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.
Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, CMS awarded 20 states planning grants to increase their capacity to provide community-based mobile crisis intervention services for Medicaid individuals. Building on work that started as part of the ARP National Evaluation, AIR summarized awardee state use of planning grants through a ...
San Keller is a manager researcher at AIR. Dr. Keller provides intellectual leadership for the design and evaluation of psychometrically-based measures of health and health care and is principal investigator of NIH’s Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Network Center. Dr. Keller is an expert in the cross-cultural development and ...
Rebecca Zumeta Edmonds is a managing researcher at the AIR in Washington, DC, where she serves as the co-director of the National Center on Intensive Intervention, and as project director for an Investing in Innovation and Improvement (i3) Development Grant. She previously coordinated services for the Response to Intervention Center ...
Experts from the American Institutes of Research will discuss a broad range of research and interventions involving students with disabilities during the Council for Exceptional Children’s (CEC) annual conference in San Diego April 8-11, 2015.
Special education experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will participate in a variety of presentations, panel discussions and poster sessions at the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Convention and Expo occurring March 1-4, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Researchers for American Institutes for Research (AIR) have won the prestigious 2007 M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace, given by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).
The PROGRESS Center provides information, resources, and support for local educators and leaders responsible for the development and implementation of high-quality educational programs that ensure students with disabilities have access to free appropriate public education (FAPE) and that enables them to make progress and meet challenging goals. ...
Dena D. Slanda is a senior TA consultant in the Education and Instruction division at AIR. Dr. Slanda provides technical assistance and professional development to states and school districts with an emphasis on improving results for students with high-intensity needs. She does this by strengthening educator and administrator professional learning ...
As response to intervention (RTI) grows into its adolescence, questions about efficacy and challenges with implementation have emerged. The Center on RTI hosted a webinar, during which panelists addressed findings from the recent Institute of Education Sciences' evaluation of RTI, as well as lessons learned from state and local evaluations ...