BethAnn Berliner

About

BethAnn Berliner leads researcher-practitioner partnerships for the Regional Educational Laboratory West (REL West) to strengthen and expand collaborative approaches to improve student academic and health outcomes. This includes co-leading a REL West’ partnership with Washoe County School District to reduce chronic absence and a partnership with the Los Angeles County Office of Education to improve outcomes for foster youth. Previously, Berliner led a REL West partnership of rural districts in California’s Central Valley that helped schools and school-based health centers use data and evidence to address school readiness, chronic absence, student health, and behavioral interventions. She uses her expertise in cross-sector collaboration, dropout prevention, and school culture and climate to help build capacity of schools and community-based organizations to improve student outcomes. She brings extensive experience working with highly-mobile students, students in foster care, students with disabilities, and other vulnerable populations. She received an MA in social history from the University of Colorado and an MPA in public policy from San Francisco State University.
BethAnn Berliner: bberlin@wested.org

Associated IES Content

report Descriptive Study

Students' Use of School-Based Telemedicine Services and Rates of Returning to Class After These Services in a Small Elementary School District

Even before COVID-19, school districts wanted to understand if school-based telemedicine services met student health needs during the school day and helped keep students in school all day, every day. Specifically, districts were interested in knowing if telemedicine enabled students with a school-day health issue to return to class instead of being sent home, preventing the loss of instruction. This study examined students' use of school-based telemedicine in all five of the schools in urban ...

Feb 01, 2021

report Descriptive Study

Characteristics and education outcomes of Utah high school dropouts who re-enrolled

Numerous studies over the past two decades have examined the prevalence, causes, predictors, and prevention of high school dropout, but comparatively little is known about students who drop out and later re-enroll. This study contributes to an emerging body of research on re-enrollees that challenges the perception that when students drop out, they leave school for good. This study used data from the Utah State Office of Education to follow a cohort of 41,496 students who were expected to gra...

Nov 01, 2016

report Descriptive Study

School mobility, dropout, and graduation rates across student disability categories in Utah

This report describes the characteristics of students with disabilities in Utah public schools, and presents the single-year mobility and dropout rates for students in grades 6-12, as well as the four-year cohort dropout and graduation rates, for students who started grade 9 for the first time in 2007/08 and constituted the 2011 cohort. Results are reported for students with disabilities as a group and then further disaggregated by each of the disability categories. Using statewide administra...

Nov 01, 2014

resource Other Resource

Speak Out, Listen Up! Tools for Using Student Perspectives and Local Data for School Improvement

Listening closely to what students say about their school experiences can be beneficial to educators for understanding and addressing school-related topics and problems and rethinking policies and practices. The purpose of this toolkit is to provide educators with a purposeful and systematic way to elicit and listen to student voice to inform school improvement efforts. School improvement is complex work that relies on multiple sources of information to frame challenges and address and monito...

Jul 01, 2014