Amarillo Independent School District’s federally funded Vision 2020 Virtual Learning Strand grant program provides funding to increase participation in the Texas Virtual School Network. The primary goal of Vision 2020 was to provide staff development and technology-based resources and support aimed at increasing the district’s technology content knowledge as well ...
Quality standards are a foundational aspect of an afterschool system, where the goal is to ensure that all youth have access to high-quality programs. The resources on this page are intended to support networks that are developing, implementing, and refining statewide quality standards.
The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.
The Illinois State Board of Education has adopted a multicomponent approach to address learning and recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, prioritizing social-emotional learning by establishing Learning Renewal—Social and Emotional Learning programs across the state. ISBE and AIR are partnering to examine the implementation, outcomes, and costs of ...
By 2016, consumers shopping on the online Health Insurance Marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act will have the opportunity to compare health plans using information from the Quality Reporting System. Although it is currently undergoing development, there is considerable debate as to what measures consumers would find most useful ...
Through the Comprehensive Centers Program, the U.S. Department of Education awards discretionary grants for centers to provide capacity-building technical assistance to states and school districts in their design and implementation of evidence-based policies, practices, programs, and interventions that improve instruction and student achievement and outcomes. AIR has operated comprehensive centers ...
The Affordable Care Act established health insurance marketplaces where millions of consumers can sign up for health plans. AIR provides technical, analytical, policy, and operational support to the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight Marketplace Plan Management Group.
Title I, Part D of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act allocates funds to states and school districts to improve educational services for neglected and delinquent youth. This study, prepared by AIR for the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, was designed to better ...
The National Center for Healthy Safe Children offers resources, training, and technical assistance to support states, tribes, territories, and local communities as they promote overall wellbeing for students and their families. Learn more about what we do.
At this stage in the quality standards development process, you have brought together a collaborative group of stakeholders to research and design a set of afterschool quality standards, and you have successfully navigated the approval process in your state. You are now ready to share the standards with the field ...