The progress of new programs is often measured by how well they are being executed. This approach tends to ignore a critical actor—the person charged with implementing the innovation. The Stages of Concern process helps keep the people doing the work at the center of the change process.
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AIR experts will present at several sessions during the 2020 spring conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, being held March 11-14, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. The conference will bring together education researchers, policy leaders, and professionals from around the country and is built around the theme, Practical ...
Access to in-prison education and work experience are associated with a reduction in the likelihood of recidivism and provide inmates with a critical element on the path to reshape their personal identities. Could offering prisoners more education and work experience inside prison be a key solution to mass incarceration in ...
Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, director of AIR’s Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (AIR CARES) and a practicing physician at Heartland Alliance Health in Chicago, discusses her personal experience in treating patients with addiction and how research can help tackle the opioid epidemic. ...
In 2021, the Center for Coordinated Assistance to States worked with the State Relations and Assistance Division at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to provide a certificate program for new Juvenile Justice Specialists and Compliance Monitors who work at the state level. Peer mentors are a main ...
Learning Point Associates, an affiliate of AIR, and its partners have been awarded a $3.8 million contract by the U.S. Department of Education to create online Communities of Practice that will engage a broad range of audiences, including teachers and administrators, to use innovative technologies to transform and personalize teaching ...
The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) offers tools and techniques that enable leaders to gauge staff concerns and program use in order to give each person the necessary supports to ensure success. Taking Charge of Change is a readable introduction to this method of predicting teacher behavior during a change process. ...
As the Indiana State Liaison for REL Midwest, AIR Researcher Billie Day helps maximize opportunities for rural students, schools, and communities. She answered some questions about what assets and challenges affect rural education, some misconceptions about it, and her personal connection to the work. ...
As the U.S. Department of Education invites school districts to apply for nearly $120 million in new Race to the Top-District (RTT-D) grants, AIR has released an issue paper that examines the approaches taken by 16 districts awarded early grants and identifies their common ideas for developing personalized learning environments. ...
