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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.
Declining Enrollment in America’s Public Schools: How States Can Respond Strategically
This WestEd and Bellwether policy brief examines sustained K–12 enrollment decline and offers three recommendations to help state leaders align funding, build local capacity, and strengthen public confidence in public schools.
Improving American Indian Student Outcomes in Nevada
An impact story describing how the Western Educational Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC) at WestEd partnered with Nevada’s Office of Indian Education to develop the Plan to Improve Outcomes for American Indian Students in Nevada 2025–2030.
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.
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.
Supporting Schools Before Students Are at Risk: Early Warning Systems for Proactive Prevention
This paper explores the value of identifying early signs of distress in schools by examining leadership stability, staff management, culture, finances, and instructional programs.
Re-VITALizing Your Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Discover how Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) drive sustained instructional improvement by making teaching practice visible, embedding feedback into learning cycles, and strengthening collective expertise to boost student outcomes.
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.
