Midwest Comprehensive Center
The Midwest Comprehensive Center helps state, district, and school leaders in our region identify, implement, and sustain evidence-based programs and practices, with the goal of improving outcomes for educators and students.
Through the Midwest Comprehensive Center (Midwest CC), AIR is partnering with state, district, and school leaders in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin to empower educators and optimize student outcomes.
In doing this work, AIR supports state education agencies in their central goal: ensuring education systems meet the complex and ever-changing needs of students.
Midwest CC addresses key topics identified by state education leaders in the region.
These topics include:
Student Attendance and Engagement
The center supports state efforts to improve student attendance and engagement through interventions that support student attendance along with other evidence-based practices.
Career and Technical Education
Midwest CC helps states connect high‑impact, industry‑recognized credentials with expanded experiential work-based learning opportunities, creating clear pathways that prepare students for high‑skill, high‑demand careers.
Victoria Cirks
Managing Director
We help states build coherent, student-centered systems that turn research into everyday practice. Through capacity building, codesign, and cross-state learning, we strengthen what works and scale it—giving educators the tools, guidance, and support they need to improve outcomes for every learner
Victoria Cirks
Managing Director
School Improvement
The center works with states to develop customized systems of support that address schools’ needs.
Math Education
Midwest CC facilitates state efforts to define unified, scalable, and practical approaches to improving math teaching and learning that support systemic improvement and improved student outcomes.
