Jessica Harris is the director of communications for the AIR Opportunity Fund, where she leads strategic efforts to advance its mission of increasing equity and mitigating the harmful effects of segregation by race and place. She oversees the team’s public relations, government outreach, branding and marketing, and events, and works ...
Bryan M. Gale has extensive experience in the health field, including qualitative data collection, systematic literature reviews, qualitative and quantitative data management and analysis, and task and project management.Gale's qualitative experience includes site visits, participant recruitment, moderating over 100 interviews and focus groups, data management, coding structure development, coding in ...
The goal of the Qualified Entity Certification Program is to increase transparency in healthcare so that patients and other stakeholders can make more informed decisions. AIR supports the prime contractor, Index Analytics, in technical assistance, policy analysis, monitoring, and operations subject matter expertise. ...
Jason Harlacher is the director for the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) Center, the co-director for the Wyoming MTSS Center, and a technical assistance provider with the National Center on Intensive Intervention. Dr. Harlacher coordinates projects and provides consultation and technical assistance to state departments and school districts on tiered ...
Doug Paulson has more than 20 years of experience as a teacher, school administrator, and state education leader. His primary role is to support state and local education agencies in revising and implementing state academic standards and creating programs and professional development that improve academic achievement for all students, with ...
On October 1, 2024, in Atlanta, GA, AIR held its second annual symposium, Opportunities Reimagined: Creating Educational Equity in Atlanta and Beyond. This event will unite national experts and Atlanta’s educators, policymakers, and community advocates to reflect on the journey of school integration and explore evidence-informed solutions to advance equity ...
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 ...
AIR and the Bridges Collaborative Continuous Improvement Study created an 8-week virtual conference series designed to educate and empower school leaders in all stages of integration work. The series, which ran from August 13th through October 2nd, 2024, featured learning and interactive sessions centered around school integration, segregation, and desegregation. ...
AIR has been funded by Ascendium Education Group for a three-year initiative to provide intensive technical assistance to a cohort of Higher Education in Prison (HEP) program grantees in refining and scaling high-leverage resources for the field and build a HEP Resource Repository.
Two reports released today provide new evidence on the educational and labor market outcomes for veterans who did and did not use their education benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill (PGIB) and those who used the benefits to attend different types of colleges, including public, nonprofit, and for-profit institutions. ...
