Regional Comprehensive Centers 2, 13, 15

Exciting news! WestEd has been selected to lead the Region 14 Comprehensive Center (R14CC), which the U.S. Department of Education has dedicated to solely serving the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). The R14CC will support the bureau itself and the 183 Tribally controlled, BIE-operated, and Navajo schools it serves: this means we have the honor of working together to better meet the needs of 42,000 Indigenous students across 64 reservations and 23 states. WestEd has provided support and services to the BIE since 2019. “We are pleased and honored to lead the 2024–29 Region 14 Comprehensive Center. This arc of work: to support so many Indigenous cultures and philosophies over thousands of miles with research, data, resources, and assistance, stands to not only benefit generations of Native students but to advance sovereign tribal Nations themselves," said Robert Salley, who will serve as the director of the Region 14 Comprehensive Center. For more about this news, visit: https://bit.ly/4eEsZn8 #StateEducationAgency #IndigenousEducation #StateLeaders

To our state, regional, and local educational agency friends: It has been our great honor and privilege to serve you during the 2019-24 Regional Comprehensive Centers cycle. Comprehensive Center Network National Comprehensive Center

A "Community" of #AmericanIndian Education Directors across Western state educational agencies formed in 2020 and has been meeting virtually each month since. Learn about the relationships, resources, and reforms that have resulted - in this #R15CC impact story: https://lnkd.in/gx2BPXPA National Comprehensive Center Comprehensive Center Network WestEd #NativeEducation #NativeAmerican

Need strategies to entice rural principals to stay in position? Look no further than this new brief - The Rural School Principal: Opportunities and Challenges - emerging from the Region 15 Comprehensive Center's Rural Community of Practice, in which rural education leaders in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah gather regularly to share insights, experiences, and recommendations: https://lnkd.in/ghAc_gQY #RuralEducation #RuralSchools #PrincipalRetention #R15CC WestEd National Comprehensive Center Comprehensive Center Network #RuralK12

Discover how the Nevada Department of Education developed a menu of rigorous interventions to ensure sustainable growth and improvement for students in its Comprehensive Support and Improvement schools. "Co-Creating a Menu of More Rigorous Interventions to Drive Nevada School Improvement" is available at https://lnkd.in/dTDrxXqm #R15CC WestEd National Comprehensive Center Comprehensive Center Network #MoreRigorousOptions #MoreRigorousInterventions #ComprehensiveSupportandImprovement #CSI #MRI #ESSA #SchoolImprovement

Now available: "Kindergarten Entry Assessments: An Examination of Best Practices, National Trends, and Recommendations." This scan by the Region 15 Comprehensive Center explores national trends in Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA) adoption across states, and delivers recommendations for policymakers to consider when selecting and implementing a high-quality KEA system. https://lnkd.in/gJVM-Rbh Learn how KEAs are being used to tailor instruction, identify individual strengths and needs, foster teacher–parent partnerships, and monitor student progress. For background on how this KEA scan emerged from #R15CC's partnership with the Nevada Department of Education, see: "Moving Toward Quality PreK Access for All, States Build Out Key Infrastructures" -- https://lnkd.in/gcVe5haW #K12Research #SEA #Kindergarten #PreK WestEd #ReadinessToLearn National Comprehensive Center Comprehensive Center Network

Learn how to build culturally responsive and sustaining education (CRSE) into math classrooms, in new briefs created at the request of school leaders across New York State and curated by the Region 2 Comprehensive Center. Research shows that attention to CRSE can help foster equitable and inclusive mathematics learning environments and enhance motivation and academic success. https://lnkd.in/g7r93_ar #R2CC WestEd National Comprehensive Center Comprehensive Center Network New York State Education Department #MathInstruction #MathTeaching #MathTeacher #CRSE National Council of Teachers of Mathematics - NCTM

Now available: Two Key Ways States Can Reorient K–12 Systems to Provide Students With Essential Oral Opportunities to Learn. 1) Learn about how the Nevada Department of Education prioritized teacher education that enables a functional approach to language instruction, and 2) Access formative assessment processes from the National Research & Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners that allow evidence of oral progress to drive improvements to instruction. https://lnkd.in/gmYvhq2G This piece is the final in our #R2CC-#R13CC-#R15CC series on emerging state and district systemic trends to improve education for #EnglishLearners. National Comprehensive Center Comprehensive Center Network #EnglishLanguageLearners WestEd #MultilingualLearners #Oracy #CriticalDialogicInteraction #QualityInteractions #FormativeAssessment #ELRDCenter

New Mexico adopts a statewide English Learner Disability Identification Guide, an SEA move that is increasingly trending nationwide to better indicate and serve #DuallyIdentified students. Learn more and access the guide itself: https://lnkd.in/dsjT3eHX #R13CC National Comprehensive Center Comprehensive Center Network #EnglishLanguageLearners WestEd #MultilingualLearners #SpecialEducation New Mexico Public Education Department

California launches new tool to guide English Learner reclassification - the next piece in our series on emerging state and district systemic trends to improve education for #EnglishLearners: https://lnkd.in/gpuHDXZ2 #R15CC National Comprehensive Center Comprehensive Center Network WestEd #EnglishLanguageLearners #MultilingualLearners #Reclassification California Department of Education