ABOUT CALE

Building upon the success of WestEd’s Measure to Learn & Improve initiative, California Analysis for Learning and Engagement (CALE) is a WestEd, multi-year, critical needs sensing, research-to-policy initiative, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

CALE will serve as a critical knowledge hub for timely research, analysis, and insights into pressing California policy priorities—particularly curriculum and instructional systems, teacher preparation, and post-secondary pathways—in order to advance strategic policymaking capacity.

CALE Survey Data Sources

We report on findings from teachers in spring 2019 through the American Instructional Resources Survey (AIRS), administered by the RAND Corporation. This survey focused on materials used and supported in K–12 English language arts (ELA), mathematics, and science classrooms across the United States, with materials defined as textbooks, lesson plans and units, and other instructional materials provided by a school or district. The survey included items about subject-matter materials in general, along with items about the cultural relevance and linguistic appropriateness of the materials, digital materials, and teachers’ modification of materials for EL students.