High-Quality Professional Learning to Strengthen Your Practice
Every year, thousands of teachers, early childhood providers, and administrators participate in professional learning opportunities that improve their capacity to support all learners. Participants tell us that the depth and breadth of our expertise and our student-centered focus makes WestEd a trusted partner in developing teacher and leader expertise and enabling student success.
Our offerings cover topics across content areas for all ages and stages of development and learning. Through engaging experiences delivered in a range of formats, we support high-quality, evidence-based teaching and leading for the benefit of all learners, including multilingual learners and students with disabilities.
We help you and your teams
- Recognize and implement standards-based, high-quality instruction and early learning care
- Apply practices for relationship-based care and learner engagement at every age and every stage
- Connect research with your teaching and leadership practice to accelerate success in the classroom and systemwide
Our Focus Areas
We feature professional learning and technical assistance in our core focus areas. Discover specific services designed to help you by selecting a specific focus area you are interested in exploring.
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Featured Services
Reading Apprenticeship
Reading Apprenticeship remains relevant and effective for over 25 years because of iterative cycles of research, development, and practice in multiple contexts. Multiple studies show that participation in Reading Apprenticeship improves teacher practice and advances student learning and engagement. Learn more about Reading Apprenticeship.
Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL)
Multiple studies document the effectiveness of professional development at a sampling of the schools that have implemented QTEL’s vision of quality teaching for English Learners. Learn more about Quality Teaching for English Learners.
Making Sense of Science
Making Sense of SCIENCE is proven to positively impact teaching and learning in science classrooms across districts and states. We accomplish this by working collaboratively to strengthen the knowledge, skills, and understanding of teachers, coaches, administrators, leaders, and school teams. Learn more about Making Sense of Science.
Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
We provide professional learning experiences for districts to develop an equitable Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework that leadership teams use to make data-informed decisions about students’ academic, behavioral, and social–emotional needs. Learn more about Muli-Tiered Systems of Support.
Conditions for Learning and Development: Peer Collaboratives for Educational Leaders
These tailored events are designed for school districts, regional educational agencies, or state educational agency teams designed to promote deep exploration of strategies that strengthen equitable conditions of learning, development, and well-being in educational systems so that students and the adults who support them can succeed. Learn more about the Peer Collaboratives.