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The Innovation Studies Program creates and disseminates user-friendly information to support educators who want to understand and effectively implement promising policies and practices.
The Innovation Studies program helps educators find promising ideas, understand how they work, and put them into action. To do this, staff conduct descriptive studies and formative evaluations, and use interactive media to enhance the professional learning process.
One of Innovation Studies' signature projects is Doing What Works (DWW), a website that translates research-based practices into multimedia tools and resources that can be used to improve the quality of education. The U.S. Department of Education awarded Innovation Studies a five-year, $15 million contract to continue to develop content and support users of DWW.
Another key initiative is the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning (CFTL) at WestEd, dedicated to strengthening teacher development policy and practice. CFTL staff accomplish this goal by using evidence-based data, careful analysis, and thoughtful communication to build visibility and understanding of the teaching force and its impact on student learning.
Completion by Design is an Innovation Studies project focused on higher education. This Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded initiative helps significantly improve student completion rates at community colleges.
2011 Year in Review
 This two-page 2011 program overview (PDF) contains key services, projects, and resources; highlights; and the proportion of program work by function and by funding source.
Director: Nikola Filby
Projects associated with this program:
WestEd staff involved with this program:
- Kim Austin, Senior Program Associate
- Kathy Reeves Bracco, Community College Research Specialist
- Grace Calisi, Research Associate
- Noelle Caskey, Senior Research Associate
- Eric Crane, Senior Research Associate
- Mina Dadgar, Policy Research Associate
- Rosemary De La Torre, Administrative Assistant
- Seewan Eng, Research Associate
- Sarah Feldman, Senior Research Associate
- Nikola Filby, Director, Innovation Studies
- Pamela Fong, Research Associate
- Eric Haas, Senior Research Associate
- Tracy Huebner, Senior Research Asociate
- Holly Jacobson, Director, CFTL
- Laura Jaeger, Research Associate
- Su Jin Jez, Research Associate
- Melissa Josue, Administrative Assistant
- Stacey Kyle, Research Associate
- Meg Livingston Asensio, Director of Education Research Dissemination
- Miriam Maya, Research Assistant
- Aruna Mehra, Financial Analyst
- Kacey O Kelly, DWW Documents Coordinator
- Katie Ranftle, Program Assistant
- John Sine, Administrative Assistant
- Kelly Stuart, DWW Director of Dissemination
- Andrea Venezia, Project Director
- Patsy Wilkes, Project Administrator
Resources related to this program:
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