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This brief from WestEd’s Western Educational Equity Assistance Center outlines human-centered leadership practices at the individual, collective, and systems levels to improve student attendance.

This WestEd brief introduces school-based behavioral threat assessment (BTA) as a prevention-focused approach to school safety, reviewing leading models, evidence, and key practices for district leaders and threat assessment teams.

Part of WestEd’s VITAL Education Series, this practical book provides a research-based, 7-step process to develop reading comprehension skills across all content areas and grade levels.

This resource identifies 10 California Healthy Kids Survey indicators that community schools can use to monitor student wellbeing, belonging, and engagement across the California Community Schools Framework.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Explore this comparative report on Colorado and Washington strategies for supporting highly mobile youth, highlighting policies, collaboration models, and recommendations to improve educational stability.

These case studies from Los Angeles County Office of Education’s Community Schools Initiative highlight promising practices and real-world examples of the California Community Schools Framework in action.