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Connected Educator Month 2015: Global Connections Transform Professional Learning

01 Oct 2015

Connected Educator Month (CEM) is an annual, October-long collection of events and resources to connect educators and education stakeholders with professional learning experiences worldwide. This year, AIR is leading three CEM themes: Social and Emotional Learning in School Settings, Building Quality Beyond the Bell, and Multi-tiered Systems of Support. AIR ...
Report: Child Care Severely Lacking in Northeast Michigan

13 Jan 2022

The Alpena News
Special Education Experts from the American Institutes for Research to Present at Council for Exceptional Children’s Virtual Convention

13 Jan 2022

AIR will lead and participate in several presentations at the 2022 Council for Exceptional Children’s Convention & Expo, one of the nation’s largest gatherings of special education researchers, policymakers and practitioners. AIR’s presentations will cover a wide array of topics including investigating interventions for students with emotional disturbance; trends in ...
Native Heritage Event: The World We See and the World We Know

30 Nov 2015

Join the American Institutes for Research for a webinar discussion on cultural competency through the lens of the Native worldview. Presenters will share perspectives of Native life experiences in the United States—past, present, and future.
American Institutes for Research to Lead Federal Program to Help States Generate and Use Evidence to Improve Education

13 Jan 2022

AIR has been selected to lead a federally funded program that will help states, school districts and communities in the Midwest conduct research on educational programs and policies and use evidence to build equity in education and improve outcomes. AIR has been awarded a five-year contract to lead Regional Educational ...
Do Sectoral Training Programs Work? What the Evidence on Project Quest and Year Up Really Shows

12 Jan 2022

Brookings Institution
Event Highlights - (How to Get Away with) Murder, Media, Insight and Impact: An Evocative Dialogue on PrEP

06 Dec 2015

PrEP is paving a path across the nation and globally. HIV, PrEP, and same-gender relationships are being showcased in the mainstream media, online and offline. How can we seize this moment and apply novel strategies to increase PrEP awareness, access, and use? Powering the PrEPosition: (How to Get Away with) ...
Lessons Learned in Workforce Innovation: How Ten Governors are Redesigning Workforce Systems for Better Employment Outcomes

12 Jan 2022

National Governors Association
How Mentoring Supports Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at AIR

18 Jan 2022

Mentoring is an important part of AIR’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, both within and beyond our institution. In this Q&A, AIR’s Karen Francis, vice president and chief diversity, equity, inclusion officer, and Kimberly DuMont, vice president and managing director of the AIR Equity Initiative, discuss our mentoring programs ...
Webinar: Attaining Core Content for ELLs in Literature - Addressing Background Knowledge

04 Feb 2016

In this first of a series of three one-hour webinars, the Center for English Language Learners at AIR presents its system for supporting ELLs. Each webinar focuses on a different scaffolding topic—background knowledge, vocabulary, and close reading—using English language arts as the target content area. The presentations include research-based pedagogical ...