Free Resources
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Systems Change at WestEd: Six Guiding Principles
This brief defines systems change and describes the principles that guide systems-change work at WestEd, from collaborating to facilitate improvements within a particular system or across sectors for large-scale, cross-system change efforts.
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Strategies and Suggestions for Using the Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement Framework and Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge Systems
This guide, a supplement to the Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement framework and related CALL survey, helps guide school turnaround efforts and includes tribally informed, culturally considerate additions from Indigenous Knowledge Systems.
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Strategies and Suggestions for Using the Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement Framework
This guide, a supplement to the Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement framework and related CALL survey, suggests strategies and reflection questions to help guide school turnaround efforts.
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Identifying Students Closer to Their Qualifying Move Date by Utilizing an Interactive Enrollee Form
This brief in the Professional Learning Network (PLN) profiles series describes the continuous improvement work accomplished by the Merced County Office of Education Migrant Education Program to standardize a new enrollee form for consistent strategies in the identification process.
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Continuous Improvement Increases Child Counts and Reshapes the Meaning of Teamwork
This brief in the Professional Learning Network (PLN) profiles series describes the continuous improvement work accomplished by the San Joaquin County Office of Education Migrant Program to increase the number of referrals, increasing the possibility of more children qualified.
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Using Data to Revise a Change in Practice
This profile in the Professional Learning Network (PLN) series describes the continuous improvement work accomplished by the San Diego County Office of Education to identify families and youths closer to their date of arrival in the region.
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Using the Professional Learning Network to Develop Leading Practices for Identification and Recruitment in California
This brief in the Professional Learning Network (PLN) profiles series describes how staff from California’s Migrant Education Program subgrantees attend two years of a professional learning network to make progress on areas of focus specific to their own data.
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Maximizing Child Counts: A Collaborative Approach
This brief in the Professional Learning Network (PLN) profiles series describes a collaborative effort to maximize child counts to ensure that as many eligible children and youths as possible are enrolled in the MEP before the end of each performance period.
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Layered Training to Harness the Power of the Subsequent Qualifying Move
This brief in the Professional Learning Network (PLN) profiles series describes the continuous improvement work accomplished by the Kern County Office of Education Migrant Program to increase recruiters’ use of the subsequent qualifying move to establish eligibility for migratory children.
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Leading Voices Podcast Series Episode 11: The Critical Role of Early Intervention—A Conversation With Angela McGuire
In this episode of the Leading Voices podcast, host Danny Torres talks with Project Director Angela McGuire about the critical role of early intervention in improving outcomes for young children with disabilities and how state agency leaders can best support early intervention professionals in their work.
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Learning Exponential Functions With Immersive Virtual Reality: Outcomes of a Randomized Controlled Trial as Part of the Prisms NSF SBIR Phase II Project
This report shares results from a randomized controlled trial studying the impact of Prisms, a supplemental curricular resource for mathematics and science teachers that uses immersive virtual reality, on students’ engagement and algebra proficiencies.
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The North Dakota Personalized, Competency-Based Learning Initiative: Progress and Outcomes After 5 Years
This report summarizes WestEd’s evaluation of the implementation outcomes for districts participating in the The North Dakota Personalized, Competency-Based Learning Initiative. It also provides an analysis of learner outcomes and future implications.
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Artificial Intelligence Webinar Series, Session 1: Uncovering the Potential and Risks of AI in SEA Practices
In this first of three archived webinars sessions on artificial intelligence hosted by the Region 2, 13, and 15 Comprehensive Centers, subject matter experts provide an overview of AI recommendations and set the landscape for educational leaders.
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Artificial Intelligence Webinar Series, Session 3: Guiding Education Leaders Towards Safe and Equitable AI Implementation
The second session on artificial intelligence hosted by the Region 2, 13, and 15 Comprehensive Centers. This session helps state education agencies think about how to manage, operate, and implement an AI policy for safe, equitable, and effective AI use.
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Artificial Intelligence Webinar Series, Session 2: Developing a Cohesive and Comprehensive SEA Approach to AI
The second session on artificial intelligence hosted by the Region 2, 13, and 15 Comprehensive Centers. This session helps state education agencies think about how to manage, operate, and implement an AI policy for safe, equitable, and effective AI use.
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