Research & Evaluation
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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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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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Moving Toward Instructional Coherence: How Four Popular Student-Centered Approaches Deepen Identity, Agency, Equity, and Community
This paper helps educators consider ways to strengthen their practices in simultaneously implementing formative assessment, deeper learning, culturally responsive and sustaining education, and personalized learning.
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Evaluation of the Kansas City Scholars Program: Year 5 Report
WestEd evaluates the Kansas City Scholars Program in its fifth year of operation. This report explores the characteristics of students participating in the KC Scholars program and to what extent that applicant pools and awardee cohorts have changed over time.
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Assessing Community Needs: Strategies for Charter Schools and Authorizers
As part of a body of work that focuses on the role of community needs and interests in charter authorizing, this brief provides guidance to
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Instructional Equity and Respect for Diversity in Schools: Staff Perceptions Vary by Race/Ethnicity and by Role
This brief summarizes secondary staff responses to the California School Staff Survey in 2017/18 and 2018/19 in relation to their perceptions of instructional equity and respect for diversity in their schools.
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What a Systematic Review of 32 Evaluations Says About the Impact of School-Based Law Enforcement
The WestEd Justice and Prevention Research Center, in collaboration with Professor Ben Fisher of Florida State University, conducted a systematic review of research on the effects of school policing on safety, perceptions, and academic outcomes.
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Principal Retention Patterns in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah
This REL West study of principal retention rates aims to help leaders in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah better understand principal retention patterns in their state and enable statewide leadership support initiatives to identify areas where support can be most effective.
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Improving Coordination and Access to Comprehensive School-Based Mental Health Services in California
This report provides data to help leaders make informed decisions about how resources should be allocated and how technical assistance should be designed to effectively support mental health services for students.
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What California Teachers Say About Their Instructional Materials For English Learner Students: New Data and Insights
This CALE knowledge brief summarizes California findings from a nationwide survey on teachers’ perceptions of their instructional materials for English learner students. It includes considerations for improvements in instructional materials and developing policies and professional learning systems.
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