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.
Resources for Agencies & Educators
Advancing Meaningful Pathways for Every Student
Advancing Family and Community Engagement: A Regional Collaborative
This Region 15 Comprehensive Center (R15CC) brief highlights the design best practices and approaches of the Family and Community Engagement (FACE) Collaborative for SEA …
Bringing Rural Education Leaders Together in a High-Impact Community of Practice
Learn how the Region 15 Comprehensive Center is supporting a Community of Practice to co-construct systemic solutions to challenges and embrace opportunities unique to rural …
Chapter 1: The Power and Promise of California’s Multilingual Learners—A Deeper Dive for Administrators and Teachers New to the Field
This archived webinar offers a close look at chapter one of the California Department of Education publication, Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner …
Chapter 2: Asset-Based Pedagogy – Student, Family, and Community Engagement for the Academic and Social-Emotional Learning of Multilingual Students
This archived webinar provides an overview of chapter 2 of the CDE publication, Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice. The …
Chapter 3: Multilingual Programs and Pedagogy – What Teachers and Administrators Need to Know and Do
The fourth in the series, this archived webinar provides an overview of chapter 3 in the CDE publication, Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: …
Chapter 4: Early Learning and Care for Multilingual and Dual Language Learners Ages Zero to Five
This archived webinar provides an overview of chapter 4 of the CDE publication, Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice. The …
Chapter 5: Content Instruction with Integrated and Designated English Language Development in the Elementary Grades
The third in the series, this archived webinar highlights four essential practices for quality teaching for multilingual learner students that are promoted in chapter 5 in the …
Chapter 6: Content and Language Instruction in Middle and High School: Promoting Educational Equity and Achievement Through Access and Meaningful Engagement
This archived webinar highlights the overview chaprovides an overview of chapter 6 of the CDE publication, Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: …
Chapter 7: Creating Schools and Systems That Support Asset-Based, High-Quality Instruction for Multilingual Learners
This archived webinar provides an overview of chapter seven from the CDE publication, Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice. …
Co-Creating a Menu of More Rigorous Interventions to Drive Nevada School Improvement
Discover how the Region 15 Comprehensive Center supported the Nevada Department of Education in developing rigorous interventions to ensure sustainable growth and improvement …
Engaging in Professional Learning Using Grades Four Through Six English Language Development (ELD) Videos
This archived webinar provides examples of how to incorporate the California Department of Education’s English Language Development videos into professional development …
Engaging in Professional Learning Using Grades Nine Through Twelve English Language Development (ELD) Videos
This archived webinar provides examples of how to incorporate the California Department of Education’s English Language Development videos into professional development …
Engaging in Professional Learning Using Grades Seven Through Eight English Language Development (ELD) Videos
This archived webinar provides examples of how to incorporate the California Department of Education’s English Language Development videos into professional development …
Engaging in Professional Learning using Transitional Kindergarten(TK)/ Kindergarten–Grade Three English Language Development (ELD) Videos
This archived webinar provides examples of how to incorporate the California Department of Education’s English Language Development videos into professional development …
English Language Development (ELD) Video Series Overview
This archived webinar provides an introduction to the California Department of Education’s English Language Development Video Series, with a focus on how to access the videos …
Listening Deeply and Responding Accordingly: R15CC Facilitates a Community of Practice Rooted in the Perspectives of American Indian Education Directors
Explore the power of a Community of Practice (CoP) for American Indian Education Directors. This story highlights the CoP’s role in addressing the unique needs of Indigenous …
Overview and Chapter 1: The Power and Promise of California’s Multilingual Learners
This archived webinar highlights the overview chapter and chapter one of the CDE publication, Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to …
Parental Involvement and Family Engagement: A Snapshot of California’s 2019 Local Indicator Data
This infographic provides an overview of California’s 2019 Local Indicator Data, and may be useful for LEAs and organizations interested in supporting improved family …
Supporting Integrated English Learner Student Instruction
This guide is designed to help district and school site leaders assess the professional learning needs of elementary school teachers to implement research-based …
Engaging State Levers to Build a High-Quality and Diverse Educator Workforce
Braiding Funds to Support an Effective and Diverse Educator Workforce
This brief is intended to support education leaders in California with coordinating—or braiding—state funds, federal funds, and specialized grants to build and support an …
Supporting an Inclusive and Effective Process for Revising California’s Teaching Standards
