AIR’s approach to personalized learning draws upon our rigorous research base and strong field experience in facilitating educational system change efforts across the nation and globe. Explore AIR-developed resources to support states, districts, and schools that would like to implement personalized learning programming. ...
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was passed by Congress and signed into law in December 2015. With a new Administration and a new Secretary of Education, it is expected that new information will released in upcoming weeks and months regarding the implementation of ESSA. Refer to these official government ...
These teaching ideas are instructional routines teachers can implement in their classrooms to help students become more deeply and actively engaged in understanding algebra. The ideas focus on how teachers can help students better engage, defined as making deep mathematical connections, justifying and critiquing mathematical thinking, and solving challenging problems ...
The Guide for Reflecting on Instructional Depth, or GRID, helps teachers reflect on their instruction, identify areas where they can be more student-centered. The four-part video GRID series provides step-by-step guidance for determining students’ depth of mathematical justifications and who is driving those justifications. ...
To support state- and district-wide school-monitoring processes and strategic and effective school improvement efforts, AIR conducts school quality reviews that are grounded in research and informed and refined by practice. AIR works collaboratively with states and districts to implement a school monitoring process that relies on rigorous research methods and ...
The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.
Through the Comprehensive Centers Program, the U.S. Department of Education awards discretionary grants for centers to provide capacity-building technical assistance to states and school districts in their design and implementation of evidence-based policies, practices, programs, and interventions that improve instruction and student achievement and outcomes. AIR has operated comprehensive centers ...
The District and School Improvement Center at AIR is proud to share stories of our work with district and school administrators and teacher leaders across the country. In each issue, we share how our partnership supports practices for continuous improvement as well as the latest from AIR education research. ...
We believe that school leaders must be results-driven instructional leaders and change agents. These core beliefs have resulted in an industry-leading model for leadership coaching that is focused on developing the skills and behaviors that will lead to improved outcomes for all learners. Our competency-based leadership coaching model is focused ...