Education

Early Education and Care

韦斯特在早期教育和护理方面的研究和技术援助支持涵盖了广泛的主题, including cognitive, social-emotional, physical, and language development, as well as supportive instruction, assessment, policy, and professional development for early education and care staff, educators, and administrators. Throughout this work, 韦斯特的工作人员探索如何创造包容和多样化的教育环境，以支持所有幼儿的学习和发展, including those from diverse cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, as well as those with disabilities or special needs. Through our work in early education and care, 韦斯特的目的是促进我们对幼儿如何学习和发展的理解, and how to create high-quality, inclusive, 以及有效的早期教育和护理项目，以促进幼儿及其家庭的福祉.

Educational Assessment

How does student educational performance change over time? 与学生教育表现差异相关的经验和机会是什么? How does student educational performance vary across the states? How does the U.S. compare in terms of students’ educational performance internationally? 揭示这类问题的答案的关键工具是教育评估研究. 教育评估研究的结果有助于为政策制定者提供信息，并指导儿童教育的改进, students, and adults worldwide. 趣赢平台 is at the forefront of these efforts, 开展大规模的国内和趣赢平台评估研究，跟踪这些问题和重要趋势, with the aim to support student learning both within the U.S. and across the globe.

Educator Effectiveness

获得有效的教育是学生在课堂内外成功的关键. 趣赢平台与教育工作者和组织合作，评估复杂性并提供策略, resources, 以及在组织和个人层面取得成功的循证实践. 我们与联邦和地方机构合作，支持从准备到保留教师和领导者的各个领域, with a focus on diversifying, supporting, and retaining a highly effective and diverse educator workforce. Together with our partners, we build capacity in a variety of areas that support educators and, ultimately, lead to student success.

Learning Acceleration

How should Accelerated Learning be implemented? How are educators best supported during implementation? 对于有不同需求的学生，是否有不同的方法来实施加速学习? 在加速进程中，家庭和其他利益相关者应该如何参与? 韦斯特的技术援助和教育政策团队对能够支持各州的循证战略有着深刻的理解, districts, and schools to accelerate learning through integrated and targeted supports, instructional approaches, tutoring, and high-quality out-of-school time.

Special Education

趣赢平台通过涉及《趣赢平台》(IDEA)几乎所有方面的活动，来处理残疾儿童不断变化的学习和行为需求。. 趣赢平台开展研究项目，评估旨在改善残疾儿童成果的倡议和计划，并编写有关IDEA实施的技术报告. 我们的国家认可的技术援助中心为实现更大的公平而建立能力，并向各州提供提高其IDEA数据质量所需的服务和资源. Through these endeavors and many others, 韦斯特努力确保为每一位学习者提供最有效的教育.

STEM

Creating successful STEM learners and broadening participation in science, technology, engineering, 和数学(STEM)被广泛认为是我们教育体系的关键目标，对保持我们的全球竞争力至关重要. 趣赢平台 works with a broad range of clients—federal agencies, foundations, state and local governments—to support and strengthen the STEM enterprise. Our work addresses resource equity, student learning, educator effectiveness, faculty development, and institutional capacity building. Our research, evaluation, 技术援助审查扩大参与的项目和战略，并为知识传播和采用最佳做法提供工具和技术援助.