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Region 13 Comprehensive Center

Building State Capacity to Address Complex Educational Challenges

Partnering with Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), New Mexico, and Oklahoma to identify, implement, and sustain evidence-based practices to close opportunity gaps and improve outcomes for every learner.

Overview

The Region 13 Comprehensive Center (R13CC) led by WestEd is part of the national Comprehensive Center Network (CC Network) and provides capacity-building technical assistance, content expertise, and other services to effectively support state education agencies (SEAs) and their regional and local constituents in the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Staff at R13CC provide individualized state support to design and implement priority goals informed by research and evidence-based practices and facilitate collaboration among state and local education agencies and with other federally funded technical assistance centers in the national network.

The R13CC, in partnership with SEAs, also offers professional learning opportunities for local education agencies (LEAs), tribal leaders, education agencies, and educators and supports the SEA in community engagement and consultation activities.

A key focus of R13CC work is strengthening SEA organizational capacity through system design, process improvement, and change management to increase and sustain organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Project work has centered on state priorities that address student-centered needs, particularly multilingual and English Learners and Native students; supporting educator growth and development and increasing the educator workforce; and strategic resource planning for the selection and use of evidence-based practices. Regional work in virtual settings and communities of practice has provided SEAs and LEAs with opportunities to communicate, collaborate, and learn from each other in addressing shared issues and challenges.

HUMAN CAPACITY

Featured Project: BIE Tiered School Leadership Support

ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY

Featured Project: New Mexico’s Strategic Use of ARP Funds

HUMAN CAPACITY

Featured Project: New Mexico Practitioners Guide for Serving EL w/ Disabilities and follow-up training for implementation

Building Capacity to Improve Education

The Region 13 Comprehensive Center, led by WestEd, supports state education agencies and their constituents in the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), New Mexico, and Oklahoma through capacity-building technical assistance grounded in evidence.

Explore Our Work

Region 13: New Mexico, Oklahoma

The presentations were compelling and visually stunning! All presenters effectively captivated the audience. Well done!”

Surveyed Participant

“The time with my team was extremely valuable. Being able to discuss topics in real time helped us prepare for our orientation. Great use of time. Strongly recommend school leaders bring a team.”

Surveyed Participant

“Great background information provided by the Region 13 Comp Center team about our indigenous students and their perspective. I think this is valuable especially for those administrators who have never taught on Native lands. The educational experience is very different.”

Surveyed Participant

“R13CC did an excellent job of preparing us to work with the LEAs. I haven’t had that before in 31 years. The training gives facilitators an opportunity to have a voice and gives LEAs confidence in the coaches they have.”

NM Technical Assistance Team member

Our Leadership

Steve Canavero

Steve Canavero

Project Director

Robert Salley

Robert Salley

Associate Project Director

Contact Us

The content of this webpage was developed under a grant from the Department of Education through the Office of Program and Grantee Support Services (PGSS) within the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), by the Region 13 Comprehensive Center at WestEd under Award #S283B190057. This contains resources that are provided for the reader’s convenience. These materials may contain the views and recommendations of various subject matter experts as well as hypertext links, contact addresses, and websites to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. The U.S. Department of Education does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any outside information included in these materials. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the U.S. Department of Education. No official endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education of any product, commodity, service, enterprise, curriculum, or program of instruction mentioned in this document is intended or should be inferred.