Schools, Districts, & State Education Systems
Federal Support for Education Innovation Through the Small Business Innovation Research Program
Finding a Path Toward Equity: What States Can Learn from the Transformation of California’s...
Including Recently Arrived English Learners in State Accountability Systems: An Empirical...
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Lesson Planning for English Learners in Distance Learning Environments: Elementary Educators
In this archived webinar, the presenters demonstrate how elementary educators can adapt and implement lessons in a distance learning environment to support English learners and language development.
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Keep Teaching Science! Successful Strategies to Adapt K–12 Science Experiences for Distance Learning
This report from the NextGenScience team highlights strategies and hands-on examples of effective and equitable adaptations for science teaching and learning at a distance.
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Los Angeles County Office of Education Performance Task Development Project: A Case Study
This report provides insight into the Performance Task Development Project (PTDP), a partnership between the Building Educator Assessment Literacy (at WestEd) and the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE), and its work with the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE).
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Six Years of Scaling Up: Districtwide Implementations of the Next Generation Science Standards
This 12th report in WestEd's NGSS Early Implementers evaluation series for policymakers, school and district administrators, and professional learning specialists describes the Initiative’s scale-up in its later years to reach all K–8 science teachers.
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Improving California’s Teacher Data System to Better Inform Decisions
This knowledge brief summarizes recent findings on improving the access to, and the use of, teacher workforce data in California.
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Expanding California Districts’ Curriculum-Focused Professional Learning
This knowledge brief is part of a continuing series designed to inform California education leaders about new research findings on key state policy topics. This brief summarizes recent findings on effective teacher professional learning.
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How Are Suspensions Related to School Climate in California Middle Schools?
This report explores how recent changes in suspension rates at middle schools in California relate to changes in school climate. It uses the state’s data on out-of-school suspension rates and California Healthy Kids Survey data on school climate. Overall, the findings indicate that school climate improved most in schools that also experienced the greatest declines in out-of-school suspension rates. There was no evidence to support concerns that reducing suspension rates would also reduce school safety.
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Science Learning During Covid-19 and Beyond
In this archived webinar, researchers from WestEd shared preliminary findings from their survey examining the effects of sudden school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on K–8 science instruction
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From Acquisition to Development: Reconceptualizing Educators’ Work with English Learners
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Diane Larsen-Freeman, Professor Emerita from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Teaching Disciplinary Literacies in Hard Times that Just Got Harder
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Meg Gebhard, Professor of Teacher Education and School Improvement at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Reconceptualizing the Role of Critical Dialogue in the Education of English Learners
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Amanda Kibler, Associate Professor and Teaching Program Chair at Oregon State University.
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Policy and Equity in the Education of English Learners: The Struggle Continues
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Magaly Lavadenz, Professor at Loyola Marymount University.
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Loosening The Reins: Evidence and Considerations for Lifting Restrictions on Resources for Schools
This brief offers critical moves state policymakers can make to find the right balance between state control versus more local control during an economic recession.
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Special Education Funding: Three Critical Moves State Policymakers Can Make to Maintain Funding and Bolster Performance
The brief guides policymakers to reaffirm the state’s commitment to educating students with disabilities, to use state policy to promote early intervention and to coordinate services, and to leverage flexibility in using federal and state special education funds.
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A Meaning-Oriented Model of Language for the Classroom
This recorded session features Aída Walqui, Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, in conversation with Beverly Derewianka, Emeritus Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
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