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Improving Attendance Through Human-Centered Leadership Practices
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.

PITC and Early Head Start: Aligned in Purpose and Practice
In this recorded webinar, discover how the Program for Infant/Toddler Care’s six program policies are designed to promote high-quality relationship-based care that supports healthy development, strengthens families, and advances equity for infants and toddlers.

School-Based Behavioral Threat Assessment: A Review and Practical Considerations
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.

Reading to Learn: A 7-Step Framework for Optimizing Comprehension, Pre-K–12
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.

California Healthy Kids Survey: 10 Key Indicators to Strengthen Community School Efforts
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.

Finding the Golden Thread for Multilingual Learners With Disabilities
In this recorded webinar, WestEd experts explore how cross-disciplinary collaboration is the golden thread that supports educators in confidently creating cohesive instruction that expands students’ English language skills.

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.

Understanding and Supporting Your Child’s Math Development: Grades 4—8
Support your child’s math development in Grades 4–8 with clear milestones and strategies to foster effective collaboration between families and teachers.

Understanding and Supporting Your Child’s Math Development: Grades PreK—3
Support your child’s math development in Grades preK–3 with clear milestones and strategies to foster effective collaboration between families and teachers.

Bridging Science and Engineering for Every Learner
Explore research-backed, ready-to-use strategies for creating inclusive STEM experiences for elementary and middle school learners.
