By increasing the capacity and stability of leaders and teachers, low-performing schools may improve student performance and increase graduation rates. This video explores a leadership coaching program that has produced considerable improvements at an Illinois high school.
Sarah Peko-Spicer is a senior researcher in the Educators and Instruction program at AIR. She has extensive expertise in methods related to cluster randomized trials, optimal design of experiments, replication, and meta-analysis. Her primary areas of interest include social emotional learning, civic engagement, and critical research methods. She currently serves ...
Kyle Fagan is a principal researcher at AIR, where he works with state, regional, and local agencies on research, evaluation, and technical assistance projects. His work is primarily focused on addressing issues of equity through collaborative research and technical support. Dr. Fagan services as the partnership facilitator for the Midwest ...
Alicia Espinoza is a senior technical assistance consultant at AIR. Her expertise includes coaching teacher leaders, school administrators, and district leaders through the implementation of evidence-based district and school improvement systems, processes, and practices. She specializes in school-wide design and implementation of professional learning communities, literacy in secondary and adult ...
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.
Rekha Varghese is a managing researcher and deputy lead for the Evaluation, Methods and Analytics Program Area of the AIR Health Division. She is a health economist with more than 20 years of experience in domestic and international program evaluation and policy analysis. She has subject matter expertise in Medicare ...
The School Improvement Grant program awarded grants to states that agreed to implement one of four school intervention models—transformation, turnaround, restart, or closure—in their lowest-performing schools. This final report builds on the earlier briefs and report by including an additional year of data and by examining whether receipt of SIG ...
As a part of the Striving Readers program supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Milwaukee Public Schools implemented the Read 180 program in five schools in an effort to provide targeted literacy supports to struggling students. This evaluation update details the results of the evaluation, which show that the ...
Julia Casasanto-Ferro, a senior researcher at AIR, has been conducting special education research and evaluations since joining AIR in 2007. Her experience has concentrated on multi-tiered systems of support, evidence-based practices, and universal design for learning. For the last ten years, Julia has worked on several OSEP-funded national technical assistance ...