Both the formal and informal education communities are increasingly focused on fostering opportunities for social and emotional learning (SEL) and the link between SEL and youth outcomes. This self-reflection tool is designed to help afterschool program staff reflect upon their own social and emotional competencies and their ability to support ...
The Equitable Attendance Policy Partnership (EAPP) aims to support states interested in examining and improving attendance policies and approaches, particularly for students and families with lived experience of the truancy process.
School districts around the country are increasingly looking to community schools as models to both respond to ongoing youth and family needs made more poignant by the COVID-19 pandemic and as a platform for providing opportunities for positive youth development that accelerate equitable student outcomes in education, health, and employment. ...
Laura Shankland is a senior technical assistance consultant at AIR. She has more than ten years of project management and education experience, overseeing the development of a range of resources for Grades K–12 educators. Shankland provides technical assistance, professional development, and communication support for AIR’s work with the Illinois 21st ...
A new guide prepared by experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR), Mathematica Policy Research and Chesapeake Research Associates offers information and strategies to help states evaluate the success of education reform efforts they are conducting under funding provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). ...
Jonathan A. Simonetta is Vice President, International Development at AIR. As Vice President, he mentors researchers, oversees projects, monitors overall project performance, and leads business development for our International Development Division.
For decades, the cocoa industry has been controversial for its use of child and forced labor. AIR is conducting research funded by the U.S. Department of Labor to develop indicators that will measure the progress of eliminating child labor and forced labor in the cocoa sector.
Following a school shooting in 2007, the City of Cleveland and its school district commissioned AIR to conduct a needs assessment and make recommendations for school improvement. In 2013, a follow-up assessment led by AIR and funded by the Cleveland Foundation was commissioned by the school district to guide continuous ...
Chad Duhon is a managing director at AIR whose work focuses on college and career readiness and success. He also has a variety of experiences managing projects and providing technical assistance.
Currently, Duhon serves as the deputy director for Monitoring Site Visits of Level 4 and Level 5 Schools in Massachusetts. ...
AIR is partnering with the Urban Institute on this U.S. Department of Labor-funded initiative to build a “gold standard” infrastructure of national occupational frameworks and establish a new online collection of standards freely available for public use.