Research & Evaluation
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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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It’s About TIME: A Rigorous New Process for Selecting Instructional Materials for Science
This report provides an overview of the California Next Generation Science Standards (CA NGSS) Toolkit for Instructional Materials Evaluation (TIME) process, participants’ perceptions of TIME, a detailed description of statewide TIME trainings, challenges to implementing the TIME process, and recommendations for adoption committees supporting districts’ NGSS implementation.
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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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What California Teachers Are Saying About Their Instructional Materials for English Learner Students
This brief summarizes survey data about California teachers’ views of and experience with their instructional materials in relation to their English learners.
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Healthy U: A Cost Analysis of Implementing a Sexual Health Education App in Juvenile Justice Facilities
This brief shares the results of an analysis of the costs to deliver Healthy U, a sexual health education app, to youths in juvenile justice facilities.
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Sound Basic Education for All: An Action Plan for North Carolina
This action plan provides recommendations for the state of North Carolina's efforts to improve its education system to benefit all learners.
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Environmental Instruction Catalyzes Standards-Based Science Teaching: How Environmental Literacy Aids Implementation of the NGSS
NGSS Early Implementers is a six-year initiative created to help eight California school districts and two charter management organizations implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The initiative has provided professional learning about environmental literacy to prompt and support its synergy with the NGSS.
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Understanding the Experiences of LGBTQ Students in California
This report describes the school experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning or queer students. It draws on two years of California Healthy Kids Survey data from approximately 800,000 secondary school students and their perceptions of school supports, school safety, school engagement, academic performance, and mental health.
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Corequisite Remediation in Mathematics: A Review of First-Year Implementation and Outcomes of Quantway and Statway
This report illustrates how Carnegie Math Pathways corequisite courses, Quantway College with Corequisite and Statway College with Corequisite, provide an effective alternative to traditional remediation.
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Collaborative Lesson Studies: Powerful Professional Learning for Implementing the Next Generation Science Standards
NGSS Early Implementers is a six-year initiative created to help eight California school districts and two charter management organizations implement the Next Generation Science Standards. This report explores how Teaching Learning Collaboratives (or lesson studies) served as the cornerstone professional learning activity for teacher leaders.
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From the Brink of Closure: Key Factors in One Charter School's Successful Turnaround
Written intentionally for school leaders, board members, and charter school authorizers, this report and accompanying video share Perry Street Preparatory Public Charter School's story of comprehensive improvement and describes the necessary conditions for turnaround success.
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Hero Elementary Playlist Pilot Study in After-school Programs
WestEd conducted a pilot study using five playlists to understand the feasibility of implementing the playlists in after-school programs and to discuss the potential impact of the playlists on student science learning. This report describes the study.
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A Cross-State Evaluation of MIND Research Institute’s ST Math Program and Math Performance
This report presents the findings from an assessment of mathematics outcomes in elementary schools across multiple states that were provided with the ST Math program.
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Roadblocks and Routes: Professional Development in Math in Common Districts
This report describes some of the more common roadblocks that Math in Common districts faced in their early years of CCSS-M implementation, along with the routes that the districts took around those roadblocks in order to support teacher and student learning.
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What Accelerates a Community of Practice? Inflection Points That Changed the Course of the Math in Common Initiative
This report describes the trajectory of the Math in Common (MiC) Community of Practice (CoP), including both its missteps and its successes, in the hope that designers or participants of other formal or informal CoPs can leverage the MiC experience and make progress more quickly in their own collaborations.
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