About this Web Site

Using This Website

The Wing Institute website is designed to provide education policy makers (federal, state, and local), professional development providers (pre-service and in-service), school personnel (principals, teachers, and support), and community stakeholders (parents and community at large) with useful information for making empirically based choices needed to build quality education services.

For the convenience and benefit of visitors, the website is designed to access information through multiple entry points. Begin navigating the site by exploring the top navigation bar: Evidence-Based Education. This section contains information on the foundation features of an empirical model of education. These features include measuring the impact of services, issues inherent in taking practices from research to practice, the need for standards of proof, how to understand and interpret research, and why science is essential.

Education Drivers

Eight drivers encapsulate essential practices, procedures, resources, and management strategies associated with high-impact skill acquisition, student achievement, and success in school. The drivers can be explored using intuitive graphics leading to a detailed review of each topic. Clicking on a driver brings up an abstract, a comprehensive overview, the Wing Institute resources, access to external research, and information on organizations that specialize in the topic.

Roadmap for Success

The roadmap is a systematic method for creating a continuous improvement process for making decisions, implementing practices, and monitoring the effects of education interventions. Clicking on “DECIDE,” “IMPLEMENT,” or “MONITOR” in the Roadmap overview graphic or in the drop-down menu guides the visitor to a detailed examination of the components of the roadmap.

System Dashboard

This section provides a snapshot of what the American education is doing and how it is doing. The dashboard analyzes, organizes, and synthesizes the enormous, complex, nuanced, and rapidly growing database of research, school improvement initiatives, policies, student performance, and systems performance.

News The news section connects users to the latest news and activities in the field of education. It provides access to the Wing Institute’s most recent posts as well as entry into archived news reports.

FAQ

This section contains a concise list of the most commonly asked questions with answers to help visitors use the site.

Research

This section makes available all the research, by topic, presented on this website. It is meant to provide visitors with extensive information about evidence-based education used to support conclusions found on the site. The topics are organized around the eight education drivers.

About Us

This section offers users access to information about the Wing Institute, Wing Institute presentations, Wing Institute publications, student research funded by grants from the Institute, and summaries of the Wing Institute Summits (conferences sponsored by the Wing Institute).