Our Work
Our work at WestEd focuses on creating positive, innovative, and sustainable improvements in education and human development. Our committed staff collaborate with clients to:
- Help all children and youth enter school healthy and eager to learn
- Prepare students for postsecondary education
- Prepare students and adults to succeed in the workforce
- Tailor effective assessment strategies for states and districts
- Support education leadership
- Enhance teachers' ongoing professional development
- Find ways for community-based groups to collaborate and solve problems
WestEd brings the best ideas, models, research, and solutions to the significant questions and important challenges facing our clients and their communities. Our work is far-reaching because our goal is ambitious: success for every learner.
Below is a list of our key areas of work. Within each area of work, you will find related stories, services, research and evaluation studies, resources, free downloads and articles, and events — all targeted to help you make a difference in education and human development.
- Assessment, Standards, & Accountability
- Culture, Diversity, & Equity
- Early Childhood & Early Intervention
- English Learners
- Evaluation
- Healthy Kids, Schools, & Communities
- Leadership & Teacher Professional Development
- Literacy
- Mathematics & Science
- Policy
- Postsecondary and Career Readiness & Success
- School & District Improvement
- Special Education
- Technology & Information Services