainment, enrollment, graduation rates, workforce, tuition, debt, funding, faculty salaries and more.
Principal Raises Academic Rigor With LDC and Good Assignments
In the fall of 2015, Southeastern School, a K-12 school serving a suburban community outside of Birmingham, Alabama, began adopting the Literacy Design Collaborative and the Mathematics Design Collaborative instructional strategies.
Before Southeastern made the commitment to implementing LDC and MDC, Principal Glenn Puckett knew it was important to have teacher buy-in and he asked some of the mid-career teachers to look into the literacy and math frameworks more closely.
Professional Learning
Alabama
SREB researchers gathered information on efforts in Alabama, particularly at the Alabama State Department of Education, to foster effective professional learning on the state’s college- and career-readiness standards, the Alabama College- & Career-Ready Standards. In collaboration with SREB states and national experts, SREB identified a set of expected state actions — “look-fors” — in four areas of state leadership in professional learning.
Alabama Science Teacher Sets Higher Expectations Using Literacy Strategies
Why did the deer cross the road? The usual answer to the joke is “to get to the other side.”
That question serves as a prompt for seventh-grade science students to start looking for answers through data-driven research and in-depth writing. Their teacher, Reese Woytek at Slocomb Middle School in Geneva County, Alabama, is using the instructional framework of the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC). He received his LDC training in 2015. The Southern Regional Education Board is training teachers across Alabama, and Woytek’s experience is a perfect example of how LDC strategies can change teacher focus and impact students.
