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Summer professional learning blog post

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Summer Professional Development for Your State, District, or School: Key Considerations

Join WestEd to explore expert insights and practical strategies for strengthening educator development through impactful summer professional learning.
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Advancing AI in Education

WestEd explores how AI literacy and a new executive order are shaping a human-centered future for generative AI in education through innovation, investment, and collaboration.
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Helping Teachers Navigate State Assessments Beyond “Teaching to the Test”

Learn more about how understanding the purpose and design of state summative assessments and targeted professional development can help teachers better support student learning and outcomes.
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Reimagining Open House: Connecting Families, Inspiring Learning, Building Community

Explore how schools can transform Open Houses into powerful, collaborative family engagement events that build community, foster trust, and support student success.

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Partnering for Peace: A Q&A With the Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania and the Director of Justice TA at WestEd

In this Q&A, PCCD Chairman Lt. Governor Austin Davis and WestEd’s Director of Justice Technical Assistance, Lori Toscano, discuss the PA Peace Alliance’s impact on community violence intervention, the importance of state investment, and the power of cross-sector collaboration.
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Enhancing Systems and Outcomes Through Research and Evaluation 

This Spotlight blog explores data-driven decision-making across the justice and education systems, as well as WestEd's tools and research to evaluate interventions and address disparities, particularly for vulnerable populations like justice-involved youths and students in foster care.
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Three Resources to Support Early Childhood Educators and Caregivers

This spotlight blog explores how WestEd supports early childhood educators through evidence-based professional development, mental health consultation, and early intervention services.
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Updating Performance Frameworks for Nevada Public Charter Schools

When the Nevada State Public Charter School Authority set out to update its performance frameworks, it didn’t just revise—it reimagined. With support from WestEd and community input, the state a created a fairer, more effective accountability system to ensure that over 60,000 students in over 80 charter campuses receive a high-quality education. Learn how collaboration shaped this effort.
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Effective Strategies to Improve Secondary Students’ Math and Language Skills 

Researchers from the National Research and Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners report that teaching English alongside math through the RAMP-UP curriculum may be the key to accelerating academic success for multilingual students in alignment with curriculum research done by WestEd’s Dr. Haiwen Chu and Leslie Hamburger.