National Centers
WestEd works with diverse partners—including state education agencies, local education agencies, schools, institutions of higher education, and social service agencies—to expand capacity and improve outcomes for learners.
WestEd operates two types of federally funded centers:
- Support centers provide customized local and state consulting services designed to build capacity, facilitate communications, and transfer knowledge and expertise in order to encourage positive, systemwide outcomes across many domains. These services are provided free of charge.
- Research and development centers seek to develop research-based solutions that overcome barriers to student success, developing, testing them, and refining them along the way in collaboration with practitioners.Resulting findings, actionable tools, and guidance are disseminated to the field.