Fred Tempes is the Director of WestEd's Comprehensive School Assistance Program.

Tempes directs WestEd's assistance to low-performing schools and districts in Arizona, California, Nevada, Washington, and Hawaii. He oversees the design and evaluation of WestEd's approach to school improvement planning and implementation, as well as professional development efforts aimed at increasing teachers' effective use of student engagement strategies, coaching principals to support instructional improvement, creating assessment and accountability systems at the local level, and enhancing English language arts instruction for English learners.

In addition, Tempes directs WestEd's California Comprehensive Center, a federally funded technical assistance center charged with building the capacity of California to implement the No Child Left Behind Act and close the student academic achievement gap.

Tempes also oversees the Migrant Student Information Network project in California. This project produces the unduplicated count of migrant students in California by providing the tools, technical assistance, and training to ensure that each of the Migrant Regions is entering, maintaining, uploading, and updating information needed to produce the count as required by the U.S. Department of Education.

Prior to joining WestEd in 1999, Tempes directed the California Department of Education's School and District Accountability Division, overseeing a shift from a compliance monitoring system that focused on rules and regulations to an accountability model that holds schools responsible for student learning. He also led the Department's Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Division, where he was responsible for the development of the state's curriculum frameworks and the California Learning Assessment System.

A former Peace Corps Volunteer and Teacher Corps Intern, Tempes received a BA in economics from Stanford University, and an MA in bilingual education and PhD in international education from the University of Southern California.