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How CAL-MSCS Communities of Practice Build Educator Capacity: Connecting CAL-MSCS Professional Learning Opportunities to Research on Effective Communities of Practice
This WestEd report describes how California’s CAL-MSCS Partnership uses three Communities of Practice in math, science, and computer science to build statewide educator capacity for grades 4 through 12.
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.
Launching a Network for Researchers and Practitioners to Tackle Challenges Together
Learn about WestEd’s Research–Practice Partnership Network and explore how long-term partnerships enable interest holders to cocreate evidence-based responses to real-world challenges.
Supporting Student Success Through Aligned and Coherent Systems
Learn how state and local agencies can align policies and partnerships to create coherent, collaborative systems that improve supports for students and families.
Teacher Compensation Collection
Explore this collection of blogs and resources that discuss causes of teacher shortages, low pay, and compensation challenges in K-12 education, plus solutions to improve salaries and retention.
Educator Preparation Program Affordability and Sustainability
Explore research, models, and strategies to make high-quality educator preparation programs more accessible and sustainable and support SEAs, LEAs, and higher education in building a stronger teacher workforce.
Amplifying Student Agency and Learning Through Formative Assessment
Explore the roles leaders, coaches, and teachers play that nurture student agency and build collaborative learning environments through daily formative assessment routines.
