One approach to creating real change in both school safety and the use of exclusionary discipline practices is to change the culture of the school by using circles and restorative practices to transform student-teacher relationships, peer relationships, and staff culture. With funding from the National Institute of Justice, AIR partnered ...
The Science of Learning and Development (SoLD) initiative began in 2016 with a shared commitment to a better and more equitable education for each and every child—and a hypothesis that a synthesis of the knowledge from multiple disciplines could provide critical insights and solutions to persistent and growing inequity and ...
The Ohio Department of Education recently awarded AIR a contract to identify and cost out best practices for providing services to students with disabilities. In addition to informing Ohio on how its special education funding policy might be improved, this work also relies on AIR’s technical assistance expertise to support ...
Washington state is invested in social and emotional learning (SEL) as a key lever for supporting student success in school and in life. AIR has partnered with Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) in building capacity across the state to implement the statewide SEL framework. ...
Student agency, or the ability to manage one’s learning, can have significant effects on academic achievement as students take an active role in seeking and internalizing new knowledge. The purpose of this study was to identify the instructional practices that may be useful for the development of different aspects of ...
In the wake of the pandemic, there is an urgent need to address national disruptions in student achievement and help educators boost student engagement, particularly among students from marginalized groups and among those who struggled prior to the pandemic. The PreK–12 Research on Education Strategies to Advance Recovery and Turnaround ...
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.
The Nevada School Climate/Social Emotional Learning Surveys (NV-SCSEL) are administered to students and school staff across the state of Nevada each fall. The NV-SCSEL are used by schools to measure and understand their students’ and staffs’ perceptions of key school climate topics, including physical and emotional safety, relationships, and cultural ...
From 1992–2004, the Center for Special Education Finance (CSEF)—a national technical assistance center funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs—addressed fiscal policy questions related to the delivery and support of special education throughout the United States. A major undertaking for CSEF was the Special Education ...
The purpose of this project is to plan, research, design, and execute the annual Indicators of School Crime and Safety, a flagship report co-sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.