When used together, schoolwide social and emotional learning (SEL) and Trauma Sensitive Schools (TSS) support a holistic approach to meeting student needs. This brief examines how TSS and SEL can be integrated and expanded to create safe, supportive, and culturally responsive schools that prevent school-related trauma and foster thriving, robust ...
Experts from AIR will participate in the annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), which attracts academics, researchers and practitioners in the fields of comparative education, international development, and global and regional studies.
Experts from AIR will lead and participate in several presentations at the Council for Exceptional Children’s 2020 Special Education Convention and Expo, which will be held Feb. 5-8 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. The annual convention is one of the nation’s largest gatherings of special education researchers, ...
This article introduces basic definitions and concepts important in discussions of early intervention for children with, or at risk for developing, emotional or behavioral disorders.
All children deserve to live healthy lives and experience positive well-being. The aim for this work is to understand the context that includes the norms, values, and conditions that underpin child well-being in various countries, with the intention of transferring and applying that knowledge to the United States. ...
Maria Payri is a researcher in the Youth, Family, and Community Development program at AIR. Payri has over 10 years of experience as an evaluator with expertise in qualitative research and survey design for large-scale federal studies such as the National Household Education Study (NHES), where she serves as qualitative ...
The National Center for Healthy Safe Children offers resources, training, and technical assistance to support states, tribes, territories, and local communities as they promote overall wellbeing for students and their families.
Head Start, a leader for 50 years in preparing children from low income families for kindergarten and beyond, is about to undergo its first comprehensive overhaul since 1975. In this blog post, AIR's Yoni Farber talks about the importance of the change from intermittent workshops to intensive professional development for ...
The Ethiopian government has made a firm commitment to supporting early childhood development and school readiness support nationally. However, the creation of (Grade 0) kindergarten classes in all primary schools cannot be achieved overnight. UNICEF Ethiopia received a challenge grant to test the effectiveness of two accelerated school readiness programs ...
AIR conducted a review of key literature in 2011-12 exploring the measurement of teacher practice and student learning in arts-integrated settings through a project funded by the Department of Education and offered by the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts.