The McREL Institute at ESC Region 13 helps schools, districts, education agencies, and other organizations across the U.S. and around the world improve educator efficacy and student learning.
McREL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan education research and development organization that provides evidence-based professional learning, coaching, and school improvement consulting to support educators and student learning. It was founded in 1966 and later reconstituted in 2025, merging research and program evaluation into NORC at the University of Chicago and professional learning and consulting into the Education Service Center Region 13.
Provider of online education and training services intended to measurably improve the lives of vulnerable sections of society. The company offers verticalized e-learning services and applications for senior care, post-acute care, autism, applied behavior analysis, public safety, payers as well as intellectual and developmental disabilities organizations, thereby helping them deliver better clinical and financial outcomes by reducing variation in care.