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Capacity Building for Individuals, Organizations, and Systems
Supporting professional development and fostering leadership to create positive change
In the United States, EDC’s teacher professional development programs help educators improve their craft.
EDC develops practitioner-informed professional development and resources that build professional and organizational capacities. We engage educators, health providers, and community agency staff in communities of practice that reflect current findings on effective strategies to support adult learning and systems improvements.
We develop and deliver training and technical assistance to frontline staff in classrooms, clinics, and communities that support their use of evidence-based practices to enhance services. We also build policymakers’ capacity to collect, analyze, and use data to guide decision-making.
Learn about EDC’s work to strengthen early childhood interventions with Continuous Quality Improvement.
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Projects
Resources
Here are a few of our resources on capacity building for individuals, organizations, and systems. To see more, visit our Resources section.
Resource libraries
This resource library contains reports, evaluations, and toolkits produced by Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) partners and principal investigators with DR K–12 grant
Reports
This study uses data from an urban public school district to address two topics: whether the percentage of teachers with a below proficient summative performance rating varies by teacher characteri
Reports
This report supports districts in analyzing their student-level disciplinary data to answer important questions about the use of disciplinary actions, including whether these actions are disproport
Reports
This collection of essays shares insights and strategies from EDC’s work to support teachers’ professional learning, as well as links to an array of EDC’s resources for teachers.
Toolkits
This guide helps school districts choose the computer science (CS) curricula that best suit their communities’ needs.
Reports
This report spotlights Eastern Niagara Hospital is using the Elder Mistreatment Emergency Department Toolkit to identify and address elder mistreatment.
Fact sheets
This fact sheet describes EDC’s Supporting Readiness through Vital Civic Empowerment (SRVCE) program.
Websites
Zoom In is a free, research-based online tool that helps students learn U.S. history while strengthening their literacy skills.
Reports
This report looks at the sustained effect of EDC’s Zanzibar RISE and ZTUR programs for children and teachers, including institutionalization and expansion by the government of Zanzibar and a sustained learning advantage for children who participated in the programs.
Toolkits
This toolkit is designed to help school- and district-based practitioners engage in a continuous improvement effort.