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A Message from CEO Glen Harvey Regarding COVID-19

We are exploring how best to continue providing important professional learning opportunities, technical assistance, and other supports during a period when social distancing is essential and when we cannot anticipate how long that period might last.

Improving STEM Teaching and Learning – Top Resources for Teachers and Leaders

This month we highlight strategies for student success in STEM subjects. Check out the following six tips and accompanying resources.

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Data-Driven Decision-Making: Stimulating Changes to Policy and Practice

WestEd’s Ellen Mandinach and Kim Schildkamp of University of Twente, Netherlands served as editors of a special issue of Studies in Educational Evaluation that brings together cutting-edge work on data-driven decision-making.

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Cynthia Greenleaf Receives Distinguished Scholars Award for Literacy Research

This award honors scholars who are members of the National Council on Research in Language and Literacy and whose work has made major contributions to language and literacy research.

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Responding to and Supporting the Needs of English Learner Students

Eight tips for creating better outcomes for students who are English learners.

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Staff from the WestEd Justice & Prevention Research Center Publish in Crime & Delinquency

This study examines the association between proximity of gun stores to schools and the carrying of guns by high school students.

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REL West and Parlier Unified School District Work Together to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism

Located in California’s rural Central Valley, Parlier Unified School District is committed to every student attending school every day during a regular school year. In partnership with WestEd’s Regional Educational Laboratory West (REL West), Parlier Unified School District is three years into a community-wide campaign to reduce chronic absence, and the district is achieving encouraging […]

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Announcing Spring and Summer Professional Learning Opportunities

Strengthen leadership, knowledge, and skills with research-informed professional development this summer.

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States Push to Improve Secondary Literacy Across All Subject Matters

Maryland is undertaking large-scale implementation of the Reading Apprenticeship model to improve literacy across the curriculum.

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Spotlight: Improving Outcomes for Young People with Disabilities

This month, WestEd focuses on how educators are working to improve outcomes for children, youth, and adults with disabilities.

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