WestEd, a nonpartisan research, development, and service agency, works to promote excellence, achieve equity, and improve learning for children, youth, and adults.
We offer customized services to address enduring challenges in education and human development. We partner with you to provide research, evaluation, professional learning, and technical assistance to inform policies and practices that serve the needs of your communities.
Our staff partner with policymakers, district leaders, school leaders, communities, and others, providing a broad range of tailored services, including research and evaluation, professional learning, technical assistance, and policy guidance. We generate knowledge and apply evidence and expertise to improve policies, systems, and practices.
As a leading national research organization, we provide you with research and evaluation studies that meet the highest levels of rigor and protect the confidentiality of data.
Our studies build evidence and produce insights to inform practices that support positive, equitable, systemwide outcomes. We use interdisciplinary methods, draw on culturally responsive practices, and take a collaborative approach that reflects the needs of our clients and the communities they serve.
We lead premier Research Practice Partnerships with educators—from state and local decision-makers to district and school practitioners—to provide research and analytic support.
WestEd connects research and practice across many domains and stages of our work, from building evidence to offering services that apply our research and evaluating the effectiveness of programs and interventions.
Learn more about our approach and see examples of our impact online at https://www.wested.org/