Where We Are

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New England Comprehensive Assistance Center (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) Co-Directors: Wende Allen — wallen@edc.org Maria-Paz Avery — mavery@edc.org Address: Education Development Center, Inc. 55 Chapel Street Newton, Massachusetts 02458 Telephone: 800-332-0226 Fax: 617-969-7578 Partner: Learning Innovations

New York Technical Assistance Center (New York State) Executive Director: Dr. LaMar P. Miller — lamar.miller@nyu.edu Address: New York University 82 Washington Square East, Suite 72 New York, New York 10003 Telephone: 800-469-8224 Fax: 212-995-4199 Partners: ESCORT of the State University of New York at Oneonta Hunter College of the City University of New York ORBIS Associates of Washington, DC RMC Research Corporation of Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Region III Comprehensive Center (Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania) Director: Dr. Charlene Rivera — crivera@ceee.gwu.edu Address: Center for Equity and Excellence in Education The George Washington University 1730 North Lynn Street, Suite 401 Arlington, Virginia 22209 Telephone: 703-528-3588 Fax: 703-528-5973 Partners: ESCORT, SUNY Oneonta Research for Better Schools RMC Research Corporation

Region IV Comprehensive Center (Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia) Director: Dr. Sandra Angius — angiuss@ael.org Address: AEL - Comprehensive Center P.O. Box 1348 Charleston, WV 25325-1348 Telephone: 800-624-9120 Fax: 304-347-0409 Partners: ESCORT at the State University of New York at Oneonta SERVE Regional Education Laboratory

Southeast Comprehensive Assistance Center (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi) Director: Dr. Marie Kaigler— mkaigler@sedl.org Address: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory 3330 North Causeway Boulevard, Suite 430 Metairie, LA 70002-3573 Telephone: 800-644-8671 or 504-838-6861 Fax: 504-831-5242 Partners: American Indian Research and Development, Inc.

Comprehensive Center - Region VI (Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin) Director: Dr. Audrey Cotherman — amcotherman@facstaff.wisc.edu Address: Wisconsin Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin - Madison 1025 West Johnson Street Madison, WI 53706 Telephone: 888-862-7763 or 608-263-4220 Fax: 608-263-3733 General Email: ccvi@mail.wcer.wisc.edu Partners: Eastern Michigan University Hamline University Regional Education Connections: Iowa Department of Education Michigan Department of Education Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning North Dakota State Government South Dakota Department of Education of Education and Cultural Affairs Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

Region VII Comprehensive Center (Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma) Executive Director: Dr. John E. Steffens Director: Dr. Belinda Biscoe — bpbiscoe@ou.edu or bbiscoe123@aol.com Address: University of Oklahoma 555 East Constitution Street Norman, OK 73072-7820 Telephone: 800-228-1766 or 405-325-1729 Fax: 405-325-1824 General Email: regionvii@ou.edu Partners: PRC, Inc./Education and Evaluation Services Texas A&M University-Kingsville Phi Delta Kappa International Inter-Tribal Associates, Inc.

STAR Center (Texas) Executive Director: Dr. Maria Robledo Montecel Site Director: Dr. Albert Cortez Address: Intercultural Development Research Association 5835 Callaghan Road, Suite 350 San Antonio, TX 78228-1190 Telephone: 888-394-7827 or 210-444-1710 Fax: 210-444-1714 Partners: Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin RMC Research Corporation

Southwest Comprehensive Regional Assistance Center (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah) Director: Dr. Paul Martinez— pmartinez@cesdp.nmhu.edu Address: New Mexico Highlands University 202 Central S.E., Suite 300 Albuquerque, NM 87102 Telephone: 800-247-4269 or 505-243-4442 Fax: 505-243-4456 Partners: Midcontinent Regional Educational Laboratory WestEd Indigenous Institute for Educational Excellence

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory's Comprehensive Center (Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming) Chief Executive Officer: Dr. Carol F. Thomas — thomasc@nwrel.org Director: Kit Peixotto — peixottk@nwrel.org Address: Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory 101 Southwest Main Street, Suite 500 Portland, OR 97204 Telephone: 800-547-6339 or 503-275-0137 Fax: 503-275-9625 Partners: Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Salish Kootenai College

Comprehensive Assistance Center WestEd (Northern California: All counties except those served by Region XII Comprehensive Center) Director: Dr. Fred Tempes — ftempes@wested.org Address: WestEd - Oakland Office 300 Lakeside Drive, 18th Floor Oakland, CA 94612-3534 Telephone: 800-64-LEARN or 510-302-4263 Fax: 510-302-4242 Partners: Curriculum and Instruction Steering Committee of the California Superintendents Educational Services Association

Southern California Comprehensive Assistance Center (Southern California: Imperial, Inyo, Los Angeles, Mono, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego counties) Director: Dr. Henry Mothner — mothner_henry@lacoe.edu Address: Los Angeles County Office of Education 9300 Imperial Highway Downey, CA 90242-2890 Telephone: 562-922-6343 Fax: 562-940-1798 Partners: Imperial County Office of Education Inyo County Office of Education Los Angeles County Office of Education Office of the Mono County Superintendent of Schools Orange County Department of Education Riverside County Office of Education San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools San Diego County Office of Education

Alaska Comprehensive Regional Assistance Center (Alaska) Director: Jerry Schoenberger — jerrys@serrc.org Address: South East Regional Resource Center 210 Ferry Way, Suite 200 Juneau, AK 99801 Telephone: 888-43-AKRAC or 907-586-6806 Fax: 907-463-3811 Partners: Alaska State Department of Education and Early Development Northwest Regional Education Laboratory

Region XIV Comprehensive Center at ETS (Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands) Director: Karen Underwood— mkunderwood@ets.org Address: Region XIV Comprehensive Center at ETS 1000 North Ashley Drive, Suite 312 Tampa, FL 33602 Telephone: 800-756-9003 or 813-275-0122 Fax: 813-228-0632 General Email: tfo@ets.org Partners: Center for Applied Linguistics, Sunbelt Office David Anchin Center at University of South Florida ESCORT at the State University of New York at Oneonta Northrop Gumman

Pacific Center [American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae,Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Hawaii, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Republic of Palau] Director: Paul Dumas— dumasp@prel.org Address: Pacific Resources for Education and Learning 900 Fort Street Mall Suite 1300 Honolulu, HI 96813 Telephone: 808-441-1305 or 808-441-1300 Fax: 808-441-1385 Partners: University of Guam-Multicultural Education Resource Center (MERC) WestEd, San Francisco, CA RMC Research Corporation, Denver, CO