States and districts can support successful transition from secondary to postsecondary education and career pathways by ensuring academic standards are meaningful for all students and aligned with postsecondary entrance requirements. The following resources from the CCRS Center highlight some strategies such as competency-based education that states and districts can consider ...
Preparing students for the careers of tomorrow requires policymakers and leaders to engage cross-sector stakeholders (e.g., education, workforce, industry) to create policy environments that support college and career readiness and opportunity for all students. The following resources from the CCRS Center highlight strategies such as using geographic information systems to ...
The College & Career Readiness & Success Center (CCRS Center), operated from 2012 to 2019, provided technical assistance support to states focused on ensuring all students graduate high school ready for college and career success.
Since 2007, the MTSS Center has been a national leader in supporting states, districts, and schools across the country in implementing tiered support systems that address students’ academic, behavioral, social, and emotional needs.
The Region 9 Comprehensive Center, operated by AIR through a U.S. Department of Education grant since October 2019, provides intensive capacity-building services to state education agencies and other education stakeholders in Illinois and Iowa.
Too many students, especially those with disabilities, lack basic reading and math skills or have serious disciplinary problems in school. In a special issue of Teaching Exceptional Children, edited by AIR's Maurice McInerney, experts from the National Center on Intensive Intervention offer educators practical suggestions to help meet the needs ...
Sarah Frazelle is the co-director of the National Student Attendance and Engagement Center (SEAC) and a senior researcher at AIR focusing on projects related to attendance and engagement. In her role at SEAC, she leads the AIR team in developing tools to help reduce chronic absenteeism through root cause analysis ...
Lisa Lachlan is a managing TA consultant at AIR. Dr. Lachlan has more than a decade of experience managing policy, practice and systems change projects in education at the federal, state and district levels. At the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders (GTL Center), she spearheads support to states and ...