New Releases
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Redefining Approaches for Engaging English Learners With Mathematical Ideas
The brief aims to help educators ensure that English Learners can participate fully in mathematical learning.
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Reimagining School Safety: A Guide for Schools and Communities
This interactive guide provides educators, school leaders, and district administrators with mindsets, strategies, and grounded examples of what is possible by reimagining school safety.
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Leading Voices Podcast Series Episode 2: Amplifying Student Agency with Formative Assessment
In this episode, we hear from Nancy Gerzon, Franchesca Warren, and Cali Kaminsky, all experts with WestEd’s Formative Insights. Formative Insights works with schools and districts to amplify student agency and identity through formative assessment policies and practices.
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Evaluation of Beast Academy
This brief reports on an independent evaluation of the efficacy of the Beast Academy program serving gifted, talented, and historically marginalized students in Mankato Area Public Schools, Minnesota.
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Who is in Charge of English Learner Services? Lessons Learned from a National Co-Teaching and Collaboration Study
Researchers from the National Research & Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners explain insights from district leaders’ responses in an online survey on the prevalence of co-teaching and collaboration models.
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Working Respectfully with Indigenous Communities Around Data and Evidence: A Resource for State Education Agencies
This resource is intended to support state education agency (SEA) staff members as they build partnerships with tribal leaders to improve educational outcomes for Native students through the use of data, research, and evidence.
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Self-Affirmation: A Powerful Tool for Addressing Stereotype Threat
This infographic illustrates how self-affirmation, an intervention aimed at reducing stereotype threat, can significantly mitigate its effects on academic outcomes, and generate significant improvements in grade point average (GPA) and test scores.
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Improving Financial Literacy Education
This brief aims to support state education agencies, local education agencies, and other education leaders interested in implementing financial literacy education, describes relevant considerations, and provides national and regional contexts.
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A Reflective Process for Working Through Complex Restorative Practice Dilemmas in Schools
This brief offers a reflective process for individuals and teams to use when facing a complex restorative practices dilemma at their school or district.
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Evaluation of the Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum With Respect to English Language Development
This report describes an evaluation and its findings focused on the implementation and outcomes of Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum modules for English language development instruction (ERWC-ELD) in grades 9-12 in California.
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Restorative Practices Beyond the Classroom: Integrating Circle Practices Into Existing School Processes
The brief describes the need and rationale for expanding the use of restorative practices in contexts outside of the classroom, including IEP/504 meetings, staff meetings, committee meetings, and online spaces.
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Now We Know Our Regional Might: Advancing Equity and Economic Mobility through Career Education
This report describes the efforts of the San Diego and Imperial Counties Community Colleges Regional Consortium to improve students’ early community college experiences and lead more students to family-sustaining jobs.
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Equitable Environments and Relationships: Cultivating Strong Tier 1 Practices in Multi-Tiered System of Supports
This archived webinar can help educators cultivate and model strong Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) tier-one practices. Tier 1 of the MTSS framework encompasses core instructions and primary interventions that help to create a supportive atmosphere and build positive relationships between staff and students.
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EdTech Partnerships: Key Findings 2021–2022 Report
The 2021 SBIR Phase I projects in this document showcase the types of EdTech partnerships that WestEd has established and the impact that each project has on promoting success for every learner.
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Strategic Use of One-Time State and Federal Resources
Interactive series of virtual learning sessions focused on how to strategically use the one time-funds in combination with ongoing resources to accelerate equitable learning opportunities and supports.
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