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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.
Apprenticing Students to Read and Write in the Disciplines
This Leading Together webinar introduces Reading Apprenticeship and Writing Apprenticeship, which take an integrated, research-based approach to disciplinary literacy. Participants will explore how instruction can center students’…
Language at Work: Building Reading Comprehension Through Writing
In this 30-minute webinar, we explore how writing about content, in students’ own voices and in the language of each discipline, can build and hone the skills that complex texts demand. We offer practical strategies for K–12 classrooms and content areas throughout.
Leading With Urgency: 5 Levers for Effective School Improvement and Lasting Change
Part of WestEd’s VITAL Education Series, Leading With Urgency introduces a practical, field-tested framework designed to help K–12 principals navigate the complex challenges of leading meaningful school change efforts.
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.
Evaluation of the Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum English Language Development Modules: Grades 6 Through 8
This resource presents WestEd’s evaluation of the Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum English Language Development modules, finding that the curriculum was implemented with fidelity and positively impacted English Learner students’ achievement in grades 6 through 8.
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.
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.
Burkholder Academy of Science Progress and Impact 2024—25
This resource examines the first-year progress and impact of the Burkholder Academy of Environmental Science, a Henderson, Nevada 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.
