Jenny Scala is a managing director for AIR. Scala has managed AIR’s early warning system efforts since 2013 and participates in multiple projects using her expertise in using data to inform instructional decision-making across the nation. She currently oversees implementation of AIR’s early warning intervention and monitoring systems (EWIMS) mid-phase ...
Darren Woodruff, a senior research analyst at AIR, is an invited panelist at a convening hosted by the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. and African-American Male Achievement Group, Inc. from September 29 to October 1, 2011.
Researchers can use knowledge translation activities to promote the use of rigorous study findings. The goal of knowledge translation is for targeted audiences to learn how to apply relevant research evidence to their lives. When people become more aware and knowledgeable about research, they can change their own behavior—or the ...
Dr. Anderson is a researcher at AIR with extensive experience in educational program evaluation and policy analysis, focusing on policies and programs to address systemic inequalities in education, including those related to student discipline, special education, teacher quality, curricular tracking, segregation, and opportunity gaps. Dr. Anderson has methodological expertise in ...
This pocket guide from AIR helps policymakers and practitioners adapt federal program funds to improve teaching and learning for all students. It is the third in a series on implementing ESEA flexibility plans.
Response to Intervention (RTI) has the capacity to be both a system for providing early interventions to struggling students and a special education diagnostic tool for evaluating and identifying students with specific learning disabilities. A new report authored by researchers at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), as a partner ...