The Comprehensive Center Network works with all the U.S. states and territories. Use this interactive map to see current projects from both the Regional Centers and the National Center affiliated with each state.
States
Alabama
Regional Center: Region 7 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Alabama Early Literacy
This project ensures the current Alabama Reading Initiative (ARI) practices, policies, and procedures are aligned to the current evidence base on grades K–3 literacy development and provides professional development for regional and local literacy coaches.
Partner Center(s): Region 7 Comprehensive Center
● Alabama Improving English Learner Student Academic Achievement
This initiative assists Alabama as the state administers a Framework for English Learner Success and an action plan to identify and operationalize evidence-based policy and practices to support districts and schools.
Partner Center(s): Region 7 Comprehensive Center
● Alabama Improving K–5 Evidence-Based Practices in Math
This collaboration with the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative at the Alabama Department of Education applies implementation science to strengthen the use of K–5 math practices through capacity-building, professional learning, and coaching.
Partner Center(s): Region 7 Comprehensive Center
● Alabama School Improvement Framework
This framework expands opportunities and access to a high-quality education for all students in Alabama.
Partner Center(s): Region 7 Comprehensive Center
● Community of Practice: Driving Toward Equity Through School Improvement
In this Community of Practice, state education agency and district leaders learn with and from each other about the use of equity indicators to address disparities in outcomes and opportunities to learn.
Partner Center(s): National Comprehensive Center
Alaska
Regional Center: Region 16 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Achieving the Promise of Alaska's Education Challenge through Strategic Coherence and Evidence-Based Implementation.
This effort supports the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development in a multi-year, statewide effort to build strategic coherence and statewide professional learning alignment in support of the State Board of Education’s 2025 goal of “all students reading at grade level by the end of Grade 3.”
Partner Center(s): Region 16 Comprehensive Center
● Capacity Building Supports for American Rescue Plan Implementation
This project helps the American Samoa Department of Education and Hawai'i Department of Education to implement the American Rescue Plan social-emotional learning project implementation and improve reporting capacity.
Partner Center(s): Region 19 Comprehensive Center
● Building Regional Capacity to Address Educational Inequities and Low Student Performance
This initiative encourages shared stewardship and collaboration across the region to create systemic conditions necessary for strong and healthy schools where students, families, and educators thrive and the voices of students, families and communities are heard.
Partner Center(s): Region 16 Comprehensive Center
American Samoa
Regional Center: Region 19 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Accountability System Implementation
In this project, the American Samoa Department of Education will design, implement, and support an accountability system that is technically sound, equity-focused, and that includes support for continuous improvement, stakeholder engagement, and increased learning and well-being for all students.
Partner Center(s): Region 19 Comprehensive Center
● Capacity Building Supports for American Rescue Plan Implementation
This project helps the American Samoa Department of Education and Hawai'i Department of Education to implement the American Rescue Plan social-emotional learning project implementation and improve reporting capacity.
Partner Center(s): Region 19 Comprehensive Center
● Capacity Building for Continuity of Learning
This project supports all the regional state educational agencies (SEAs) in the region as they build capacity to respond to disruptions, such as those caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, seasonal typhoons, regional disease outbreaks such as dengue fever, and other systemic stressors.
Partner Center(s): Region 19 Comprehensive Center
Arizona
Regional Center: Region 15 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Scaling Effective Formative Assessment Practices
This project helps the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) build statewide capacity in using formative assessment in Arizona schools. The project will develop a formative assessment framework and an ADE cross-program network.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Supporting Arizona's Network of School and District Leaders - ELEVATE
ELEVATE is an evidence-based leadership training program designed to increase the capacity of local education agency (LEA) and school-level leaders to implement rapid and sustainable school improvement, especially in Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) and Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI) identified schools.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Scaling and Sustaining the Arizona Supervisors of Principals Academy (SOPA)
This project sustains and expands the Arizona Supervisors of Principals Academy (SOPA), an evidence-based leadership program for Arizona principals, focusing on coaching and instructional leadership.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Arizona Department of Education Leadership Program Review and Redesign
In this effort, the Arizona Department of Education’s Educator Recruitment and Retention office will review and revise its school principal leadership program for greater alignment to national standards and cohesion with its training program for supervisors of principals.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Local Education Agency Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices: Selection, Use, Data Collection, Analysis, Monitoring, & Reporting
This project, a collaboration with the Arizona Department of Education, will increases local education agency (LEA) capacity for selection, use, data collection, analysis, monitoring, and reporting on the outcomes of evidence-based practices.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Growing, Diversifying, and Retaining the Educator Workforce (Supplemental Funding)
This educator recruitment and retention project outlines role-based competencies for a team-based model approach to classroom instruction that features distributive leadership, multiple entry points, and opportunities for teacher growth.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Building Capacity in Rural Settings
This project supports a four-state Community of Practice focused on developing adaptive leadership capacity and systemic solutions to address the economic and academic challenges that face rural schools and communities.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Ongoing Leadership Consulting and Rapid Responses to Emerging Needs
This project offers state education agencies (SEAs) in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah consultation and rapid response support as they respond to emerging needs in the 2022-2023 school year.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● American Indian Education Directors Community of Practice
This Community of Practice (CoP) helps Indian Education Directors in four states address the academic challenges that face American Indigenous peoples, incorporating the rich cultural assets that Indigenous students, families, communities, and nations offer as successful solutions to these issues.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Family and Community Engagement Community of Practice
This regional family and community partnership collaborative is focused on networking, problem-solving and discussing shared topics of interest around family and community partnerships in a four-state region.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
Arkansas
Regional Center: Region 14 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Needs Sensing and Project Management
This project helps educators and administrators in three states assess needs, identify conditions for successful projects, integrate evidence-based practices, and determine which entities are most suited to benefit from capacity building services offered by the Regional Centers and the National Center.
Partner Center(s): Region 14 Comprehensive Center
Bureau of Indian Education
Regional Center: Region 13 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● BIE Executive Leadership Program
This effort addresses internal organizational management, leadership capacity, and productivity in leaders at the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), building capacity in communication and collaboration.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
● Agency Plan/Standards, Assessment & Accountability/Tribal Waiver Process
This effort supports the Bureau of Indian Education as it implements a unified standards, assessment, and accountability system consistent with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
● BIE’s Principal Leadership Academy
This effort develops and implements a tiered level of support for all Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) principals.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
● BIE’s Federal Programs and School Improvement Tiered System of Support
In this project, the Bureau of Indian Education’s (BIE) Federal Programs team develops and implements a tiered system of support for monitoring and improving BIE schools in collaboration with the National Center on Systemic Improvement.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
● USED R13CC Collaboration
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Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
● Making a Difference for American Indian/Alaska Native Students (Innovations and Wise Practices): Virtual Series
This virtual learning series helps tribal and state education agency (SEA) leaders focus on remedies to persistent challenges faced by American Indian/Alaska Native students. The series emphasizes tribal and state partnerships that have resulted in new policies; tribal, state, education, business, and philanthropic partnerships that have improved educational opportunities and outcomes for Native students; and research opportunities that could add to the knowledge base in support of these students.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Cross-State American Indian Education Directors’ Community of Practice
This Community of Practice (CoP) helps Indian Education Directors in six states address the academic challenges that face American Indian/Alaska Native peoples, incorporating the rich cultural assets that Indigenous students, families, communities, and nations bring as successful solutions to these issues.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
California
Regional Center: Region 15 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Multilingual and English Learner Instructional Policy Implementation
This project helps the California Department of Education’s (CDE) Multilingual Support Division (MSD) to strengthen engagement in continuous improvement processes, notably policies and practices that improve educational outcomes for multilingual and English learner students.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) Support
This project helps Local Literacy Lead Agency (LLA) grantees in California implement the Comprehensive Literacy State Development grant program. Each of the seven LLAs focus on one of the statewide literacy priorities in California’s State Literacy Plan.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Implementation of the State Assessment and Accountability System
This project will help the California Department of Education (CDE) implement an equitable and technically-strong standards, assessment, and accountability system. The project features expert advisory groups, cross-Division coordination around populations such as English learners, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement systems.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Support for County Office of Education Differentiated Assistance
This project help Differentiated Assistance (DA) providers in county-run schools use a continuous improvement approach to coaching county office improvement teams.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Nutrition Services Division Systems Review and Alignment
This effort supports the Nutrition Services Division as it onboards staff and implements a new organizational structure for work distribution to implement the California Universal Meals Program.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Early Education Division Organization Development
