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
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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
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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
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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
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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
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Appalachia Region Comprehensive Center (ARCC)
Serves the states of Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Dr. Sandra Angius, Director
[email protected]
California Comprehensive Center
Serves the state of California.
Dr. Fred Tempes, Director
[email protected]
Florida and Islands Region Comprehensive Center
Serves the state of Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
Karen Underwood, Director
[email protected]
Great Lakes East Region Comprehensive Center
Serves the states of Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.
Barbara Youngren, Director
[email protected]
Great Lakes West Region Comprehensive Center
Serves the states of Illinois and Wisconsin.
Linda Miller, Director
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Mid-Continent Region Comprehensive Center (MC3)
Serves the states of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
Dr. Belinda Biscoe, Director
[email protected]
New England Region Comprehensive Center (NECC)
Serves the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Dr. Carol Keirstead, Director
[email protected]
New York Comprehensive Center (NYCC)
Serves the state of New York.
Larry Hirsch, Director
[email protected]
North Central Region Comprehensive Center (NCCC)
Serves the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Dr. Audrey Cotherman, Director
[email protected]
Northwest Region Comprehensive Center (NWRCC)
Serves the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.
Ms. Kathleen Peixotto, Director
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Southeast Region Comprehensive Center
Serves the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.
Dr. Marie Kaigler, Director
[email protected]
Texas Comprehensive Center
Serves the state of Texas.
Dr. K. Victoria Dimock, Director
[email protected]
West/Southwest Region Comprehensive Center
Serves the states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.
Dr. Paul Koehler, Director
[email protected]