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.
Sushmita Subedi, Ph.D., is a senior researcher in the Education Systems program area at AIR. Dr. Subedi has more than 10 years of experience in research and evaluation of school and district improvement, social emotional learning, and educator development programs. Her current responsibilities include directing the PreK-12 RESTART Network Lead ...
On October 26, 2023 AIR hosted a webinar exploring innovative and effective approaches to addressing women’s issues in forced displacement settings. A panel of experts from AIR, academia, and NGOs presented various programmatic models and policy approaches and engage in a crucial discussion about emerging topics and continued challenges. ...
Tracy Long is a senior TA consultant at AIR. Her primary responsibilities include providing technical assistance, expertise, and conducting trainings to support youth with disabilities for state and federal education agencies. Long is also responsible for the dissemination of knowledge and development of tools for state and federal agencies and ...
Approximately 135,000 children between three and five years of age live in the departments of Ayacucho, Huancavelica, and Huánuco in Peru, where total poverty and extreme poverty rates far exceed the national averages. AIR is evaluating the impact of a preschool program which aims to improve the quality of early ...
Examining whether students in schools receiving School Redesign Grants (SRG) experienced better academic outcomes and attendance than non-SRG students, this evaluation done for the Massachusetts Office of District and School Turnaround Assistance found consistently positive and generally robust effects on student academic achievement, particularly on standardized state assessments. Results also ...
The First 1,000 Most Critical Days Program was designed to offer mothers and babies in Zambia a suite of interventions to improve their health and development. This report is the result of an evaluation of the efficacy of this program.
Teachers' use of education technology in their classrooms and schools report examines the availability of this technology in their classrooms and schools, their training and preparation for using it, and the barriers to technology use they encounter.
Of the approximately 175 countries on the World Bank’s Human Capital Index, Burkina Faso scores among the lowest, with more than 40 percent of the country’s population living below the national poverty line. In response to recurrent food crises, high levels of malnutrition, and low and unequal levels of education ...
Ensuring medicines and other essential health commodities are available to patients when and where they need them is a key concern in Kenya. The health supply chain must be unfailing to the last mile and must demonstrate accountability and transparency given the high volume and value of those commodities. In ...