The California Department of Education successfully updated its California Standards for the Teaching Profession with support from the Region 15 Comprehensive Center. Learn …
Strengthening Cross-Agency Coordination for Systems Improvement
Artificial Intelligence Webinar Series, Session 2: Developing a Cohesive and Comprehensive SEA Approach to AI
The second session on artificial intelligence hosted by the Region 2, 13, and 15 Comprehensive Centers. This session helps state education agencies think about how to manage, …
Artificial Intelligence Webinar Series, Session 3: Guiding Education Leaders Towards Safe and Equitable AI Implementation
The second session on artificial intelligence hosted by the Region 2, 13, and 15 Comprehensive Centers. This session helps state education agencies think about how to manage, …
Design and Implementation of the ESSA Resource Allocation Review Lessons Learned in Utah
This brief shares discoveries made by the Region 15 Comprehensive Center and the Utah State Board of Education during their joint design and implementation of the ESSA …
ESSA Resource Allocation Review Discussion Series, Session 1
In this first of three archived webinars hosted by the Region 15 and 9 Comprehensive Centers, state education leaders share how their states are piloting and implementing ESSA …
ESSA Resource Allocation Review Discussion Series, Session 2
In this second of three archived webinars hosted by the Region 15 and 9 Comprehensive Centers, state education leaders share how their ESSA resource allocation review process …
ESSA Resource Allocation Review Discussion Series, Session 3
In this third of three archived webinars hosted by the Region 15 and 9 Comprehensive Centers, state education leaders explore how the ESSA resource allocation review process …
ESSA Resource Allocation Reviews
The infographic from the Region 15 Comprehensive Center outlines a resource allocation review process that state education agencies can use to support local education agencies …
Identifying Resource Inequities
This brief from the Region 15 Comprehensive Center provides state education agency leaders with a systematized approach for conducting a meaningful resource allocation review …
Systems Reviews: An Approach to Building Coherence, Increasing Efficiency, and Improving Workflow at State Education Agencies
This brief describes the Region 15 Comprehensive Center’s iterative Systems Review approach and how it can assist state education agencies with considering new and more …
Supporting a Comprehensive and Rigorous Education for Every Student
Accountability for Postsecondary Readiness: A 50-State Analysis
This brief explains how states define and measure postsecondary readiness, an important step toward improving how such measures function within state accountability systems.
Ethnic Studies Legislation: State Scan
This scan summarizes recent legislative initiatives that require ethnic studies to be incorporated in the K–12 standards or curricula in 19 states.
Formative Assessment Practices in Sunnyside Unified School District
Formative assessment practices help teachers and students make the most of learning as it’s taking place. This report describes the implementation of such practices in the …
Improving Coordination and Access to Comprehensive School-Based Mental Health Services in California
This report provides data to help leaders make informed decisions about how resources should be allocated and how technical assistance should be designed to effectively …
Kindergarten Entry Assessments: An Examination of Best Practices, National Trends, and Recommendations
This brief gives policymakers and practitioners a clear overview of what Kindergarten Entry Assessments are, including their purpose, features, uses, and different types.
Making Decisions Using Assessment Data in the Time of COVID-19
This knowledge brief produced by the Region 15 Comprehensive Center explores how to gather meaningful assessment data in order to develop responsive supports that address the …
Nevada’s Asset-Based, Research-Based Approach to Supporting English Language Learners and Multilingual Learners
This brief describes the key efforts of the Nevada Department of Education (NDE) and the Region 15 Comprehensive Center to help educators use the NDE’s English Language …
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A Standardized, Equitable, and Transparent High-Quality Instructional Materials Review Process
This resource delves into how the Nevada Department of Education, with support from the Region 15 Comprehensive Center, refined its review process for adopting high-quality …
COVID-19 Recovery and the Strategic Use of Funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
Co-sponsored by the Comprehensive Centers in Regions 2, 13, and 15 in collaboration with the National Comprehensive Center Network, this virtual workshop provided state …
Creating Effective Surveys: Best Practices in Survey Design
This short reference guide, developed by the Region 15 Comprehensive Center and REL West, highlights best practices in designing effective surveys.
Digital Professional Learning for K–12 Teachers: Literature Review and Analysis
To help those in charge of developing and delivering teacher professional learning online, this knowledge brief produced by the Region 15 Comprehensive Center summarizes …
R15CC and NSCI Strategic Facilitation: Arizona Special Education Evaluations Ad Hoc Committee
The Region 15 Comprehensive Center and the National Center for Systemic Improvement, both led by WestEd, collaborated to support Arizona in facilitating the state’s Special …
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.
