How Cross-Sector Partnerships Use Data to Improve Rural Career Pathways
REL West supports cross-sector collaboratives to deepen their data-based decision-making practices to improve regional career pathways in California.
Supporting Students at a Distance: A Discussion with Two Rural School Psychologists on Challenges and Opportunities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
REL West staff spoke with school psychologists in rural California school districts to learn about how they adapted their services in the absence of in-person interactions.
Leading Literacy Across the Disciplines
Faced with the question, “How can we impact more secondary school students who are struggling readers?,” Washington County Public Schools decided to start small with cross-disciplinary literacy.
Culturally Affirming Care for Rural Students During the Pandemic: A Karuk Perspective
Maymi Preston-Donahue is a social worker on the Karuk tribal mental health team. Learn how she and the team put cultural affirmation at the center of their work with students.
Flagstaff High School: Supporting Students' College, Career, and Life Readiness During COVID-19
A growing team at Flagstaff High School is working to transform the school’s culture — and that of the district and community — to focus greater attention on career, college, and life readiness.
Reflections on Race and Policing, by an Interracial Couple of Researchers
WestEd’s Justice & Prevention Research Center conducts high-quality research to help guide decision-making to address challenges of crime, violence, injustice, and other societal problems. The Center’s Director, Anthony Petrosino, co-authored this article with his spouse, Professor Emerita, Dr. Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino, reflecting on race and policing from their unique perspectives as an interracial couple and as […]
Leading Formative Assessment in Dallas: Toward Student Agency and Academic Achievement
WestEd's Nancy Gerzon and Barbara Jones explore how the learning culture at one elementary school developed around formative assessment practices with great success.
Committed. Together. Moving Through COVID-19: Fostering Social, Emotional, and Mental Well-Being [Video]
WestEd’s Natalie Walrond addresses the kind of learning environment and relationships all students need for success when school buildings reopen.
Committed. Together. Moving Through COVID-19: Students with Disabilities [Video]
WestEd's Rorie Fitzpatrick recommends three actions state and local education agencies can take to support students with disabilities through school closures and the transition back to school settings.
“We’re All In This Together”: Carnegie Math Pathways Helps Educators Transition to Distance Learning Amid COVID-19
Carnegie Math Pathways helps its national network of math faculty with the abrupt transition to distance learning, as it prepares to launch online versions of all Pathways courses in fall 2020.