What should states and districts working on school improvement keep in mind about successful turnaround efforts? AIR experts have identified nine key conditions that led to successful turnaround in Massachusetts that could be useful to education leaders in other states.
The Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) and the Texas Comprehensive Center (TXCC) hosted the Regional Institute, Supporting High-Quality Rural Education, at the Embassy Suites Austin - Central Hotel in Austin, Texas, on November 5–7, 2014. This institute was by invitation only for educators at state-level agencies and organizations who are engaged ...
The Great Lakes Comprehensive Center was one of 15 regional comprehensive centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education for the October 2012–September 2019 grant cycle of the Comprehensive Centers Program. The centers provided capacity-building technical assistance to state education agencies in their implementation and administration of programs authorized under ...
COVID-19 dramatically accelerated the use of telehealth in behavioral healthcare, In the context of surging overdose-related mortality rates, the need to remove barriers to the equitable delivery of evidence-based care for treating opioid use disorder (OUD) in a telehealth setting has never been more urgent. Colleagues across AIR and IMPAQ ...
The Ohio Department of Education recently developed two pilot initiatives: the Ohio Performance Assessment Pilot Project (OPAPP) and the Formative Assessment Middle School (FAMS) Pilot Project. Through OPAPP’s professional development, teachers learned how to transfer learning tasks and assessment tasks into their classroom instruction. Similarly, FAMS was designed to train ...
In this blog post, published as part of the work of the Midwest Comprehensive Center, Chris Times discusses how states can ensure that all students have access to excellent educators.
In 2010, Jefferson County (Jeffco) Public Schools in Colorado was awarded a five-year grant to implement the Jeffco Strategic Compensation (StratComp) Initiative. StratComp, which provides professional supports to all educators, is a new teacher evaluation observation system in which administrators and peers conduct observations, job-embedded professional development is aligned to ...
This spotlight takes a look at the history of Title I, how the program has changed over time, and how it affects children, schools, families and education policy. Experts weigh in on the program's past and future in interviews, briefs, and blogs.
At this event, AIR research experts and superintendents discussed findings from AIR's research briefs and the implications for practice and policy in a post-COVID era.