Unlike transitional bilingual programs that mainly seek to prepare English learners for general education classrooms, dual language programs aim to develop students’ literacy and content area knowledge in both English and a partner language, such as Spanish or Chinese. In this blog post, Andrea Boyle and Lisa Tabaku discuss their ...
The need to serve English language learners (ELLs) has never been more pressing. The Supporting English Language Learners guide, developed by the Center for English Language Learners at AIR, is designed for state and district leaders who play a key role in ensuring that all students—including ELLs—graduate from high school ...
The purpose of the Logistics and Tribal Support project is to provide logistical and administrative support to the Child, Adolescent, and Family Branch and initiatives related to the Center for Mental Health Initiatives.
AIR has been awarded a five-year contract to continue to provide support to a federal program that rewards clinicians that provide high-value, high-quality care for Medicare enrollees. AIR will support clinicians’ participation in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) on behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for ...
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 established the Quality Payment Program (QPP) in 2015 to repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate Formula and to reward clinicians who provide high-value, high-quality care to Medicare patients. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the first year of the ...
Since 2007, the MTSS Center has been a national leader in supporting states, districts, and schools across the country in implementing tiered support systems that address students’ academic, behavioral, social, and emotional needs.
This research brief, the second from the Back on Track study, describes the role of in-class mentors in the online classrooms and examines whether students benefited from additional instructional support from their in-class mentors.
But implementing Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) can be challenging and there is limited research on how to measure and improve implementation. AIR has been awarded a federal grant to develop and test the Integrated MTSS Fidelity Rubric, a system that will provide useful data on MTSS implementation and will ...
AIR Experts will present at the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting & Expo at the Georgia World Congress Center and the Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center taking place November 4-8 in Atlanta, GA. This year’s conference theme, “Creating the Healthiest Nation: Climate Changes Health” is designed to ...
Project RISE (Realizing Internationals Supports for English Language Learners) aims to improve the educational outcomes of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades 9–12 in two schools identified as persistently low performing by changing teachers’ instructional practices and several key structures in which students and teachers are organized. AIR is providing ...