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Region 2 Comprehensive Center

Building State Capacity to Address Complex Educational Challenges

Partnering with Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island to identify, implement, and sustain evidence-based practices to close opportunity gaps and improve outcomes for every learner.

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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.

Overview

The Region 2 Comprehensive Center (R2CC) led by WestEd, in partnership with its technical assistance partner, the Education Development Center, is part of the national Comprehensive Center Network (CC Network). The R2CC works closely with its evaluation partner, Mathematica, to provide capacity-building technical assistance to effectively support state education agencies (SEAs) and their regional and local constituents. R2CC staff provide individualized state support and facilitate regional collaboration among the three states (Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island).

A key focus for R2CC is promoting collaboration among federally funded centers to ensure coordination of efforts and more seamless delivery of services and supports. To achieve this goal, the R2CC has collaborated with the Regional Educational Laboratory-Northeast and Islands (REL-NEI) to leverage its data and research capacity to achieve project milestones and outcomes. In addition, R2CC convenes a Regional Coordinating Council to facilitate communication and resource sharing and to share information about the evolving needs and context of states in the region.

Building Capacity to Improve Education

The Region 2 Comprehensive Center, led by WestEd, supports state education agencies and their constituents in Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island through capacity-building technical assistance grounded in evidence.

Explore Our Work
Region 2: Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island

Our staff has learned how to facilitate stakeholder engagement sessions and built a knowledge base so that we could do it on our own. The R2CC modeled a process that we’ve incorporated into other work beyond the topics and areas they support us in.

— NSEA leader

The R2CC have helped us strengthen a process for presenting information to the state board, including involving the public and collecting feedback on proposed rules and policies. The strengthened process leads to better vetted policies.

— SEA leader

The R2CC engaged in long-range planning and development for the project, and provided strategies for adjusting processes and procedures, when necessary, in service to achieving milestones.

— SEA frontline staff

The resources they helped create are all good sustaining pieces. They help the agency develop a good grounding and language of the work, which can be used in other areas and efforts of equity.

— SEA frontline staff

The R2CC Team has been with us from the very beginning as thought partners, and as individuals that always stay present and are always there with us to really think about our total work as a state.

— Dr. Betty Rosa, Commissioner of Education, New York

The R2CC helped our state collaborate with another SEA to share our experiences in the work and to hear from them about how their context differs from ours and to share strategies. It’s a learning opportunity for our agency to better understand what is happening in the field and to hear what other states are doing.

— SEA frontline staff

Our Leadership

Sarah Barzee

Project Director

Amaal Awadalla

Associate Project Director

Dalia Zabala

Associate Project Director

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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.

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