Jenny Scala is a managing director for AIR. Scala has managed AIR’s early warning system efforts since 2013 and participates in multiple projects using her expertise in using data to inform instructional decision-making across the nation. She currently oversees implementation of AIR’s early warning intervention and monitoring systems (EWIMS) mid-phase ...
The National Assessment Governing Board has recently turned increased attention towards the NAEP achievement levels and associated achievement level descriptors. This white paper offers two specific contributions for NAGB to consider as they move forward with plans to develop evidence to support removal of the trial status of the NAEP ...
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.
Donna Warthan is a senior technical consultant at AIR. Her primary responsibilities include managing the overall project and budget for four federal School Improvement Grant projects in Virginia and New York. In this work, she assists the district and schools in corrective action use data to develop concrete action plans ...
Cheryl Krohn is a senior technical assistance consultant for AIR with more than 16 years of experience developing and leading trainings, professional development, and coaching opportunities in K-12 education. She serves as a senior advisor supporting AIR’s Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, providing coaching to the center’s national collaborative ...
Rebecca Zumeta Edmonds is a managing researcher at the AIR in Washington, DC, where she serves as the co-director of the National Center on Intensive Intervention, and as project director for an Investing in Innovation and Improvement (i3) Development Grant. She previously coordinated services for the Response to Intervention Center ...
Kim Gattis is a nationally recognized expert in large-scale mathematics assessments through her work at the state, national, and international levels. For over a decade she has led AIR projects supporting the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. Currently ...
Larry V. Hedges is an AIR Scholar, as well as Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics, Education and Social Policy, and Psychology and co-director of the Center for Statistics in Education and Public Policy (STEPP) Center at Northwestern University. His appointments include serving as chair of the Board of Directors ...