Steve Leinwand is a principal researcher at AIR and has over 30 years of leadership positions in mathematics education. He currently serves as mathematics expert on a wide range of AIR projects that evaluate programs, develop assessments, and provide technical assistance. Leinwand’s work at AIR has included developing specifications and ...
Jen Chingwe is a senior technical assistance consultant in the Human Services Division at AIR. Her primary responsibilities include leading change management initiatives using Lean Six Sigma and Human Centered Design methodologies to guide organizational change and the design of learning solutions that support change.
Dr. Chingwe excels at process ...
Sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC) initiative is designed to support rural, critical access hospitals, rural emergency hospitals, and those hospitals that are low performing and serve vulnerable populations in achieving measurable outcomes under the rubrics of patient safety, addressing ...
Karin Johnson is a principal researcher in the Health Division at AIR. Her primary responsibilities include providing subject matter expertise to support healthcare innovation efforts, including data system modernization. Dr. Johnson applies her nearly 20 years of management and research experience to lead research and technical assistance teams in close ...
The debate about Medicare’s future takes many forms. It is often linked to questions about financing – often couched in terms of the burdens on current and future taxpayers and the need to cut benefits. Are the current levels of benefits affordable over time? A set of issue briefs by ...
Christy Montgomery is in the Human Services program at AIR. Montgomery is a passionate innovation catalyst with over 15 years of experience in workforce development and government administration. She brings a breadth of knowledge engaging partners in strategic planning to achieve program and system alignment goals. Her responsibilities include leading ...
Nearly 10 percent of pregnant women develop gestational diabetes, and up to 30 percent of those will develop Type 2 diabetes as they age. Yet many of these women do not check their blood glucose levels as often as they should. AIR researchers studied why women at high risk avoid testing.
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.
This results of this review indicate that a general violence prevention program has the same probability of successfully reducing cyberbullying as a program that directly targets cyberbullying.
Implementation science literature on organizational readiness for delivering evidence-based programs has predominantly focused on single entity providers; however, Pay for Success projects tend to use more complex networks of providers. This presentation from the American Evaluation Association Conference explores the implications of different provider constellations for readiness assessment. ...