October Focus: Caring Environments for Students and Teachers
Access resources designed to help educators create positive, safe, and comfortable environments for students and teachers.
Addressing the Talent Problem — Recruiting and Retaining Effective Educators for All Schools: Special Panel Discussion
In a special panel discussion, education practitioners and experts will showcase effective talent retention strategies linked to rapid school improvement.
Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement Fall Webinar Series. Register today.
Join us for a webinar series designed to showcase best practices, tools, and resources that help you drive improvement in your state, district, and school.
September Focus: Literacy Across Content Areas
In this post, we introduce the work of three language and literacy initiatives – Reading Apprenticeship, Quality Teaching for English Learners, and Leading with Learning, and offer a variety of tools and resources to inform your practice.
Cindy Litman and Cynthia Greenleaf Receive Reading Research Quarterly Award
Congratulations to WestEd’s Cindy Litman and Cynthia Greenleaf, whose article “Argumentation Tasks in Secondary English Language Arts, History, and Science: Variations in Instructional Focus and Inquiry Space” received the Reading Research Quarterly Award as one of the journal's top downloaded recent papers.
How Community Colleges Take a Regional Approach to Guided Pathways
In California, the leadership of the San Diego and Imperial Counties Community Colleges Association has come together to work on a common initiative, serving as a model for large-scale institutional reform.
Creating New Futures for Newcomers: Lessons from Five Schools That Serve K–12 Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylees
This report highlights "bright spots," schools that are using promising and effective strategies for supporting newcomer students in K–12 classrooms.
High School Students' Perceptions of Police Vary by Student Race and Ethnicity: New Research Findings
Learn how high school students in California schools perceive school-based law enforcement and police in their communities.
Are Metal Detectors Effective at Making Schools Safer?
This new research brief summarizes what’s known about metal detectors in schools and in other settings, including prevalence, effectiveness, cost, and the potential impact on students and learning environments.
Investing in Science Teacher Leadership: Strategies and Impacts in the NGSS Early Implementers Initiative
This evaluation report explains how the NGSS Early Implementers Initiative prepared teachers for leadership in NGSS teaching, including how it created a culture of collaboration that produced change agents for science education and NGSS implementation.