This project engages senior leaders from California Department of Education's (CDE) Early Education Division in shared leadership development opportunities that strengthen the coordination, trust, and effectiveness of their team.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Diversifying the Educator Workforce
This project features two Communities of Practice to identify evidence-based practices, share policies and practices, discuss potential strategies, and prepare materials that support increased recruitment and retention of a diverse and culturally competent teacher workforce.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Addressing Public Comment on The California Math Framework
This effort provides facilitation and project management support, content expertise, and editorial input to California Department of Education (CDE) and State Board of Education (SBE) as they review and analyze public comment on the second draft of the California Mathematics Framework.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Emergency Operations Plan Development Interest Holder Engagement
This project supports the California Department of Education's (CDE) Emergency Services Team as it uses feedback from internal CDE programs and other state agencies to draft a plan for best practices in the management of emergencies, outlining assistance to all K-12 education agencies when disaster strikes.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Opportunities for All Branch Leadership Collaboration and Process Improvement
This project guides the Opportunities for All Branch of the California Department of Education (CDE) through a continuous improvement process to increase the effectiveness of its branch-level processes and procedures. Opportunities for All Branch helps all students—from infant and toddlers to adults—to fulfill their goals by supporting teachers, educators, and school and district leaders while celebrating diversity and embracing inclusion before, during, and after school.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Human Resources Division Systems Review
This initiative engages the California Department of Education’s Human Resources Division (HRD) in a continuous improvement process to identify gaps and opportunities for increased efficiency and functionality within HRD’s current operating processes and procedures
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Building Capacity in Rural Settings
This project supports a four-state Community of Practice focused on developing adaptive leadership capacity and systemic solutions to address the economic and academic challenges that face rural schools and communities.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Ongoing Leadership Consulting and Rapid Responses to Emerging Needs
This project offers state education agencies (SEAs) in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah consultation and rapid response support as they respond to emerging needs in the 2022-2023 school year.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● American Indian Education Directors Community of Practice
This Community of Practice (CoP) helps Indian Education Directors in four states address the academic challenges that face American Indigenous peoples, incorporating the rich cultural assets that Indigenous students, families, communities, and nations offer as successful solutions to these issues.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Family and Community Engagement Community of Practice
This regional family and community partnership collaborative is focused on networking, problem-solving and discussing shared topics of interest around family and community partnerships in a four-state region.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● State Education Agency Leadership Development
This project supports state education agencies (SEAs) as they develop leadership capacity to support and sustain agency priorities and programs.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Making a Difference for American Indian/Alaska Native Students (Innovations and Wise Practices): Virtual Series
This virtual learning series helps tribal and state education agency (SEA) leaders focus on remedies to persistent challenges faced by American Indian/Alaska Native students. The series emphasizes tribal and state partnerships that have resulted in new policies; tribal, state, education, business, and philanthropic partnerships that have improved educational opportunities and outcomes for Native students; and research opportunities that could add to the knowledge base in support of these students.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
● Making a Difference for American Indian/Alaska Native Students (Innovations and Wise Practices): Virtual Series
This virtual learning series helps tribal and state education agency (SEA) leaders focus on remedies to persistent challenges faced by American Indian/Alaska Native students. The series emphasizes tribal and state partnerships that have resulted in new policies; tribal, state, education, business, and philanthropic partnerships that have improved educational opportunities and outcomes for Native students; and research opportunities that could add to the knowledge base in support of these students.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Cross-State American Indian Education Directors’ Community of Practice
This Community of Practice (CoP) helps Indian Education Directors in six states address the academic challenges that face American Indian/Alaska Native peoples, incorporating the rich cultural assets that Indigenous students, families, communities, and nations bring as successful solutions to these issues.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
Colorado
Regional Center: Region 12 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Using Place-Based Decision Making to Strengthen the Colorado Educator Workforce Pipeline
This project uses place-based decision making, notably a geographic information system (GIS) map, to analyze, identify, and plan actions to address workforce pipeline factors that influence educator shortages in Colorado.
Partner Center(s): Region 12 Comprehensive Center
● Colorado Dropout Prevention Framework Update and Refresh Project
This project updates and refreshes the existing Colorado Dropout Prevention Framework, focusing on the use of continuous improvement as a tool for dropout prevention and student re-engagement efforts.
Partner Center(s): Region 12 Comprehensive Center
● ESSER/ESSA Monitoring Self-assessment Feedback
This project helps the Colorado Department of Education’s (CDE) Federal Programs and Supports Unit implement a monitoring self-assessment that will help the CDE capture school district compliance and monitor training and technical assistance strategies.
Partner Center(s): Region 12 Comprehensive Center
Connecticut
Regional Center: Region 2 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Regional Collaborative on Strengthening the Educator Workforce
With help from R1CC, the Centers will host three regional virtual cafés focused on understanding the landscape of educator-workforce challenges and identify appropriate solutions through data. The Centers will also host an in-person regional convening to share best practices to address educator shortages.
Partner Center(s): Region 2 Comprehensive Center
Delaware
Regional Center: Region 4 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Review of Annual Employee Evaluation Process
This work with the Delaware Department of Education reviews the implementation and impact of its internal employee evaluation system.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
● DE Principal Supervisor Leadership Project
This project provides principal supervisors with a professional learning community that focuses on the principal supervisor standards and how they align to the coaching and support of principals as they become instructional leaders.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
● Addressing the identification, recruitment, and retention of a diverse workforce (ARP Supplement)
The Center works cross-regionally to improve the diversity, quality, and retention of effective teachers and leaders.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
District of Columbia
Regional Center: Region 4 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Addressing the identification, recruitment, and retention of a diverse workforce (ARP Supplement)
The Center works cross-regionally to improve the diversity, quality, and retention of effective teachers and leaders.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
● OSSE Juvenile Justice System Review
This partnership with the DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) reviews how the current system provides special education services to justice-involved youth and identifies potential changes to current policies and procedures that help limit disruptions in the provisions of these services.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
Federated States of Micronesia
Regional Center: Region 18 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Federated States of Micronesia: Teacher Induction and Mentoring
This project helps the state education agency (SEA) leadership of the Federated States of Micronesia design and implement a multi-year teacher induction and mentoring program, thus cultivating a more stable and skilled teaching force, and increasing teacher retention rates.
Partner Center(s): Region 18 Comprehensive Center
● Pohnpei & Kosrae: Strengthening Supports for Multilingual Learners
This project works with the Pohnpei Department of Education and the Kosrae Department of Education to support Multilingual Learners, including the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of language policy to improve student outcomes within multilingual and multicultural communities.
Partner Center(s): Region 18 Comprehensive Center
● Federated States of Micronesia: Data Literacy & Communication
This project supports the Federated States of Micronesia National Department of Education as it builds capacity in interpreting and communicating data, thus assisting states, schools, parents/communities, and students in understanding results and ultimately using data for improvement.
Partner Center(s): Region 18 Comprehensive Center
● Chuuk: Strategic Planning & Performance Management
This project assists the Chuuk Department of Education leadership and staff as they revise and implement their strategic plan, track and report progress, and use progress data to adjust the plan and work to achieve their strategic goals.
Partner Center(s): Region 18 Comprehensive Center
● Chuuk: Quality Lesson Planning
This project will assist the Chuuk Department of Education (CDOE) specialists and other designated team members as they assess and revise their current lesson planning management, structure, and lesson plan template, with a focus on creating quality lesson plans.
Partner Center(s): Region 18 Comprehensive Center
Florida
Regional Center: Region 7 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Implementation of Florida's Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards
This project co-develops leadership, infrastructure, resources, communication, and engagement standards for English language arts and math and will scale to additional schools and districts throughout the five-year project.
Partner Center(s): Region 7 Comprehensive Center
● Building and Supporting Effective School Leaders
This partnership with the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) implements new state leadership standards, creates new principal preparation approval standards, develops a process for the state and stakeholders to review principal preparation programs, and provides training to school leaders on practice profiles aligned to the new Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (BEST) Standards.
Partner Center(s): Region 7 Comprehensive Center
● Florida PreK–3 Literacy
This initiative focuses on evidence-based practices in PreK–3 literacy instruction, assessment, intervention, professional learning, and literacy leadership to improve district early-literacy programs and outcomes.
Partner Center(s): Region 7 Comprehensive Center
Georgia
Regional Center: Region 6 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Support for Georgia Whole Child Initiative
This pilot program addresses non-academic barriers to improve student learning and well-being.
Partner Center(s): Region 6 Comprehensive Center
● Support for Georgia Dyslexia Pilot Initiative
This initiative with the Georgia Department of Education uses Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) processes at the school level to identify and intervene with K–3 students who experience reading difficulties such as dyslexia.
