Important Update

Hello, thank you for visiting our website. We are excited to announce that we are becoming the newly formed Southwest Comprehensive Center (Region 9). In addition to serving Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, we will also be serving Oklahoma and New Mexico. The current content of this website reflects resources from the 2019-2024 Region 14 Comprehensive Center, managed by Westat under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The new 2024-2029 Region 14 Comprehensive Center serves the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE).

Stay tuned for a Southwestern makeover as we transition to the Southwest Comprehensive Center (Region 9).

Our Areas of Work: Educator Effectiveness

Our Educator Effectiveness work supports education stakeholders to design and implement equity-focused initiatives to improve equitable access to effective educators.

We work with clients to facilitate the data-driven alignment of programs and initiatives with components of a coherent talent development system, building in supports for the long-term success of programmatic shifts by providing strategic communication expertise regarding ways to align messaging around various initiatives.

We support our clients through the development of evidence-based resources aimed at addressing racial, socioeconomic, and geographic inequities, as well as through the development of professional learning around identifying and analyzing data using innovative data visualization techniques.

Ensure human capital management alignment
Bring an equity focus to educator initiatives
Share culturally responsive best practices

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“Great initiatives sometimes fail or don’t get the leverage they deserve when communication is not effective. Working with the Region 14 Comprehensive Center as thought partners on how to communicate about teacher leaders to our stakeholders has been a game changer.”

Sandra Hurst Director of the Office of Educator Effectiveness at the Arkansas Department of Education