Danielle Carnahan, a senior technical assistance consultant at AIR, has more than 20 years of experience in education, the past 12 years of which have been spent developing expertise in literacy and curriculum initiatives. During this time she has worked with numerous states, districts and schools to help align and ...
The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) offers tools and techniques that enable leaders to gauge staff concerns and program use in order to give each person the necessary supports to ensure success. Taking Charge of Change is a readable introduction to this method of predicting teacher behavior during a change process. ...
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.
On September 22, 2022, AIR will present Preventing Intergenerational Transmission of Substance Use Disorder, the fifth webinar in a series from AIR CARES. This webinar will review the evidence to support an increased focus on parental social determinants of health in the child welfare system in response to parental substance ...
AIR bridges knowledge and action to support the whole child and family. We work with educators, students, and policymakers to study and implement evidence-based programs and policies that improve outcomes.
Kellē Jones joins AIR as the grants administrator of the AIR Equity Initiative. In this role, she is responsible for designing and implementing a grantmaking infrastructure to support the Equity Initiative. Jones incorporates best practices from the field and identifies new system efficiencies for the Equity Initiative’s staff and grantees. ...
Jacqueline Triplett serves as the director of procurement and subcontracts at AIR, where she collaborates closely with business development and the contracts and grants office to oversee the entire lifecycle and administration of federal and commercial subcontracts and grants, including all purchasing functions.With over 20 years of experience in federal ...
Events in Ferguson and the Justice Department’s new report on policing raise questions about fragile police-community relationships in vulnerable communities. AIR expert Patricia Campie asks, "are we measuring the right things?" Over time, combining measures of what matters to community members with conventional crime data could help restore two-way trust ...
Sami Kitmitto is an economist and quantitative analyst specializing in quasi-experimental and experimental methods for research and evaluation in the areas of education and the workforce. He is currently deputy project director on the NAEP Validity Studies project for the U.S. Department of Education (ED), a principal investigator on an ...
Since 2007, the MTSS Center has been a national leader in supporting states, districts, and schools across the country in implementing tiered support systems that address students’ academic, behavioral, social, and emotional needs.