Partner Center(s): Region 6 Comprehensive Center
● Support for Georgia’s GaLEADS Pilot
This pilot involves 10–12 districts planning and then implementing a new teacher evaluation system that emphasizes growth and development.
Partner Center(s): Region 6 Comprehensive Center
● Support for Alternative Learning Programs and Schools in North Carolina
This program with North Carolina Department of Public Instruction helps Alternative Learning Program principals and teachers develop a statewide Community of Practice that includes problem solving, professional development, and data-driven conversations to strengthen the improvement plans of alternative schools.
Partner Center(s): Region 6 Comprehensive Center
● Strengthening Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS): A 3-State Collaborative
This collaboration supports state education agencies in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina understand the successes and challenges districts and schools experience when implementing a Multi-Tiered System of Support to improve student achievement, social-emotional development, and student behavior.
Partner Center(s): Region 6 Comprehensive Center
Guam
Regional Center: Region 18 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Guam: Strategic Planning & Performance Management, School Improvement, and Program Evaluation
This project assists the Guam Department of Education as they design, implement, and support an integrated system focusing on Strategic Planning and Performance Management, School Improvement, and Program Evaluation.
Partner Center(s): Region 18 Comprehensive Center
● Guam: Strengthening and Scaling Public Pre-kindergarten
This project with the Guam Department of Education focuses on organizational and human capacity in planning, evidence-based practices (EBPs), program evaluation, and stakeholder engagement to strengthen and scale public prekindergarten, with particular emphasis on social-emotional learning (SEL).
Partner Center(s): Region 18 Comprehensive Center
● Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Supplemental Funding to Support American Rescue Plan-Outlying Area Plan Implementation
This project supports the Guam Department of Education and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Public School System as they implement and monitor their American Recue Plan-Outlying Area State Educational Agency Implementation Plans, with an eye to helping the state education agency’s ability to sustain critical services beyond the end of this funding stream.
Partner Center(s): Region 18 Comprehensive Center
Hawaii
Regional Center: Region 19 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Capacity Building for Multilingualism
In this project, the Hawai‘i Department of Education will implement and monitor the Multilingualism for Equitable Education Policy in K–12 classrooms; conduct a review of the World Readiness Standards for Learning Languages; and integrate evidence-based practices to strengthen policies, systems, and practices for multilingual students.
Partner Center(s): Region 19 Comprehensive Center
● Strategic Planning, Performance Management & Effectiveness
This project helps the Hawai‘i State Public Charter School Commission as they implement a Strategic Performance Management system, develop a performance management cycle, and use progress data for continuous improvement purposes.
Partner Center(s): Region 19 Comprehensive Center
● Equity & School Performance
In this project, the Hawai‘i Department of Education is integrating equity considerations into student support systems to improve school performance. This project features the Transformation Academy and Culture Shift Institute, a scaffolded training series targeting instructional leadership and school improvement practices.
Partner Center(s): Region 19 Comprehensive Center
● English Language Arts Standards Revision
In this project, the Hawai‘i Department of Education will revise English Language Arts (ELA) standards and build educator capacity to implement said revised standards.
Partner Center(s): Region 19 Comprehensive Center
● Capacity Building Supports for American Rescue Plan Implementation
This project helps the American Samoa Department of Education and Hawai'i Department of Education to implement the American Rescue Plan social-emotional learning project implementation and improve reporting capacity.
Partner Center(s): Region 19 Comprehensive Center
● Capacity Building for Continuity of Learning
This project supports all the regional state educational agencies (SEAs) in the region as they build capacity to respond to disruptions, such as those caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, seasonal typhoons, regional disease outbreaks such as dengue fever, and other systemic stressors.
Partner Center(s): Region 19 Comprehensive Center
Idaho
Regional Center: Region 17 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Evidence Based Literacy Professional Development
This project creates evidence-based professional development materials that use research-based strategies to help increase the reading ability and engagement of students in grades 4–8. These materials also support multilingual learners in grades K–8 as they develop the academic content and literacy skills they need to succeed in school.
Partner Center(s): Region 17 Comprehensive Center
● Federal Programs Strategic Planning
This project supports the Idaho State Department of Education (ISDE) federal programs team as they connect program-level inputs, outputs, and outcomes. The team will create a logic model, measurement plan, and a plan for monitoring the progress of each federal education program active in Idaho, include monitoring use of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds at the district level.
Partner Center(s): Region 17 Comprehensive Center
● Reading Coach Academy
Idaho’s Striving to Meet Achievement in Reading Together (SMART) project is a K-3 statewide project to advance teacher knowledge of evidence-based literacy instruction. This project will continue a second year of the Reading Coach Academy, working with up to five districts in Idaho, focusing on coaching that supports classroom teachers.
Partner Center(s): Region 17 Comprehensive Center
● Trauma Informed Professional Development
This project provides professional development training on trauma-informed practice to school nurses. The initial audience for the training series is the 16 school nurses whose positions are funded by the Idaho State Department of Education (ISDE), as well as the state coordinator at ISDE. Trainings include facilitator guides, and pre- and post-content surveys. Trainings will be evaluated, revised and then re-offered to other school nurses in Idaho.
Partner Center(s): Region 17 Comprehensive Center
● NW RISE: A Rural Collaborative
The NW RISE Network brings together teachers and leaders from some of the most isolated and remote communities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and Washington. A network of schools helping schools—especially isolated ones—can raise achievement and increase student engagement by sharing relevant, practical advice that actually works for rural communities.
Partner Center(s): Region 17 Comprehensive Center
● National Collaborations (National Comprehensive Center workgroup participation)
This project, a collaboration between The Region 17 Comprehensive Center, the National Center, and other regional comprehensive centers, supports states in addressing immediate policy and practice issues.
Partner Center(s): Region 17 Comprehensive Center
● State Standards Revisions
This project will develop a process to review and revise state academic standards. The process features workgroups of teachers, administrators, families, and other community members who work to reduce redundancies, simplify language, and prioritize concepts.
Partner Center(s): Region 17 Comprehensive Center
● Making a Difference for American Indian/Alaska Native Students (Innovations and Wise Practices): Virtual Series
This virtual learning series helps tribal and state education agency (SEA) leaders focus on remedies to persistent challenges faced by American Indian/Alaska Native students. The series emphasizes tribal and state partnerships that have resulted in new policies; tribal, state, education, business, and philanthropic partnerships that have improved educational opportunities and outcomes for Native students; and research opportunities that could add to the knowledge base in support of these students.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
Illinois
Regional Center: Region 9 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Continuous Improvement for Statewide Plan for Teacher Recruitment, Retention, and Recognition in Illinois
This project builds Illinois State Board of Education’s (ISBE) technical expertise to create and maintain a geographic information system (GIS) map, allowing stakeholders to better understand factors affecting educator-shortage challenges and share effective practices with other Illinois stakeholders.
Partner Center(s): Region 9 Comprehensive Center
● Continuous Improvement for Implementation of IL-EMPOWER
This effort collaborates with the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) to assist with IL-EMPOWER to improve schools by ensuring they align to the 2020–34 plan and coordinating communities of practice.
Partner Center(s): Region 9 Comprehensive Center
● IL Wellness Initiatives Inventory and Analysis
This initiative supports the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) through the development of a cross-departmental logic model, analysis of data, and revisions to state social-emotional learning standards.
Partner Center(s): Region 9 Comprehensive Center
● IL Career and Technical Education
This project works with Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) on the Illinois Perkins V state plan, which empowers all students to achieve their life and career goals through an aligned, equitable, and high-quality career pathway system.
Partner Center(s): Region 9 Comprehensive Center
● IL Resource Allocation Reviews
This collaboration with the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) uses a multi-tiered approach to Resource Allocation Review (RAR) that provides scaffolded support to schools or districts based on school improvement identification and number of years identified. The team is also revising a new community financial meeting toolkit for district leaders.
Partner Center(s): Region 9 Comprehensive Center
● IL Literacy Planning Support
This project co-facilitated a stakeholder meeting with Illinois State Board of Education to receive feedback on the needs of teachers, schools, and districts regarding the literacy development needs of their students.
Partner Center(s): Region 9 Comprehensive Center
● Region 9 Collaboration
This Center collaborates with other Regional Comprehensive Centers and the National Comprehensive Center to detect trends and best practices for states and jurisdictions as they integrate evidence-based practices.
Partner Center(s): Region 9 Comprehensive Center
● Effective Use and Sustainability of American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) Funds Community of Practice (Supplemental Funding)
This initiative facilitates a Community of Practice for local education agency (LEA) leaders in Illinois and Iowa focused on supporting implementation and sustainability of American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief plans to address the impact of lost instructional time.
