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Episode 23: How Education Leaders Can Reduce Administrative Burden and Reclaim Staff Time
Every reporting requirement is intended to serve a purpose, but is each one delivering value? In this episode, Kelsey Krausen, Director of Education Finance at WestEd, shares how education leaders can separate meaningful data reporting from burdensome paperwork and reclaim more staff time to focus on students.

Stay Interviews: A Proactive Strategy for Strengthening Teacher Retention
Stay interviews are simple in concept and powerful in practice. Learn how states are using them to understand what helps teachers thrive, what barriers they face, and what encourages them to continue growing in the profession.

What’s Working to Grow the Teacher Workforce: Insights on Pathways, Licensure, and Bilingual Staffing
Explore how states and colleges are tackling teacher shortages and diversity gaps through innovative pathways, licensure reforms, and bilingual workforce strategies through key insights from recent WestEd research.

The NAESP Foundation and WestEd Launch Principal Evaluation Research and Policy Initiative
With funding from The Wallace Foundation, WestEd and the NAESP Foundation are launching two national projects to modernize how school principals are evaluated.

Rethinking Accountability, Attendance, and Funding in Uncertain Times
Explore how rethinking accountability, attendance, and funding systems can reduce barriers and better support student success in this spotlight blog.

Moving PLCs From Planning to Learning: The VITAL Approach
Learn how school leaders can move PLCs from planning to learning-focused collaboration using WestEd’s VITAL framework and practical strategies.

How One Principal Is Turning Reflection Into Impact With WestEd’s Leadership Playbook
In this Q&A, Ayele Dodoo, Director of Education Leadership at WestEd, and Anakonia Matsumoto, principal at Hawthorne Math and Science Academy, discuss what becomes possible when principals have structured time to engage in self-reflection and deepen their leadership practice.

Six Tennessee School Districts Work Together to Advance Science Education
This fall, the state of Tennessee is shifting to rigorous new learning goals, the Tennessee Academic Standards for Science, that will raise the bar for…

Inside One District’s Effort to Strengthen School and Central Office Collaboration: Q&A With Kathy Hinz and Lauryn Fullerton
Learn how Crystal Lake District 47 used WestEd’s Leadership Playbook to build leadership capacity, strengthen trust, and support systemwide improvement.

Turning Research Into Results: WestEd Experts Share Insights on Educational Excellence
In this Spotlight blog, learn how WestEd supports education and local government leaders through community-driven evaluation, research–practice partnerships, and data-informed strategies.
