Research & Evaluation
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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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Supporting California’s Children Through a Whole Child Approach: A Field Guide for Creating Integrated, School-Based Systems of Care
This report offers guidance for funding and implementing one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving systems of care in California.
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Clark County School District Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP) Spring 2022 Interim Evaluation Summary Report
This report adds additional findings to the evidence of promise study for Clark County School District’s (CCSD) 2017 Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP) grant. WestEd collected data from CCSD to identify statistically significant or substantively important effects of the MSAP-funded schools on student outcomes.
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Teaching K–8 Science Through Distance Learning: Specific Challenges and Successes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This brief describes teaching NGSS-aligned K–8 science through distance learning and presents challenges and successes as well as research-based recommendations to advance equitable learning outcomes.
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Teaching K–8 Science Through Distance Learning: Overall Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This brief summarizes survey data relating to how the pandemic has affected high-quality, student-centered science education and presents recommendations to promote equitable learning outcomes for all students.
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Learning From Young People About How Safe and Supportive Conditions at Home Can Inform School Climate
This inquiry guide describes student perspectives on safe and supportive conditions at home, how these insights can inform school climate, and best practices for educators to center student voices.
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Connecting the Brain and Body to Support Equity Work: A Toolkit for Education Leaders
This toolkit offers evidence-based information on the brain and behavior in the context of leadership and educational equity work, including specific strategies to guide leaders in recognizing and responding to physical, social, and emotional needs in the education agency context.
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Serving the Whole Person: Safety Through Collaboration: Ohio’s Comprehensive Approach to Student Well-Being
This piece summarizes the experience of an Ohio-based team in using the Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety (CISELSS) SEA guide and share key insights that may benefit other SEA leaders as they consider their own efforts to improve the alignment and coherence of their whole-person or whole-child initiatives.
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Promoting Attendance
This REL West collection of resources helps schools and districts use data to design and carry out strategies to reduce chronic absence—from building community awareness to providing intensive one-on-one support for students and families.
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Supporting Young English Learners at Home: Family and Caregiver Activities
These simple and fun activities help families and caregivers leverage cultural and linguistic assets and knowledge to strengthen language development at home for young English Learners.
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Joyful Reading, Writing, and Creative Expression with Young Children
These REL West resources share practical strategies for teachers to promote joyful learning experiences—through interactive reading, creative writing, and the arts—for children in preschool through the early elementary grades.
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Supporting School Principals: What do the experts say?
Explore this series of free videos from REL West that describe how states and districts can support and develop principals.
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Supporting Integrated English Learner Student Instruction
This guide is designed to help district and school site leaders assess the professional learning needs of elementary school teachers to implement research-based recommendations for the instruction of English learner students. -
Special Issues Brief: How Region 2 States Are Leveraging Innovative Strategies to Address Critical Shortages of Education Personnel
This brief provides an overview of the education workforce shortage trends both nationally and in Region 2 states (Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island). The brief also highlights examples of how Region 2 states are innovating to address these shortages and provides additional considerations for strategies to address shortages in both the short term and the long term.
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