Partner Center(s): Region 9 Comprehensive Center
Indiana
Regional Center: Region 8 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Employability Skills Standards
This collaborative with the Indiana Department of Education assists the implementation of targeted employability skills standards by grantees and will include identified resources, professional learning sessions, and Communities of Practice for grantees.
Partner Center(s): Region 8 Comprehensive Center
● Attract, Prepare, Retain Indiana Excellent Educators
This initiative lifts the Indiana Department of Education’s efforts to recruit and retain teachers by assisting with the development of a resource library and the facilitation of a Communities of Practice for mentors.
Partner Center(s): Region 8 Comprehensive Center
● Cross-state Summer Accelerated Learning Program Bootcamp
This project integrates Accelerated Learning instructional practices into summer programming across the region and provides districts with virtual learning sessions and coaching to implement Accelerated Learning instructional strategies.
Partner Center(s): Region 8 Comprehensive Center
● Community of Practice: Driving Toward Equity Through School Improvement
In this Community of Practice, state education agency and district leaders learn with and from each other about the use of equity indicators to address disparities in outcomes and opportunities to learn.
Partner Center(s): National Comprehensive Center
Iowa
Regional Center: Region 9 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Region 9 Collaboration
This Center collaborates with other Regional Comprehensive Centers and the National Comprehensive Center to detect trends and best practices for states and jurisdictions as they integrate evidence-based practices.
Partner Center(s): Region 9 Comprehensive Center
● Effective Use and Sustainability of American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) Funds Community of Practice (Supplemental Funding)
This initiative facilitates a Community of Practice for local education agency (LEA) leaders in Illinois and Iowa focused on supporting implementation and sustainability of American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief plans to address the impact of lost instructional time.
Partner Center(s): Region 9 Comprehensive Center
Kansas
Regional Center: Region 12 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Kansans Can
This project assists the Kansas State Department of Education in transformational school design, implementing a student-focused system with three branches: social-emotional growth, kindergarten readiness, and postsecondary success.
Partner Center(s): Region 12 Comprehensive Center
Kentucky
Regional Center: Region 5 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Networked Improvement Community with Kentucky Department of Education
This initiative builds capacity for the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE), employing a continuous improvement model, identifying promising practices, and implementing science frameworks in online digital learning.
Partner Center(s): Region 5 Comprehensive Center
● Support for the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) team
This plan with the Kentucky Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) team improves equity in advanced placement (AP) courses, implements a social-emotional learning (SEL) framework, executes a series of book studies on DEIB topics, and provides leadership coaching.
Partner Center(s): Region 5 Comprehensive Center
● Implementing the Strategic Plan with the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE)
This collaboration with the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) works to better address teacher shortages and implement their plan, "United We Learn."
Partner Center(s): Region 5 Comprehensive Center
Louisiana
Regional Center: Region 14 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Educator Evaluation Systems Design Support
This project helps the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) to collect and analyze educator feedback to inform the upcoming redesign of LDOE's statewide educator evaluation systems.
Partner Center(s): Region 14 Comprehensive Center
● ESSER Analysis LDOE
This project will help the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) evaluate investments made by Louisiana school districts using federal COVID-19 relief funds. The goal is to identify academic interventions that helped schools and school districts minimize or mitigate the learning loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Partner Center(s): Region 14 Comprehensive Center
● Individual Graduation Planning LDOE
This project helps the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) design a statewide graduation planning system to enable Louisiana schools and school districts to keep as many students as possible on track for high school graduation.
Partner Center(s): Region 14 Comprehensive Center
● Building Capacity of School Systems to work with Industry
This project helps the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) create partnerships between school districts and local industry in order to provide valuable job skills and experience to Louisiana students.
Partner Center(s): Region 14 Comprehensive Center
Maine
Regional Center: Region 1 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Supporting Maine’s Education Innovation and Improvement Through Rethinking K-12 Models Education Grant
This effort will support the development of impact stories to share the work and support the implementation of the Rethinking Remote Education Ventures (RREV) grants.
Partner Center(s): Region 1 Comprehensive Center
● Maine School Administrative Unit Pilot: Educator Workforce Data Collection and Utilization (ARP Supplement)
This tool, supported by the Maine Department of Education, collects educator workforce data alongside school administrative units to understand local and state educator workforce needs and to inform educator talent management policy and strategies.
Partner Center(s): Region 1 Comprehensive Center
● Maine’s Whole Student Approach Strategic Planning
This partnership with the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) articulates how Maine’s Whole Student Approach will serve as a roadmap to improve outcomes for Maine’s learners and educators through technical assistance activities.
Partner Center(s): Region 1 Comprehensive Center
Marshall Islands
Regional Center: Region 19 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Strengthening Educator Effectiveness
This project helps the Republic of the Marshall Islands Ministry of Education design and implement teacher and principal evaluation systems and ensure that all students have access to effective educators.
Partner Center(s): Region 19 Comprehensive Center
● Capacity Building for Continuity of Learning
This project supports all the regional state educational agencies (SEAs) in the region as they build capacity to respond to disruptions, such as those caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, seasonal typhoons, regional disease outbreaks such as dengue fever, and other systemic stressors.
Partner Center(s): Region 19 Comprehensive Center
Maryland
Regional Center: Region 4 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● MD Superintendent's Academy
This work, aiding the Maryland Superintendent Academy, builds the bench of future Maryland superintendents, provides participants with an advantage in the hiring process, and offers practical experiences that will support the transition to the superintendency.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
● Calvert County Next Level Principal Leadership Academy
This pipeline with Calvert County Next Level Academy provides participants with an advantage in the hiring process and practical experiences that will support the transition to the principalship.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
● MD New Superintendent
The Maryland Superintendent Academy helps new district leaders make a successful transition to district leadership and decreases the level of turnover in leadership positions.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
● Next Level Maryland Leadership Academy
Next Level Maryland Leadership Academies and other stakeholders have teamed up to launch a grow your own model for school leadership, preparing participants for assistant principal and principal positions.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
● Eastern Shore of Maryland Educational Consortium Principal Support Project
This project assists new principals in establishing systems in their buildings that support a culture of learning and help retain leaders.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
● Addressing the identification, recruitment, and retention of a diverse workforce (ARP Supplement)
The Center works cross-regionally to improve the diversity, quality, and retention of effective teachers and leaders.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
Massachusetts
Regional Center: Region 1 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Massachusetts Literacy Intervention Selection Tool
The tool allows users to identify interventions matched to students’ needs in Grades 4–12 and also provides resources and guidance to support educators in using the tool.
Partner Center(s): Region 1 Comprehensive Center
● Massachusetts: Supporting Students With Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE) Screener Development Support
also provides resources and guidance to support educators in using the tool.
Partner Center(s): Region 1 Comprehensive Center
● Massachusetts: Revising the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)’s Mentoring and Induction Survey
This initiative supports Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) engage stakeholders to review and revise their mentoring and induction survey to retain novice teachers. It will help DESE analyze past mentoring survey data, identify new questions for inclusion, and explore strategies for increasing data quality.
Partner Center(s): Region 1 Comprehensive Center
Michigan
Regional Center: Region 8 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Implementation of School-Based Comprehensive Mental Health Systems
This project helps the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) develop appropriate structures and guidance to build the capacity of schools, districts, and other educational settings to establish sustainable and comprehensive school-based mental health systems that align with state and federal policies in a fiscally responsible manner.
Partner Center(s): Region 8 Comprehensive Center
● Early Literacy Excellence
This collaboration with the Michigan Department of Education identifies what needs to be in place to help educators establish family-school partnerships that support students’ early literacy learning and increase educators’ pedagogy with diverse learners.
Partner Center(s): Region 8 Comprehensive Center
● High School Pathways to Education and Youth Development Careers in MI
This project continues to assist the Michigan Department of Education in establishing opportunities for high school students to earn credentials as a first step toward careers in education and youth development and a statewide effort to grow and diversify Michigan’s educator workforce.
Partner Center(s): Region 8 Comprehensive Center
● Expanding Summer and Out-of-School Time Learning Opportunities in MI
The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) and its partners expand summer and out-of-school time opportunities for all students in Michigan.
Partner Center(s): Region 8 Comprehensive Center
● Student Leadership for Inclusive Schools
This project assists the Michigan Department of Education with the structures, practices, and guidance needed at the state and local levels to build the capacity of local districts to engage students in authentic decisionmaking, collaboration, and leadership.
Partner Center(s): Region 8 Comprehensive Center
● Cross-state Summer Accelerated Learning Program Bootcamp
This project integrates Accelerated Learning instructional practices into summer programming across the region and provides districts with virtual learning sessions and coaching to implement Accelerated Learning instructional strategies.
