Shauntice Wheeler is a senior TA consultant in the Educators & Instruction program at AIR. Wheeler is a dedicated and passionate educator with more than 24 years of experience in public education. She provides quality support in the areas of educator recruitment, preparation, development, and retention. She is currently working ...
Hundreds of thousands of families and more than one million children are homeless in America each year, and the numbers are increasing. Female-headed families, veterans, and LGBT youth are among those most at risk, often due to extreme trauma that precedes and is made worse by homelessness.
The U.S. Department of ...
The Programme Haitien d'Appui à la Réforme de l'Education (PHARE) in Haiti is a USAID-funded, deliverables-based contract with AIR. PHARE is USAID's response to the Government of Haiti's effort to restore, sustain, and expand education and health services. PHARE's main objective is to reinforce the capacity of the Ministry of ...
Researchers from AIR's CALDER, Harvard's Center for Education Policy and Research, and NWEA are partnering with a coalition of districts across the country to help determine which COVID recovery interventions are working (or not working), which students they are helping, and why.
The role of today’s principal is changing, as is the principal workforce. Understanding how to better prepare new leaders for the role of principal is an urgent policy concern. The George W. Bush Institute and AIR have partnered to evaluate the impact of five principal preparation programs in the United ...
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a system of international assessments that focuses on 15-year-olds' capabilities in reading literacy, mathematics literacy and science literacy.
Learning conditions that support a well-rounded education for all students are key ingredients within state’s ESSA plans. At times, creating a positive school climate and supporting student social and emotional development can be daunting challenges. In this webinar, AIR staff introduce the Leadership Competency Self-Reflection Tool and a coaching toolkit ...
AIR will release a new report on international benchmarking for 4th and 8th grade math students on June 16, 2009, which will be followed by a panel discussion that includes Massachusetts Commissioner of Education Mitch Chester and senior officials of the National Governors' Association (NGA) and the National Association of ...
Researchers from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) attend annual conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE), and discuss randomized field trials in school settings, mathematics and science education, preschool, teacher professional development, more.
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.