This page offers resources produced under the 2019-24 Region 2 Comprehensive Center grant from the U.S. Department of Education, through which WestEd provided capacity-building technical assistance to state educational agencies and their constituents in Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island.
To reach the Regional Comprehensive Center serving these and other Northeastern states in the 2024-29 cycle, contact the Region 1 Comprehensive Center.
Resources for Agencies & Educators
Comprehensive & Rigorous Education
Highlighting Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Practices Within Districts Across New York State
A collection of videos to support educators who are implementing New York’s Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework.
Centering Equity in Rhode Island’s New Curriculum Frameworks
A blog post about the development of new legislatively mandated curriculum frameworks for mathematics, science, and English language arts.
Creating Conditions for Foundational Science Experiences: Lessons Learned from Revising Rhode Island’s Early Learning and Development Standards
A blog post about expanding and enriching the science component of the Rhode Island Early Learning and Development Standards.
Raising Awareness of the New York State Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework
A series of six framework briefs as well as professional development materials to assist with the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework roll out.
Educator Workforce
Equitable & Inclusive Hiring Practices: A Reference Guide to Grow and Diversify Rhode Island’s Educator Workforces
A reference guide with recommendations for improved hiring practices that will help local education agencies attract, recruit, and retain a highly skilled and diverse workforce that reflects Rhode Island’s students.
Going Beyond the Data in Diversifying the Teacher Workforce
A blog post about our partnership with the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands to support educational leaders in Connecticut to recruit and retain educators of color.
Enhancing Certification Reciprocity to Expand Connecticut’s Educator Talent Pool
A tool developed to compare Connecticut’s certification requirements with those of other states and territories and reduce the time required for state education agency analysts to approve certification for out-of-state candidates.
How Region 2 States Are Leveraging Innovative Strategies to Address Critical Shortages of Education Personnel
A brief highlighting how Region 2 states are innovating to address workforce shortages and provides additional considerations to address these shortages in both the short and long term.
Student Mental Health and Well-Being
Centering Equity in Social Emotional Learning
A blog about a fruitful partnership to revise and align New York’s social emotional learning benchmarks with the state’s equity-centered initiatives.
Partnering with Connecticut on New Social-Emotional Learning Guidelines
A blog about support and capacity building activities to further the development and implementation of the Components of Social, Emotional and Intellectual Habits: Grades 4 through 12 (SEIH) document.
College & Career Pathways
Graduation Requirements and Measures: A Review of Performance Assessment Implementation in Select States for the New York State Education Department
A brief containing seven state case studies that illustrate the implementation of performance-based assessments.
Multilingual Learners
Supporting Rhode Island to Develop a Multilingual Learner Blueprint and Strategic Plan
A press release about our engagement with the Rhode Island Department of Education to develop a Blueprint for Multilingual Learner Success and accompanying Strategic Plan.
Rhode Island’s Blueprint for Multilingual Learner Success
A blueprint that lays out a vision and research-based principles for what must be in place at all levels of the educational system in Rhode Island for multilingual learners to thrive.
Rhode Island’s Strategic Plan for Multilingual Learner Success
A strategic plan that outlines goals, high-level strategies, and action steps that Rhode Island Department of Education will undertake in its five-year plan for improving multilingual learner outcomes.
The content of this webpage was developed under a grant from the Department of Education through the Office of Program and Grantee Support Services (PGSS) within the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), by the Region 2 Comprehensive Center at WestEd under Award #S283B190057. This contains resources that are provided for the reader’s convenience. These materials may contain the views and recommendations of various subject matter experts as well as hypertext links, contact addresses, and websites to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. The U.S. Department of Education does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any outside information included in these materials. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the U.S. Department of Education. No official endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education of any product, commodity, service, enterprise, curriculum, or program of instruction mentioned in this document is intended or should be inferred.
