This page offers resources produced under the 2019-24 Region 13 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 New Mexico, Oklahoma, and the Bureau of Indian Education.
In the 2024-29 cycle, WestEd serves:
- the Bureau of Indian Education through the Region 14 Comprehensive Center.
- New Mexico and Oklahoma, along with Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, as the supporting partner to Westat’s Region 9 Comprehensive Center.
Overview
The Region 13 Comprehensive Center (R13CC) is part of the national Comprehensive Center Network (CC Network) and provides capacity-building technical assistance, content expertise, and other services to effectively support state education agencies (SEAs) and their regional and local constituents in the Bureau of Indian Education, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Staff at R13CC provide individualized state support to design and implement priority goals informed by research and evidence-based practices and facilitate collaboration among state and local education agencies and with other federally funded technical assistance centers in the national network.
The R13CC, in partnership with SEAs, also offers professional learning opportunities for local education agencies (LEAs), tribal leaders, education agencies, and educators and supports the SEA in community engagement and consultation activities.
A key focus of R13CC work is strengthening SEA organizational capacity through system design, process improvement, and change management to increase and sustain organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Project work has centered on state priorities that address student-centered needs, particularly multilingual and English Learners and Native students; supporting educator growth and development and increasing the educator workforce; and strategic resource planning for the selection and use of evidence-based practices. Regional work in virtual settings and communities of practice has provided SEAs and LEAs with opportunities to communicate, collaborate, and learn from each other in addressing shared issues and challenges.
Building Capacity to Improve Education
The Region 13 Comprehensive Center supports state education agencies and their constituents in the Bureau of Indian Education,
New Mexico, and Oklahoma through capacity-building technical assistance grounded in evidence.
Our Leadership
Steve Canavero
Project Director
Robert Salley
Associate Project Director
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 13 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.
