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Building Networks, Sharing Expertise: How Technology-Mediated Lesson Study Connects Rural Science Teachers
This WestEd brief shows how technology-mediated lesson study builds professional networks among rural science teachers, backed by longitudinal network analysis.
Creating Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems That Provide Useful Information Webinar Series
This four-part webinar series is designed to help leaders maximize the potential of their education-based data systems.
Charter School Authorizer Practices and Evaluations in Florida: A Report Funded by the MIT Blueprint Charter Research Collaborative
This WestEd report examines whether Florida’s charter school application evaluation instrument predicts long-term school outcomes, finding stronger links to closure risk than accountability performance.
Evaluation of Outcomes Based Contracting (OBC): Final Report
This WestEd evaluation of Outcomes Based Contracting across eight early-adopter districts examines its impact, implementation, and drivers of success.
How Policy and Pedagogy Influence STEM Teachers’ GenAI Use: Findings From a 2025 Exploratory Study From the AmplifyGAIN Center
This WestEd report examines how math and science teachers use generative AI in their work, offering STEM educators and education leaders context-grounded insights to inform AI policy, professional learning, and practice.
What Is The Statewide BHSSA Evaluation?
This WestEd resource explains the statewide BHSSA evaluation, a multi-year study assessing how California’s school behavioral health investments are strengthening student wellness systems across county and local education agency partnerships.
Youth Reimagining School Behavioral Health Systems
This WestEd resource describes the Youth Engagement Cohort model, a student-centered process in which young people examine data, share perspectives, and present recommendations to shape California’s school behavioral health systems under the BHSSA.
Making Dual Enrollment Work: Solving the Access–Success Paradox With OUSD’s Point Person Model
This report examines how Oakland Unified School District’s dual enrollment point person model operates, what infrastructure it requires, and what it reveals about making open-access dual enrollment work.
What Educational Research Looked Like When Scores Were Rising: A Comparative Analysis of AERA Conference Programs, 2005–2014 and 2022–2025
A research brief that responds to a widely covered critique claiming educational research has become disconnected from classroom realities. Using an analysis of AERA conference programs across two distinct eras, the paper argues that, contrary to the critique, research addressing teacher-identified concerns has largely increased over time, not decreased.
Carroll M. Johnston Academy Progress and Impact in 2024—25
This report examines the first-year progress and impact of the Carroll M. Johnston STEM Academy, a North Las Vegas middle school that reopened in August 2024 as a new magnet school after receiving Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP) funding from the U.S. Department of Education through Clark County School District.
