Join AIR at 11 a.m. (EDT) Wednesday, Sept. 18 for a one-hour webinar hosted by Education Week on the importance of leadership coaching and leadership academies as part of the larger school turnaround effort.
When teachers learn, students learn. For decades, AIR has conducted studies of teacher professional learning and helped practitioners use evidence to develop, implement, test, and scale professional learning programs.
Experts from AIR will present several sessions at the upcoming AcademyHealth 2022 Annual Research Meeting (ARM), June 4-7 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The theme of the meeting is “Leading with Evidence in a Time of Change.”
An intensive content-focused professional development program improved fourth-grade teachers’ knowledge and some aspects of their instruction, but not their students’ achievement, according to a new study by AIR.
New U.S. Department of Education draft rules aim to hold teacher-training programs accountable for the quality of their graduates. In this blog post, Marianne Lemke discusses what's at stake.
Members of the study design team from AIR and CAST will discuss the study's design and methodology and demonstrate the Thinking Reader program, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and conducted by REL-NEI.
Despite large investments and efforts, schools and districts have long struggled to provide ongoing, effective, and sustained support for teachers’ professional development. This study examined the experiences of teachers in six schools participating in one of three teacher network programs during the 2016–17 school year. ...
In the next decade, almost half of the teaching workforce will be comprised of new teachers. In this video interview, AIR's Jenny DeMonte talks about teacher preparation and the ways we can enhance programs to improve teacher quality.
Darren Cambridge, an expert in education technology and online communities of practice at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), has been awarded the Faculty Writing Prize for his "innovative and groundbreaking" book, Eportfolios for Lifelong Learning and Assessment.
Making education a true engine for human and social development requires evidence-based instructional strategies and systems for students, families, and teachers. AIR integrates the science of what works with the equally complex science of implementing what works on a global scale.