Leadership & Teacher Professional Development
As early care education and social institutions take on increasingly complex work, teachers and administrators are being stretched in more areas than ever before. Today’s educators are expected to help the most diverse student population in history meet the highest education standards ever set.
For school and district administrators, teacher leaders, and leaders of community-based organizations, WestEd offers a number of services, including leadership training, workshops, technical assistance, and evaluation strategies.
Featured Services
Leadership Initiative
Support state, regional, district, and site administrators in building the capacity and confidence necessary to lead effective schools and districts.
K-12 Alliance Science Content Institutes
Increase your science content knowledge and pedagogical skills for teaching science.
Additional Services
Academic Parent-Teacher Teams (APTT): Family Engagement in Education
This WestEd service will help you build a school system of family engagement that drives student learning and performance.
Algebra Intervention: Aim for Algebra™ Curriculum & Professional Development
Learn more about this intervention curriculum, which provides struggling students with learning experiences that reinforce, refresh, and re-teach the most important algebra concepts.
Aligning Mathematics Standards, Instruction, and Assessment
This customized institute improves and enhances teacher practice by providing a deeper understanding of mathematics content standards.
Bridging Cultures Between Home and School Institute
Learn how to design and implement programs that address the needs of underserved cultural, linguistic, and racial student groups.
Collaborative Evaluation of School-Based or District-Based Initiatives
Bring together your team of school- and district-based educators for a two-day institute focused on planning and conducting ongoing evaluation of your local education initiatives.
Community College Faculty Seminars in Reading Apprenticeship®
These seminars introduce community college faculty to our evidence-based Reading Apprenticeship framework.
Discussion Builders Workshop
This one-day workshop is ideal for K–8 teachers who would like to help students with diverse academic, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds participate in, and successfully learn from, discussion-based lessons.
DistrictsMovingUp
Our DistrictsMovingUp team provides customized, comprehensive research-based solutions that meet the unique needs of your school district.
Early Start Institute Series
This Institute series contributes to California’s efforts to ensure that a qualified, trained cadre of professionals is available throughout the state to serve infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families.
Home Visiting the PITC Way
Our Program for Infant/Toddler Care (PITC) prepares home visitors to support parents in understanding, promoting, and delighting in their children's healthy development.
Improving Mathematics Teaching Through Leadership and Teacher Professional Development
Increase your understanding of student mathematical thinking, consider the implications for your teaching, and improve your classroom practice.
Leadership Institutes in Reading Apprenticeship®: Middle and High School Focus
Learn how to lead professional development in Reading Apprenticeship — a research-driven framework that helps adolescents become successful readers and writers.
Learning to Lead Mathematics K-12 Professional Development Institutes
Our staff work with groups of leaders, K-12, to help them design and implement quality mathematics professional development.
Making Sense of SCIENCE™
Learn how to implement Understanding Science professional development courses in your school, district, local education agency, university, or school reform organization.
Math Pathways & Pitfalls Institute
Teachers attending this institute will learn ways to help students overcome pitfalls, boost learning of key mathematics standards, and develop academic language. The institutes also highlight crucial strategies for working with diverse learners.
Mentoring and Coaching New Teachers: A Comprehensive Approach to New Teacher Induction
Learn the best approaches for developing effective, high-quality teachers.
National Academy for K-12 Science and Mathematics Education Leadership
Develop and enhance your leadership knowledge, skills, and strategies in science and mathematics education.
Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) Building the Base Institute: Literacy
Learn literacy-specific applications of Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) practices for promoting academic language development and content knowledge in secondary school classrooms where English learners and non-English learners all benefit.
Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) Building the Base Institute: Mathematics
Learn mathematics-specific applications of Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) practices for promoting academic language development and content knowledge in secondary school classrooms where English learners and non-English learners all benefit.
Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) Customized School and/or District Partnerships
Customize on-site Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) teacher and leadership support that fits your schedule: teacher and leadership professional development, coaching, disciplinary consultation and lesson planning, and local capacity building.
Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) Institute: Instructional Leadership
As a principal, assistant principal, curriculum specialist, professional developer, coach, or teacher leader, learn how to support and extend Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) practices in your school or district.
Reading Apprenticeship®: Bay Area Professional Development Series
This research-based seminar series helps school teams implement and adapt Reading Apprenticeship approaches in their content area classes.
Reading Apprenticeship® Online for Community College Instructors
Reading Apprenticeship® professional development is now available online for community college instructors.
Reading Apprenticeship® Academic Literacy Course: Curriculum & Teacher Training
Learn how to use the research-based Reading Apprenticeship approach to help your ninth graders become more powerful readers.
School Leadership Team Development Workshops
This workshop series guides school leadership teams to take sustained action on local goals.
School Turnaround Workshop Toolkit
Conduct your own workshop on research-based approaches to turning around low-performing schools.
Teach for Success® (T4S®) Foundational Institute
In this research-based institute, administrators and teachers learn more about the process of teaching and how to improve classroom instructional practices.
Teacher Institute in Reading Apprenticeship®: Middle and High School Focus
Our researchers help cross-disciplinary middle and high school teachers, instructional leaders, and community college instructors learn to implement Reading Apprenticeship in their schools.
The Making Science Accessible to English Learners Workshop
Workshop participants engage in a hands-on, student-centered model lesson as they learn research-based teaching strategies for English learners.