Partner Center(s): Region 8 Comprehensive Center
● Community of Practice: Driving Toward Equity Through School Improvement
In this Community of Practice, state education agency and district leaders learn with and from each other about the use of equity indicators to address disparities in outcomes and opportunities to learn.
Partner Center(s): National Comprehensive Center
Minnesota
Regional Center: Region 10 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● LEA Projects for Minnesota - As Needed
This project helps local education agency (LEA) leaders and regional organizations in Minnesota identify quick turnaround technical assistance projects which address emerging needs.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● Development & Implementation of Minnesota Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MnMTSS) Framework
This initiative uses networked improvement communities (NICs) to provide feedback on the Minnesota Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MnMTSS) framework as it is being implemented.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● MnMTSS, Part A: MTSS Coordination and Infrastructure
This project helps the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) convene coordinated teams and develop infrastructure to support the development and statewide implementation of the Minnesota Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MnMTSS).
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● MnMTSS, Part B: MnMTSS Roadmap and District Self-Evaluation Tool
This project refines the Minnesota Multi-Tiered System of Supports MnMTSS Roadmap, creating a Self-Evaluation of MnMTSS Implementation (SEMI) guide for the MnMTSS Framework. The roadmap is based on feedback from a Networked Improvement Community (NIC).
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● MnMTSS, Part C: Statewide MnMTSS Survey
This initiative supports the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) as it revises and fields a statewide survey on the implementation of the Minnesota Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MnMTSS). The survey will be revised based on item analysis, factor analysis, and response patterns of previous annual surveys.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● MnMTSS, Part D: MnMTSS Fiscal Guide
This initiative creates a Fiscal Guide to help Minnesota local education agencies (LEAs) secure funding for local Minnesota Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MnMTSS) implementation.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● MnMTSS, Part G: Data System Guide
This project develops a Minnesota Data System Guide to map the different data systems that describe local Minnesota Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MnMTSS) processes and outcomes, and to guide school districts as they establish and manage data systems for MnMTSS implementation.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● MnMTSS Handbook
This initiative is creating a handbook for the Minnesota Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MnMTSS) to serve as an exemplar for local education agencies (LEAs) as they develop their own local MTSS handbooks.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● MnMTSS Capacity-Building NIC for Regional Center of Excellence Partnership team
This project, in conjunction with the Regional Center of Excellence Partnership team, will develop professional learning opportunities related to the Minnesota Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MnMTSS). The project includes pilot training as part of the state's rollout of the COMPASS initiative, MnMTSS coaching, and the development of a set of synchronous and asynchronous (on-demand) trainings.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● Asynchronous Content Mini-Modules re MnMTSS
This project helps the Minnesota Department of Education develop on-demand resources (eventually available as a Canvas course), to assist local education agencies (LEAs) with implementation of the Minnesota Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MnMTSS).
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● ELA Curriculum Review Guide
This project assists the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) as they create an English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum review tool to help local education agencies (LEAs) as they consider and adopt ELA curricula. Support for the tool will be provided through a Networked Improvement Community (NIC) framework across multiple LEAs.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● School Self-Assessment Measure (SEMI-School)
This project is developing a self-assessment measure to help schools conduct a Self Evaluation of Minnesota Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MnMTSS) Implementation (SEMI). Schools and related community agencies can use this measure to assess, plan, and implement MnMTSS.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● Early Warning System
This Network Improvement Community (NIC) will conduct monthly meetings to implement and evaluate the Minnesota Early Indicator and Response System (MIERS), notably how MIERS aligns with the framework of the Minnesota Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MnMTSS). MEIRS is a universal screening tool that can be used to determine the effectiveness of K-12 Tier 1 practices and identify which students might require additional support.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
Mississippi
Regional Center: Region 7 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Mississippi Comprehensive Literacy
This project expands on the success of the Mississippi's K–3 literacy model by facilitating the implementation of literacy instruction and interventions in all grade-levels through the support of literacy leadership and the collaborative development of instructional tools and resources.
Partner Center(s): Region 7 Comprehensive Center
● Mississippi Equitable Access to Effective Educators
This plan continues the capacity-building assistance provided over the past three years to support the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) by revising the training required for new leaders to obtain licensure.
Partner Center(s): Region 7 Comprehensive Center
● Community Engagement Councils in Mississippi
This initiative aids the Mississippi Department of Education’s (MDE) Office of School Improvement as they engage stakeholders in refining guidelines for and increasing awareness of the Mississippi P-16 Community Engagement Councils.
Partner Center(s): Region 7 Comprehensive Center
● Mississippi English Learner Proficiency Standards Alignment Peer Review Support
This project helps the Mississippi Department of Education align the Mississippi English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards to the Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for each required content area (ELA, Math, and Science) and the Mississippi Alternate ELP Standards for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities to the Mississippi Alternate Academic Achievement Standards for each content area (ELA, Math, and Science).
Partner Center(s): Region 7 Comprehensive Center
● Mississippi Comprehensive Mental Health Support System
This strategy uses American Rescue Plan funds to help the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) and three or four local school districts develop a comprehensive three-tiered system for school mental health.
Partner Center(s): Region 7 Comprehensive Center
● Community of Practice: Driving Toward Equity Through School Improvement
In this Community of Practice, state education agency and district leaders learn with and from each other about the use of equity indicators to address disparities in outcomes and opportunities to learn.
Partner Center(s): National Comprehensive Center
Missouri
Regional Center: Region 12 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Missouri Leadership Development System
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education will evaluate and expand the Missouri Leadership Development System (MLDS), identifying vital school improvement data and building a rubric to help school-level teams assess their school improvement plans.
Partner Center(s): Region 12 Comprehensive Center
● Missouri Common Formative Assessment
In this project, focusing on kindergarten through grade 3, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) will use the Missouri Common Formative Assessment project to build blueprints and develop content for formative assessments and supporting materials.
Partner Center(s): Region 12 Comprehensive Center
● Signature Project: Responding to Disruption: Stories from the Field
These stories share the experiences of educators and policymakers as they responded to COVID-19 while lifting promising practices, describing how stimulus funds spurred recovery, and identifying learned lessons and innovations.
Partner Center(s): National Comprehensive Center
Montana
Regional Center: Region 17 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Educator Workforce Redesign
This project uses an innovative approach for teacher preparation and the teaching profession in Montana that features a residency pilot to address teacher shortages and prepare teachers to become facilitators of learning in an ever-changing world.
Partner Center(s): Region 17 Comprehensive Center
● Implementing a Through-Year Assessment System in Montana
In August 2022, the Montana Office of Public Instruction (OPI) was awarded a four-year Competitive Grant for State Assessments (CGSA) to develop and scale an innovative assessment system of modular tests in grades 3-8 mathematics and English language arts. In the first year of the grant, this initiative will review best practices for establishing a through-year assessment as a summative assessment, engage stakeholders to ensure that test items reflect local context, and build capacity for data literacy and data-driven instruction.
Partner Center(s): Region 17 Comprehensive Center
Nebraska
Regional Center: Region 11 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Developing Systems to Improve Outcomes for English Learners in Schools Receiving Targeted Support and Improvement and Additional Targeted Support and Improvement
This project focuses on improving systems and supports to help meet the needs of English learners in TSI and ATSI schools.
Partner Center(s): Region 11 Comprehensive Center
● Evaluating Nebraska’s State Content Area Standards Revision Process
This partnership with the American Institutes for Research supports the Nebraska Department of Education with an external review of their content area standards revision process.
Partner Center(s): Region 11 Comprehensive Center
● Tailored Learning Acceleration Approaches in the R11CC
This project defines post-pandemic accelerated and tailored learning practices, identifying examples where these practices have had a positive impact on student learning outcomes.
Partner Center(s): Region 11 Comprehensive Center
● Network Capacity Building
This project focuses on building capacity among state education agencies (SEAs).
