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REEd: Resourcing Excellence in Education - REEd works closely with the education community by moving research findings into practice and helping education systems improve teaching and learning. With the goal of reducing education inequities, REEd contributes through a steady stream of publications, reports, conference presentations, online tools and resources. REEd provides a variety of services, including technical assistance, consultation, presentation and facilitation of professional development as well as evaluation projects.

WHEELHOUSE Community College Leadership - Wheelhouse focuses its energy on current and future leaders in the California Community Colleges system. That focus is two-fold: First, with institutes at UC Davis that deliver professional and peer learning for sitting and aspiring district chancellors, college presidents and other senior leaders. Wheelhouse also conducts, translates and disseminates timely, relevant and rigorous third-party research to inform policy development for community college leaders

RAD: Reading & Academic Development Center - The RAD Center seeks to understand and support the academic and educational needs of school-age children with learning and developmental difficulties pertaining to reading. The RAD Center team provides assessment and intervention services designed to help children who are experiencing difficulty with word decoding, reading fluency, and/or reading comprehension. Faculty, staff and students at the RAD Center also conduct and disseminate leading-edge, evidence-based research on an array of reading problems.

TJE: Transformative Justice in Education - TJE is a community-university collaboration serving practitioners and researchers committed to disrupting racial inequities in education. The work of TJE includes providing a home for classroom teachers and/or restorative justice practitioners who are seeking ways to create and sustain a restorative culture in their teaching and learning communities, preparing teaching trainers in restorative justice practices and providing technical assistance to universities committed to implementing and sustaining restorative justice practices on campus.

CAP-Ed: Center for Applied Policy in Education - CAP-Ed connects education leaders and practitioners with nonpartisan, research-supported information and expertise from scholars and policymakers. Its services include offering new policy research to inform the implementation of policies and hosting seminars for policymakers and education stakeholders with experts in key education topics, such as school finance, accountability, and curriculum and instruction. Conducting new policy research on key education policy topics such as school finance, accountability, and curriculum and instruction.

CCS: Center for Community & Citizen Science - CCS helps scientists, communities and citizens work together on science to address environmental problems as a part of civic life. CCS collaborates with professional scientists to conduct research-based investigations, engage in monitoring activities, collect data and interpret results. CCS seeks to broaden participation in science across diverse communities by researching how and why people from different backgrounds engage with different forms of citizen science, and what they get out of that experience.

SASP Sacramento Area Science Project - SASP conducts science education research and provides professional development in K-12 science instruction. SASP provides support to teachers, schools and districts for the newly adopted Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) as well as Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for Science and the Technical Subjects. SASP also offers the popular Dinner with a Scientist program, which gives 7th – 12th grade students the opportunity o interact with scientists from many different disciplines over dinner twice a year.

CISI: California Institute for School Improvement - CISI is a membership organization to provide local education leaders with the information on state policy and education research that they need as they perform their day-to-day work in schools. CISI serves to organize the constant flow of information on the critical issues in education in a concise, unbiased, timely and accurate manner. CISI members receive monthly E-Bulletin, regularly published Research Briefs, our comprehensive Fall and Spring Resource Guides.