This page offers resources produced under the 2019-24 Region 15 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 Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah.
To reach the Regional Comprehensive Center serving these states in the 2024-29 cycle, contact the Region 10 Comprehensive Center.
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Building Capacity in Rural Settings
This project supports a four-state Community of Practice (CoP) focused on developing adaptive leadership capacity and systemic solutions to deliver a comprehensive and rigorous education to every student in rural schools and communities.
American Indian Education Directors Community of Practice
This project supports a regional Community of Practice (CoP) that helps Indian Education directors in four states delivery a comprehensive and rigorous education to American Indigenous students, incorporating the rich cultural assets that Indigenous students, families, communities, and nations offer as successful solutions to these issues.
Family and Community Engagement Community of Practice
This project supports a regional family and community partnership collaborative that is focused on networking, problem-solving, and discussing shared topics of interest that support family and community partnerships to accelerate student learning and ensure a pathway to college and career for every student.
State Education Agency Leadership Development
This project supports state education agencies (SEAs) as they develop internal leadership capacity to support and sustain agency priorities and programs that create the conditions to accelerate learning and offer comprehensive and rigorous education for every student.
Regional Webinar Series: Making a Difference for American Indian and Alaska Native Students
The Making a Difference webinar series is designed to convene and equip tribal and SEA leaders to focus on emerging innovative policies and practices that can tackle persistent challenges for American Indian and Alaska Native students. The series will amplify systemic, policy-level approaches for transforming outcomes for Native American students and support participants in identifying action steps.
COVID-19 Recovery and the Strategic Use of Funds From the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
This virtual workshop was cosponsored by the Region 2, 13, and 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers in collaboration with the National Comprehensive Network. Attended by SEAs from across the country, the workshop was designed to discuss the implications of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021, assist SEAs in strategic planning with featured examples of states and territories’ approaches, and provide opportunities for SEA-specific and cross-SEA planning and discussion. A discussion and planning tool was provided for SEA use.
Scaling Effective Formative Assessment Practices
This project helps the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) build statewide capacity by using formative assessment in Arizona schools. The project will develop a formative assessment framework and an ADE cross-program network that supports the conditions to accelerate learning and offer a comprehensive and rigorous education for every student.
Scaling and Sustaining Arizona Supervisors of Principals Academy (SOPA)
This project sustains and expands the Arizona Supervisors of Principals Academy (SOPA), an evidence-based leadership program for Arizona principals, focusing on coaching and instructional leadership to improve learning conditions and support the retention of high-quality educators.
Growing a Differentiated Educator Workforce
This project is focused on educator recruitment and retention and outlines role-based competencies for a team-based model approach to classroom instruction that features distributive leadership, multiple entry points, and opportunities for teacher growth that will improve learning conditions for every student.
Multilingual and English Learner Instructional Policy Implementation
This project helps the California Department of Education’s (CDE) Multilingual Support Division (MSD) to strengthen engagement in continuous improvement processes, particularly policies and practices that provide every student with a pathway to multilingualism.
Implementation of the State Assessment and Accountability System
This project supports the CDE in implementing equitable and technically strong standards, assessments, and accountability systems. The project features expert advisory groups, cross-division coordination around English Learner populations, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement systems that accelerate learning for every student.
Diversifying the Educator Workforce
This project supports the CDE in convening a Community of Practice of local education agencies to identify evidence-based practices, share policies and practices, discuss potential strategies, and prepare materials that support increased recruitment and retention of a diverse and culturally competent teacher workforce creating conditions to improve learning conditions for every student.
Addressing Public Comment on the California Mathematics Framework
This project provides facilitation and project management support, content expertise, and editorial input to CDE and the State Board of Education as they review and analyze public comments on the second draft of the California Mathematics Framework focused on delivering a comprehensive and rigorous education for every student.
Implementation of English Language Development Standards Framework
This project helps the Nevada Department of Education (NDE) provide consistent guidance and high-quality teacher education and educator professional learning resources to support evidence-based teaching and learning, resulting in a comprehensive and rigorous education for English Learner students.
Strengthening Data Infrastructure and Governance
This project guides the NDE with workshops and other targeted technical assistance on data governance and infrastructure, clear data reporting, and improved data literacy to support the NDE’s strategic vision (Statewide Plan for the Improvement of Pupils or STIP) with better data management and communication.
Educator Shortages, Recruitment, and Retention
In this project, the NDE supports the work of the Nevada State Teacher Recruitment and Retention Advisory Task Force, focusing on data and evidence-based practices to mitigate challenges in teacher recruitment and retention and eliminate the teacher shortage in every school.
Coaching Support for K–12 English Language Arts Program
This project provides coaching support and technical assistance to the NDE K–12 English Language Arts Program, notably to advance the work of the Nevada Adolescent Literacy Network (NALN) through continuous improvement focused on accelerating learning for every student.
State System of Support for Continuous School Improvement
This project assists the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) as it develops a Center for Continuous School Improvement (CCSI). The Center provides a tiered system of support for all schools and districts in Utah to collaboratively implement equitable, transparent, and systemic transformations that support conditions to accelerate learning through continuous improvement.
Building Capacity to Leverage Existing Data Infrastructure to Improve Safe and Healthy Schools Data
This project helps the USBE use its existing data infrastructure to help the state’s districts and charter schools collect and report accurate incident data to inform Utah’s safe and healthy schools initiatives to best invest in every student’s mental health and well-being.
Developing a State Resource Allocation Review Process
This project helps the USBE develop a resource allocation review process to conduct periodic reviews of resource allocation methods in low-performing schools and their local education agencies (LEAs) to ensure conditions that support a comprehensive and rigorous education for every student.
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The Region 15 Comprehensive Center (R15CC) led by WestEd is part of the national Comprehensive Center Network and provides capacity-building technical assistance, content expertise, and other services in support of state education agencies (SEAs) and their regional and local constituents in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah. R15CC staff provide individualized state support and facilitate regional collaboration between the Arizona Department of Education, the California Department of Education, the Nevada Department of Education, and the Utah State Board of Education.
A central priority for the R15CC is providing multiple opportunities for regional state partners to collaborate on shared problems of practice and evidence-based solutions through Communities of Practice (CoPs) and Professional Learning Networks (PLNs). These regular convenings bring together educational partners from all four states, spotlighting bright spots and identifying opportunities for professional learning and technical assistance.
R15CC dedicates significant expertise to building the organizational capacity of its SEA partners and providing support for leadership development. R15CC works side by side with its regional partners to expand the implementation of sustainable practices, increasing SEA’s systemic effectiveness.