Partner Center(s): Region 11 Comprehensive Center
Nevada
Regional Center: Region 15 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Improving Access to State-Funded High Quality Pre-Kindergarten Classrooms
This project helps the Nevada Department of Education leverage strategic planning, strategic communications, and cross-state partnership to significantly increase the number of state-funded, high-quality pre-K seats.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Implementation of English Language Development Standards Framework
This project helps the Nevada Department of Education provide consistent guidance and high-quality teacher education and educator professional learning resources in order to support evidence-based teaching and learning, resulting in improved academic outcomes for English learner students.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Strengthening Data Infrastructure & Governance
This initiative guides the Nevada Department of Education (NDE) with workshops and other targeted technical assistance on data governance and infrastructure, clear data reporting, and improved data literacy to support NDE’s strategic vision (State-wide Plan for the Improvement of Pupil or STIP) with better data management and communication.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● STIP (State-wide Plan for the Improvement of Pupils) Implementation
This project assists the Nevada Department of Education (NDE) as it implements, monitors progress of, and updates the State-wide Plan for the Improvement of Pupils (STIP) with fidelity, maintaining alignment with other state improvement efforts.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Every Student Succeeds Act More Rigorous Options
This project seeks to reduce the number of schools in Comprehensive Support and Improvement status in Nevada. The project will pilot evidence-based, contextually appropriate More Rigorous Options in targeted schools.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Educator Shortages, Recruitment, and Retention
In this project, the Nevada Department of Education (NDE) supports the work of the Nevada State Teacher Recruitment and Retention Advisory Task Force, focusing on data and evidence-based practices to mitigate challenges in teacher recruitment and retention.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Coaching Support for K-12 English Language Arts Program
This project provides coaching support and technical assistance to the Nevada Department of Education K-12 English Language Arts Program, notably to advance the work of the Nevada Adolescent Literacy Network (NALN), including continuous improvement and equity.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Resource Allocation Review
This Resource Allocation Review project supports the Nevada Department of Education (NDE) as it develops a process to conduct periodic reviews of resource allocation methods in low-performing schools and their local education agencies (LEAs).
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Cross-State American Indian Education Directors’ Community of Practice
This Community of Practice (CoP) helps Indian Education Directors in six states address the academic challenges that face American Indian/Alaska Native peoples, incorporating the rich cultural assets that Indigenous students, families, communities, and nations bring as successful solutions to these issues.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
New Hampshire
Regional Center: Region 1 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● New Hampshire Education-to-Workforce GIS Project
This project helps people use a recently developed geographic information system (GIS) map and visualize how career and technical education (CTE) programs align to high-wage, high-demand occupations statewide and by county.
Partner Center(s): Region 1 Comprehensive Center
New Jersey
Regional Center: Region 4 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Maximizing “Option Two,” NJ’s Alternative High School Course Completion Program
The Center helps the New Jersey Department of Education maximize students’ use of the Option 2 provision to access individualized learning opportunities to meet high school graduation requirements.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
● Strengthening Dual Enrollment Policies and Programs in New Jersey
This project supports the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) in identifying best practices and developing a toolkit to help districts increase dual enrollment options.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
● Helping NJ Understand Local Staffing Shortages
This project assists the New Jersey Department of Education understand local staffing shortages and retention issues and develop policy and program developments or modifications.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
● New Jersey Preschool-3rd Grade Instruction
This collaboration with the New Jersey Department of Education updates the “Approaches to Learning” practice guide for preschool–3rd grade to incorporate current research on developmentally appropriate practices based on how young children learn best.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
● Expanding LEAs’ Use of Effective Community-Based Partnerships
This partnership with the New Jersey Department of Education identifies best practices and resources to help districts increase high-quality community partnerships.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
New Mexico
Regional Center: Region 13 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● NMPED Process Improvement
This project helps the New Mexico Public Education Department develop process improvement skills and practices.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
● New Mexico Educator Growth and Development/New Mexico Principal Evaluation
In this project, the New Mexico Public Education Department will revise its Principal Evaluation System, incorporating recommendations made by the 2021 Principal Evaluation Task Force.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
● NM Practitioners’ Guide for Serving English Learners with Disabilities and Follow-Up Training for Implementation
The first phase of this effort will create a Practitioner’s Guide for the New Mexico Public Education Department that outlines the state’s system for identifying English learners with disabilities, and how to support these students with best instructional practices. The second phase will train an initial cohort of district leaders to implement the Practitioner’s Guide.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
● NMPED Martinez Yazzie Response
This effort supports the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) as they respond to the Martinez-Yazzie court order requiring New Mexico’s education system to provide an equitable education for its most underrepresented students. Strategies to include: significant professional development on culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy, anti-bias work, meeting the unique needs of students with disabilities, and supporting the behavioral needs of all students.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
● NM LEA ARP: Supporting LEAs in the strategic planning and use of ARP funds (Supplemental)
This project helps the New Mexico PED support and assist local education agencies (LEAs) in the strategic planning and use of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds and the implementation of LEA American Rescue Plans.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
● Cross-State American Indian Education Directors’ Community of Practice
This Community of Practice (CoP) helps Indian Education Directors in six states address the academic challenges that face American Indian/Alaska Native peoples, incorporating the rich cultural assets that Indigenous students, families, communities, and nations bring as successful solutions to these issues.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
● Signature Project: Responding to Disruption: Stories from the Field
These stories share the experiences of educators and policymakers as they responded to COVID-19 while lifting promising practices, describing how stimulus funds spurred recovery, and identifying learned lessons and innovations.
Partner Center(s): National Comprehensive Center
New York
Regional Center: Region 2 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Strengthening Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education in New York
This project supports New York State Education Department (NYSED)—in collaboration with key stakeholders—with identifying and promoting practices, tools, and resources to support implementation of the state’s Culturally Responsive-Sustaining (CR-S) Education Framework.
Partner Center(s): Region 2 Comprehensive Center
● Supporting New York with Reviewing High School Graduation Measures
This effort provides the New York State Education Department and the Board of Regents with research about what it means to be college, career, and civic ready to inform the work of the Blue Ribbon Commission that makes recommendations regarding New York’s graduation requirements.
Partner Center(s): Region 2 Comprehensive Center
● Facilitating Strategic Planning for the Office of Teacher and Leader Development at NYSED
This effort supports the New York State Education Department (NYSED) Office of Higher Education with planning to attract, prepare, recruit, support, and retain teachers and leaders.
Partner Center(s): Region 2 Comprehensive Center
North Carolina
Regional Center: Region 6 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Building the Capacity of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to Support CSI School Principals and Coaches Implementing Innovative Partnership Grants (IPGs)
This project increases the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s capacity to address their efficiency of services to, and create a common purpose among, Comprehensive Support and Improvement schools.
Partner Center(s): Region 6 Comprehensive Center
● Improved, Equitable Early School Experiences in North Carolina
This initiative provides resources and mentoring for a professional development initiative focused on ensuring equitable access to early-learning environments.
Partner Center(s): Region 6 Comprehensive Center
● Building Engineers in K-5 Classrooms
This project is creating a two-year plan with a leadership team to provide science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education in K–5 classrooms.
Partner Center(s): Region 6 Comprehensive Center
● Community of Practice: Driving Toward Equity Through School Improvement
In this Community of Practice, state education agency and district leaders learn with and from each other about the use of equity indicators to address disparities in outcomes and opportunities to learn.
Partner Center(s): National Comprehensive Center
North Dakota
Regional Center: Region 11 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Accomplishing Effective and Durable Change to Reduce Student Achievement Gaps in North Dakota Schools
This project organizes networked improvement communities to help meet the needs of low-income students and students with disabilities.
Partner Center(s): Region 11 Comprehensive Center
Northern Mariana Islands
Regional Center: Region 18 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Planning, Evaluation & Management
This project builds capacity for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Public School System leadership and staff to implement a Strategic Performance Management system, featuring a performance management cycle and the use of progress data for continuous improvement.
Partner Center(s): Region 18 Comprehensive Center
● Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Accountability & Assessment
This project builds the capacity of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Public School System to design, implement, and support an accountability system that provides a basis for continuous improvement, stakeholder engagement, and increased learning and well-being for all students.
Partner Center(s): Region 18 Comprehensive Center
● Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Career Pathways
This project supports the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Public School System as it implements career pathways across the Commonwealth, thus meeting local industry needs as identified by education and workforce leaders.
Partner Center(s): Region 18 Comprehensive Center
● Building Capacity for Continuity of Learning
This project supports the state educational agencies in the region as they build capacity to respond to disruptions, such as those caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, seasonal typhoons, regional disease outbreaks such as dengue fever, budget shortfalls, and other systemic stressors.
Partner Center(s): Region 18 Comprehensive Center
Ohio
Regional Center: Region 8 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Raising Literacy Achievement in OH
This initiative aids the implementation of Ohio’s Plan to Raise Literacy Achievement for all learners through documenting the impact of state and regional supports, providing professional development to the Ohio Department of Education, identifying new literacy resources, and serving as thought partner for the State Literacy Team and Regional Literacy Network.
Partner Center(s): Region 8 Comprehensive Center
● Diversifying OH's Education Profession
This project assists the Ohio Department of Education as they engage a statewide plan to diversify the education profession and help districts and schools identify and address equity gaps and advance academic excellence for all students.
