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This spotlight blog explores how WestEd supports early childhood educators through evidence-based professional development, mental health consultation, and early intervention services.

When the Nevada State Public Charter School Authority set out to update its performance frameworks, it didn’t just revise—it reimagined. With support from WestEd and community input, the state a created a fairer, more effective accountability system to ensure that over 60,000 students in over 80 charter campuses receive a high-quality education. Learn how collaboration shaped this effort.

Researchers from the National Research and Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners report that teaching English alongside math through the RAMP-UP curriculum may be the key to accelerating academic success for multilingual students in alignment with curriculum research done by WestEd’s Dr. Haiwen Chu and Leslie Hamburger.

In this Q&A, Lenay Dunn and Alicia Okpareke discuss WestEd’s approach to engaging interest holders in research and the importance of engaging with educators, families, and communities as partners in collaborative research.

Tasked with enhancing Holocaust and genocide awareness among youth, the California Governor’s Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education partnered with WestEd to equip educators with vital resources to teach these topics.

Despite some gains in areas like school stability and graduation rates over the past decade, the report reveals that many educational outcomes for foster youth remain among the lowest compared to other high-need groups, with setbacks in areas such as chronic absenteeism, college readiness, and suspensions—some of which were worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this post, we feature Amber Morabito’s expertise on the PITC curriculum and highlight her leadership in mentoring a team that delivers PITC Curriculum training and coaching nationally.

This Spotlight explores how educators can increase student literacy across all content areas, from reading comprehension to close reading.

This Spotlight highlights dynamic new resources designed to support teachers and school, district, and state administrators in math and science education.