Comprehensive Center Network
National Content Centers
Nation-wide, five content centers cover a spectrum of school improvement and technical assistance areas. These content centers are responsible for providing, in each of the content areas below, in-depth knowledge, expertise, and analyses to regional centers and the states served by the regional centers. Content centers disseminate knowledge on scientifically based research on effective practice and research-based products in their area of specialty and provide experts that regional centers can use in delivering technical assistance to states.
National Center on Response to Intervention
The Center’s mission is to provide technical assistance to states and districts and building the capacity of states to assist districts in implementing proven models for RTI/EIS.
Center on Accountability and Assessment
Implements, evaluates, and improves assessment and accountability systems so that states and districts can reach the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) goal of academic proficiency for all students.
Dr. Stanley N. Rabinowitz, Director
srabino@wested.org
Center on Teacher Quality
Provides national resources to which the regional comprehensive centers, states, and other education stakeholders turn for strengthening the quality of teaching - especially in high-poverty, low-performing, and hard-to-staff schools - and for finding guidance in addressing specific needs.
Dr. Sabrina Laine, Director
sabrina.laine@learningpt.org
Center on Instruction
Provides resources and expertise to the regional comprehensive centers in reading, mathematics, science, special education, and English language learners.
Dr. Angela Penfold, Director
apenfold@rmcres.com
Center on Innovation and Improvement
Identifies and encourages successful innovations engendered by parental options, including charter schools, parental choice of schools, magnet schools, schools within a school, and supplemental educational services.
Dr. Sam Redding, Director
sredding@adi.org
Center on High Schools
Serves as the central source of information and expertise on high school improvement for states, districts, and the regional comprehensive centers.
Becky Smerdon, Director
bsmerdon@air.org
Regional Comprehensive Centers
Sixteen regional comprehensive centers provide frontline assistance to states to help them implement NCLB and other related federal school improvement programs.
Alaska Comprehensive Center (ACC)
Serves the state of Alaska.
Jerry Schoenberger, Director
jerrys@serrc.org
Appalachia Region Comprehensive Center (ARCC)
Serves the states of Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Dr. Sandra Angius, Director
sandra.angius@edvantia.org
California Comprehensive Center
Serves the state of California.
Dr. Fred Tempes, Director
ftempes@wested.org
Florida and Islands Region Comprehensive Center
Serves the state of Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
Karen Underwood, Director
mkunderwood@ets.org
Great Lakes East Region Comprehensive Center
Serves the states of Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.
Barbara Youngren, Director
barbara.youngren@learningpt.org
Great Lakes West Region Comprehensive Center
Serves the states of Illinois and Wisconsin.
Linda Miller, Director
linda.miller@learningpt.org
Mid-Atlantic Region Comprehensive Center (MACC)
Serves the states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.
Dr. Charlene Rivera, Director
crivera@ceee.gwu.edu
Mid-Continent Region Comprehensive Center (MC3)
Serves the states of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
Dr. Belinda Biscoe, Director
bpbiscoe@ou.edu
New England Region Comprehensive Center (NECC)
Serves the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Dr. Carol Keirstead, Director
ckeistead@rmcres.com
New York Comprehensive Center (NYCC)
Serves the state of New York.
Larry Hirsch, Director
lhirsch@rmcres.com
North Central Region Comprehensive Center (NCCC)
Serves the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Dr. Audrey Cotherman, Director
acotherman@mcrel.org
Northwest Region Comprehensive Center (NWRCC)
Serves the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.
Ms. Kathleen Peixotto, Director
peixottk@nwrel.org
Pacific Region Comprehensive Center (PC)
Serves the state of Hawaii, and American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
Dr. Hilda Heine, Director
heineh@prel.org
Southeast Region Comprehensive Center
Serves the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.
Dr. Marie Kaigler, Director
mkaigler@sedl.org
Texas Comprehensive Center
Serves the state of Texas.
Dr. K. Victoria Dimock, Director
vdimock@sedl.org
West/Southwest Region Comprehensive Center
Serves the states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.
Dr. Paul Koehler, Director
pkoehle@wested.org