JPRC violence prevention experts discuss their new tool, the Violence Prevention Navigation Framework, to help communities address violence.
The resources in this Spotlight are aimed at educators in rural communities, supporting rural science teachers, considering 4-day school weeks in one rural community; and a podcast that focuses on the transformation of a small rural school district that’s gotten attention from education leaders all around the world.
A veteran science teacher is preparing her students for 21st-century careers grounded in data science by using what she learned through WestEd’s Data Fluency: Making Sense of Data in STEM professional learning course.
The resources in this Spotlight reflect an admiration for the extraordinary things teachers do on behalf of their students and communities every day. Educators can de-stress after tough days with the self-help resources at the Virtual Be Well Space, learn how small work-style tweaks pay off in greater calm and resilience in the classroom, and access information about efforts to increase teachers’ compensation.
In this episode of the Leading Voices podcast, host Grace Westermann talks with Monica Mathur-Kalluri, Project Director within WestEd’s Early Childhood Intervention, Mental Health, and Inclusion team, about the challenges in the early childhood field and ways to improve the field for early childhood practitioners, specifically for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) practitioners.
Dana Grayson has been named director of WestEd’s teacher workforce team.