Mary Kay Dugan is a managing technical assistant consultant at AIR. She is passionate about identifying evidence-based promising practices and translating them into policies and effective programs focused on underserved populations including disadvantaged youth and young adults. Dugan has over 30 years of experience helping federal, state, and local governments ...
Mary Thorngren has more than 30 years of experience in managing and providing training and technical assistance to school districts, community-based organizations, public health, and other systems to improve the lives of children, youth, and families. Thorngren is the project director for the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs, a ...
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. ...
AIR believes that personalized learning efforts must have critical foundational elements, build in the relevant essential hallmarks, and opportunities to amplify learning with technology. Our 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. ...
As states, districts and schools embark on the personalized learning journey, it is critical to ensure a strong foundation that includes embracing culturally responsive learning, social-emotional approaches, and flexible learning environments allowing for anywhere, anytime learning.
At AIR, we recognize that states, districts, and schools are at various stages of adopting personalized learning approaches. We encourage you to consider how to incorporate student-centered learning and student agency, competency-based education, and deeper learning into your personalized learning programs as essentials for success. ...
Personalized learning is often equated with individual learning using technology. Yet for many students, learning on their own may not effectively meet their needs. The aim of this study was to explore racial differences in experiences and benefits associated with collaboration.
Research shows that the mere presence of a weapon in a car can intensify deadly aggression. In this commentary for CNN, AIR expert Mary Vriniotis addresses the recent road rage death of a 44-year-old mother and the complex relationship between guns and cars.
The theme of Public Schools Week 2022 is “Creating Safe, Equitable and Engaging Public Schools,” which directly aligns to the AIR-authored volume, Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools. AIR’s David Osher and Mary Cathryn Ricker from the Shanker Institute provide fresh insights on what safe, equitable, and engaging means in our ...
Through our Meet the Expert feature, get to know some of AIR’s key staff, learning what drives and keeps them going, the work they find most meaningful, and even a little bit about how they spend their personal time.
