Scaling work-based learning portfolios effectively and equitably involves aligning resources, processes, and practices across levels of school administration, as well as external businesses and nonprofit partners supporting work-based learning. In 2023, the Aurora Public Schools (APS) District reached out to AIR to pilot the co-creation of an aligned work-based learning ...
AIR, with its partners, provides programmatic and performance management technical assistance to help the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration’s H-1B grantees achieve project success across a variety of industries.
AIR provided strategic consultation to Tampa Bay Partnership to launch and implement highly active employer collaboratives focused on pipeline development for the healthcare and advanced manufacturing industries.
Participatory community-based research engages key stakeholders in data collection, analyses, and decision-making, which ultimately affects social change. AIR used this approach in an evaluation of a districtwide social-emotional learning (SEL) programming commissioned by Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS). ...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded AIR a five-year contract to strengthen the governance, transparency, and efficiency of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). HRSA’s OPTN Modernization Initiative aims to enhance the process of how patients are matched to organs, shorten wait times, address inequities, and improve ...
The Neighborhood Opportunity and Accountability Board seeks to reimagine the partnership between the justice system—including police—and the communities in Oakland, California. AIR is partnering with NICJR to conduct a formative mixed method evaluation of NOAB’s program implementation and outcomes and a quasi-experimental study of program impacts. ...
While the idea of family engagement in education is now broadly recognized, funding strategies to build effective partnerships have proven more tenuous. With the end of financial support from the federal ESSER Fund on the horizon, we offer three steps education leaders can take to broaden options for family engagement ...
While AI has great potential to improve efficiency in both education research and education practices, there is reason to be cautious. Researchers at AIR are working toward developing a set of evolving principles for how to address key issues related to AI in education research, and we are inviting others ...
AIR is evaluating policies and programs that increase capacity, guiding leaders in strategic planning, and supporting health workforce development programs.
In this Q&A, Nara Nayar, a technical assistance consultant, explains why it’s important to accurately count Indigenous students and the challenges of doing so in practice.
