For the first time in Oregon history, blind students now have access to the state's online adaptive test system. The new OAKS Online Braille Interface, designed by Oregon's test vendor and partner American Institutes for Research, allows Oregon's blind students to access the same online test and the same ...
This series of modules Using CBM in a Response to Intervention Framework, provides information about how student progress monitoring, specifically Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM), can be used to determine a student’s response to an intervention.
The Massachusetts Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) is a multifaceted, community-based strategy that combines public health and public safety approaches to eliminate serious violence among proven-risk, urban youth ages 17–24. The most recent implementation and impact study illuminated a clear distinction between cities with SSYI relative to similarly violent ...
Gun violence can leave people feeling helpless and searching for answers—but there are ways to help reduce and prevent it, including community engagement and youth initiatives. Explore AIR’s violence prevention resources to learn more.
Special education experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will participate in a variety of presentations, panel discussions and poster sessions at the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Convention and Expo occurring March 1-4, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Kelly Wells is a principal technical assistance consultant at AIR, with almost two decades of direct experience providing training and technical assistance to state and local education and mental health agencies to develop a comprehensive approach to school mental health. Wells currently leads all the training and technical assistance (TTA) ...
The Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools model is a whole-school intervention that aims to promote social inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities in their schools through inclusive activities that occur within the normative contexts of the school. Key inclusive strategies include unified sports, inclusive youth leadership, and whole-school awareness and ...
This online training curriculum series is designed to guide school systems and community partnerships in establishing a strategic financing process to secure resources necessary to sustain comprehensive school mental health programs.
This series of monographs addresses the issues of youth with cognitive or behavioral disabilities and their experiences in the juvenile justice system. Staff in the system can better serve these children by receiving support in understanding these issues.
This tool is used to assist a State Leadership Team to develop and implement procedures to: scale-up the adoption and use of a targeted evidence-based practice or program and evaluate the extent to which implementation of the practice or program has occurred over time.