Partner Center(s): Region 8 Comprehensive Center
● Addressing the Needs of the Whole Child in OH
This project supports the integration of Ohio’s Whole Child Framework across the Ohio Department of Education and the adoption and implementation across Ohio’s districts and schools.
Partner Center(s): Region 8 Comprehensive Center
● Supporting the Continuous Improvement Needs of Districts and Schools in OH
This initiative helps the needs of districts and schools through the regional support team application of Ohio Improvement Process (OIP) priority tools and resources, the design of a unified district/school review tool, and the improvement of the resource allocation review package.
Partner Center(s): Region 8 Comprehensive Center
Oklahoma
Regional Center: Region 13 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● OK Tools to Measurement of Evidence Based Practices for More Rigorous Interventions
This project revises and improves the tools Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) staff use for improvement planning in schools identified for more rigorous interventions under the Comprehensive Support and Intervention (CSI) designation.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
● OK College and Career Readiness
In this project, the Oklahoma State Department of Education expands college and career readiness support to local education agencies (LEAs) and students across the state.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
● Cross-State American Indian Education Directors’ Community of Practice
This Community of Practice (CoP) helps Indian Education Directors in six states address the academic challenges that face American Indian/Alaska Native peoples, incorporating the rich cultural assets that Indigenous students, families, communities, and nations bring as successful solutions to these issues.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
Oregon
Regional Center: Region 16 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Enhancing the Oregon Department of Education Office of Indian
This effort enhances the capacity of Oregon’s Office of Indian Education to increase the awareness, understanding, and availability of tools for Oregon schools to connect, align, and partner with Oregon Tribes.
Partner Center(s): Region 16 Comprehensive Center
● Building Regional Capacity to Address Educational Inequities and Low Student Performance
This initiative encourages shared stewardship and collaboration across the region to create systemic conditions necessary for strong and healthy schools where students, families, and educators thrive and the voices of students, families and communities are heard.
Partner Center(s): Region 16 Comprehensive Center
Palau
Regional Center: Region 18 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Palau: Comprehensive Approach to Transformational Instruction for Student Success
This project supports the Palau Ministry of Education in a comprehensive approach to transformational instruction, including a Ministry-wide needs assessment and data collection.
Partner Center(s): Region 18 Comprehensive Center
Pennsylvania
Regional Center: Region 4 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● PDE Diversifying the Educator Workforce through PEDC (Pennsylvania Educator Diversity Consortium)
This partnership with the Pennsylvania Education Diversity Consortium (PEDC) further defines the mission and vision of the organization; identifies strategies and activities to move the organization's work forward; and finalizes a set of tools to help colleges and universities attract, recruit, and retain students interested in pursuing degrees in education.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
● Pennsylvania Roadmap to Equity in Education
This collaboration with staff from the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) develops an Equity Roadmap, including the development of logic models that establish state effort and focus on ways to move the work into practice.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
● PA PRISE Strategic Planning
This plan supports the Philadelphia Institute for STEM Education (PRISE) by establishing a framework for sustainability and governance, facilitating focus groups, developing a logic model, and more to grow and sustain a diverse K–12 STEM teaching workforce in Philadelphia.
Partner Center(s): Region 4 Comprehensive Center
● Signature Project: Responding to Disruption: Stories from the Field
These stories share the experiences of educators and policymakers as they responded to COVID-19 while lifting promising practices, describing how stimulus funds spurred recovery, and identifying learned lessons and innovations.
Partner Center(s): National Comprehensive Center
● Community of Practice: Driving Toward Equity Through School Improvement
In this Community of Practice, state education agency and district leaders learn with and from each other about the use of equity indicators to address disparities in outcomes and opportunities to learn.
Partner Center(s): National Comprehensive Center
Puerto Rico
Regional Center: Region 3 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Professional Development
This project helps strengthen the Puerto Rico Department of Education's centralized Institute for Professional Development by streamlining the professional development delivery and monitoring systems and establishing teacher pipelines to fulfill critical shortages.
Partner Center(s): Region 3 Comprehensive Center
● Family and Community Engagement
This partnership with the Puerto Rico Department of Education's Family and Community Engagement Activities improves community-school relations, family and community involvement, and student achievement and well-being.
Partner Center(s): Region 3 Comprehensive Center
Rhode Island
Regional Center: Region 2 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Supporting the Rhode Island Department of Education's Chief Equity and Diversity Officer to Ensure Equitable and Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Policies, Procedures, and Practices
This initiative provides coaching and technical assistance to the newly appointed Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) Chief Equity and Diversity Officer to center equity throughout RIDE’s policies, practices, and procedure.
Partner Center(s): Region 2 Comprehensive Center
● Supporting Development and Implementation of Rhode Island's Blueprint for Multilingual Learner Success
This project with the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) develops and implements the state's Blueprint for Multilingual Learner (MLL) Success to identify existing strengths and prioritize improvement areas to solidify systemic progress at the state, district, and school level.
Partner Center(s): Region 2 Comprehensive Center
● Strengthening Coherence Around RIDE’s Curriculum Frameworks and Blueprints for Student Success
The Instructional Coherence Model, developed with Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) leadership and other stakeholders, ensures effective teaching and learning practices are implemented in local school systems.
Partner Center(s): Region 2 Comprehensive Center
● Supporting Development of the Rhode Island Curriculum Framework for Social Studies
This project assists the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) in developing a curriculum framework for social studies with newly revised standards while soliciting stakeholder feedback and public input.
Partner Center(s): Region 2 Comprehensive Center
● Supporting Development of Anti-bias Recruitment and Hiring Guidance to Increasing Educator Diversity in Rhode Island
This effort builds human and resource capacity among local and state education agency leaders in Rhode Island by providing coaching and consultation services, contributing to the development of materials and tools, and addressing recruitment and hiring policies to ensure they support educator diversity.
Partner Center(s): Region 2 Comprehensive Center
● Facilitating Strategic Planning for educator Excellence in Rhode Island
This project supports the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) Office of Educator Excellence and Certification Services to develop a plan for reimagining the state’s educator evaluation system.
Partner Center(s): Region 2 Comprehensive Center
● Facilitating a Task Force to Develop Recommendations to Inform Civics Readiness Education K–12 in Rhode Island
This collaboration with the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) facilitates a Civics Task Force which will make recommendations to the state’s Commissioner of Education on specific measures to improve the quality of civics education in Rhode Island.
Partner Center(s): Region 2 Comprehensive Center
South Carolina
Regional Center: Region 6 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Support for Family Engagement in South Carolina
This initiative assists the South Carolina Department of Education in providing family-engagement support to districts and low-performing schools.
Partner Center(s): Region 6 Comprehensive Center
● Aligned Services: Re-imagining the South Carolina Office of School Transformation Supports
This project builds capacity within the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) Office of School Transformation (OST) by improving collaboration across SCDE program offices and state education agency systems to better align their support to districts and schools.
Partner Center(s): Region 6 Comprehensive Center
● SCORE – Support for Consolidating Operations and Resources Efficiently
This effort provides individualized consultative services to assist the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) in improving alignment and coordination of support systems to schools and districts.
Partner Center(s): Region 6 Comprehensive Center
South Dakota
Regional Center: Region 11 Comprehensive CenterTennessee
Regional Center: Region 5 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Recruiting and Maintaining Effective Educators
This project assists the Tennessee Department of Education's Office of Human Capital by refining the Tennessee Educator Acceleration Model (TEAM) to adjust to field implementation for continuous improvement and to increase knowledge of vacancy rates.
Partner Center(s): Region 5 Comprehensive Center
● Supporting Strategic Communications
This initiative with the Tennessee Department of Education builds the capacity of district staff to communicate effectively with new staff during the onboarding process.
Partner Center(s): Region 5 Comprehensive Center
● Framework for Adult Learning: Supporting Improved Delivery and Assessment of PD
This Tennessee Department of Education partnership develops and implements a framework for delivering and assessing learning experiences for staff at all levels statewide.
Partner Center(s): Region 5 Comprehensive Center
Texas
Regional Center: Region 14 Comprehensive CenterU. S. Virgin Islands
Regional Center: Region 3 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Consolidated Grant Application (CGA)
This project assists the Virgin Islands Department of Education (VIDE) review drafts, conduct needs assessments, and submit documents to fund U.S. Virgin Islands’ education with the Consolidated Grant Application (CGA).
Partner Center(s): Region 3 Comprehensive Center
● Collaborative Design Team CDT)
This initiative provides technical assistance to the Virgin Islands Department of Education (VIDE) to facilitate the Collaborative Design Team with its activities and meetings, expand the micro-site, and enhance the existing K–12 curriculum.
Partner Center(s): Region 3 Comprehensive Center
Utah
Regional Center: Region 15 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Building Capacity to Leverage Existing Data Infrastructure to Improve Safe and Healthy Schools Data
This project helps the Utah State Board of Education use existing data infrastructure to help the state’s districts and charter schools collect and report accurate incident data to inform Utah’s safe and healthy schools initiatives.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● State System of Support for Continuous School Improvement
This project assists the Utah State Board of Education as it develops a Center for Continuous School Improvement. The Center provides a tiered system of support for all schools and districts in Utah to collaboratively implement equitable, transparent, and systemic transformations to ensure continuous school improvement.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Developing a State Resource Allocation Review Process
This Resource Allocation Review project helps the Utah State Board of Education develop a process to conduct periodic reviews of resource allocation methods in low-performing schools and their local education agencies (LEAs).
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Supporting the Utah State Board of Education in Educator Evaluation System Design & Implementation
In this project, the Utah State Board of Education strengthens and coordinates its evidence-based leadership development initiatives, including various state rules and guidance, frameworks and rubrics, professional learning opportunities, and communities of practice.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Local Educational Agency Consolidated Plan and Comprehensive Needs Assessment
This project creates an online Comprehensive Needs Assessment and Consolidated Plan for local education agencies (LEAs), designed to reduce burden (time, personnel, fiscal) and duplication of efforts needed to meet state and federal requirements. The goal is increased transparency and collaboration and the development of a plan for undertaking future legislative initiatives regarding continuous improvement for all LEAs.
Partner Center(s): Region 15 Comprehensive Center
● Cross-State American Indian Education Directors’ Community of Practice
This Community of Practice (CoP) helps Indian Education Directors in six states address the academic challenges that face American Indian/Alaska Native peoples, incorporating the rich cultural assets that Indigenous students, families, communities, and nations bring as successful solutions to these issues.
Partner Center(s): Region 13 Comprehensive Center
Vermont
Regional Center: Region 1 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Using GIS Mapping to Build and Strengthen Coherent Systems of Student Support in Vermont
This partnership with the Vermont Education Agency provides training and supports for using and sustaining a geographic information system (GIS) map designed to understand the landscape and improve the equity of mental health services for students.
Partner Center(s): Region 1 Comprehensive Center
● Vermont: Developing Implementation Guidance and Supports for the Early Literacy Blueprint (ARP)
This partnership with Vermont Agency of Education (VT AOE) is developing an early literacy playbook to operationalize the strategies in the Blueprint for Early Literacy Comprehensive System of Services to bridge the gap between policy and local literacy action plans to strengthen the foundational early literacy (preK-3) skills in Vermont.
Partner Center(s): Region 1 Comprehensive Center
Virginia
Regional Center: Region 5 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Transitioning from Compliance to a Continuous Improvement Model of School Improvement
This initiative for the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) transitions them to a continuous improvement model by using effective communication and collaboration, identifying promising practices, and embracing both improvement and implementation science frameworks.
Partner Center(s): Region 5 Comprehensive Center
● Office of Parent Engagement (OPE)
This effort aids the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) with designing and launching a new Office of Parental Engagement to improve communication between VDOE and Virginia parents.
Partner Center(s): Region 5 Comprehensive Center
● HB 938 Education Initiative
This initiative garners and documents stakeholder input on HB 938 to provide the State Board with recommendations that can be used to define the priorities and goals of the bill.
Partner Center(s): Region 5 Comprehensive Center
Washington
Regional Center: Region 16 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Washington Tribal Education Program Capacity Building
This project brings together the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, their Office of Native Education, and Tribal education leaders to strengthen relationships and enhance resources to better serve Native American and Alaska Native students and their families.
Partner Center(s): Region 16 Comprehensive Center
● Building Regional Capacity to Address Educational Inequities and Low Student Performance
This initiative encourages shared stewardship and collaboration across the region to create systemic conditions necessary for strong and healthy schools where students, families, and educators thrive and the voices of students, families and communities are heard.
Partner Center(s): Region 16 Comprehensive Center
West Virginia
Regional Center: Region 5 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Evaluating and Evolving the Educator Talent Management Framework
This framework assists three aspects of the educator talent management framework (recruitment, development, and retention) by focusing on the creation of implementation resources and activities aligned with West Virginia Department of Education’s (WVDE) teacher leadership framework, teacher residency model, and grow your own programs.
Partner Center(s): Region 5 Comprehensive Center
● Building Capacity of WV Educators to Support Students with Adverse Childhood Expert
This project supports student well-being by focusing on cross-agency collaboration, as well as broad-based stakeholder partnerships, to deliver resources to districts, students, and families.
Partner Center(s): Region 5 Comprehensive Center
● Leveraging the Potential of Teacher Residency Programs (TRPs) - Supplement
The Center is using supplemental funds to support local implementation of Teacher Residency Programs (TRPs) to grow, diversify, and retain the educator workforce in West Virginia (and across the Region).
Partner Center(s): Region 5 Comprehensive Center
Wisconsin
Regional Center: Region 10 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Support DPI leadership in strategic planning, initiative alignment, prioritization, and continuous improvement
This project with the Department of Public Instruction identifies existing initiatives; aligns them to priorities; and establishes processes for prioritization, continuous improvement, and educational equity.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● Resources and technical assistance for DPI and LEAs to strengthen the educator workforce
This collaboration strengthens the Department of Public Instruction and local education capacity to use data to identify, select, and implement evidence-based practices which strengthen the educator workforce.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● DPI Family, Youth, and Community support
This initiative develops support structures at local and state education levels for community, parent, and youth engagement through alignment and coherence of the Department of Public Instruction programs and cross-state work in youth engagement and voice.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● Rural School Engagement: Rural Advocacy Organizations
This effort connects with rural education advocacy organizations in Wisconsin and Minnesota to identify topics of cross-state interest for further study and dissemination.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● Circles of Reflection: Early Learning
This partnership with the National Comprehensive Center engages tribal and non-tribal educators, early learning providers, community leaders, and Department of Public Instruction staff on early learning challenges and opportunities for Native American children and families.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● Toolkits to support implementation of Rubric for Racially Equitable Evidence (RREE)
This toolkit supports statewide implementation of the Rubric for Racially Equitable Evidence (RREE) by designing, testing, and disseminating RREE resources with different audiences—youth, educators, researchers, and state education agencies.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● Cross-SEA discussions on effective supports for identified districts and schools
This project supports periodic cross-state discussions between staff at the Department of Public Instruction and the Minnesota Department of Education who share challenges and potential innovations, tools, and processes used by other state education agencies.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● ESSER Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Building
This initiative strengthens the Department of Public Instruction’s capacity to effectively support districts in monitoring and evaluating their Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER)-funded Employee Benefits Information System.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● LEA Technical Assistance Projects in Wisconsin
This effort works closely with district leaders and regional organizations in Wisconsin to identify potential quick turnaround technical assistance projects, usually lasting less than a year.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● Planning Support Middleton-Cross Plains Teaching and Learning
This project provides Middleton Cross Plains Area School District assistance in developing a theory of action for the Teaching and Learning team, logic models for the five strands within the Teaching and Learning team, and evaluation plans for the evidence-based strategies identified in the logic models. This work develops resources (toolkits, webinars, etc.) that can be used by other districts to do similar processes.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● Support for WI Coalition of Community Schools
This initiative distributes a Wisconsin Community Schools Guide, hosts a regional webinar on how to start and support community schools, and forms partnerships as a parent-engagement and equity strategy for the Wisconsin Coalition of Community Schools and participating school districts.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● DPI Trauma Sensitive Schools (TSS) and Comprehensive School Mental Health (CSMH) needs assessments and logic model development
This collaboration is working with the Department of Public Instruction on a needs assessment (implementation analysis) and logic model development for the statewide mental health and trauma-sensitive schools programming.
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
● Effectively Supporting Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) Schools in EBIS Identification and Selection
This project supports consultants from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) for working with Comprehensive Support and Improvement schools (CSI) as they identify and select Effective Behavior and Intervention Supports (EBIS).
Partner Center(s): Region 10 Comprehensive Center
Wyoming
Regional Center: Region 11 Comprehensive CenterProject(s):
● Developing and Implementing a Comprehensive K–5 Reading Framework to Improve Outcomes for Struggling Readers in Wyoming
This comprehensive K–5 reading framework approach is designed to improve outcomes for struggling readers in Wyoming.
Partner Center(s): Region 11 Comprehensive Center
● Signature Project: Responding to Disruption: Stories from the Field
These stories share the experiences of educators and policymakers as they responded to COVID-19 while lifting promising practices, describing how stimulus funds spurred recovery, and identifying learned lessons and innovations.
Partner Center(s): National Comprehensive Center