Jason Greenberg Motamedi
Managing Researcher
Jason is a senior researcher in Education Northwest’s Center for Research, Evaluation, and Analysis. His research supports educators in the Pacific Northwest and around the country in the areas of English learner student instruction and related issues such as teacher development for bilingual and dual-language instruction. Jason also led REL Northwest’s researcher-practitioner partnership with the Washington State Professional Educators Standards Board (PESB), providing technical assistance and conducting rigorous research to support the PESB, higher education and other stakeholders to design and evaluate alternative route and “grow your own” teacher programs to increase the number of bilingual teachers and teachers of color in Washington.
Education
- Ph.D., Anthropology of Education, Temple University
- M.A., Cultural Anthropology, Temple University
Blog Posts
What Works in Dual Language Education?
Educators, schools, districts, and researchers all have a role to play in building our knowledge about effective dual language programs.
How Teachers of Color Can Make a Difference in the Classroom and Beyond
Hiring more teachers of color benefits all students academically and builds the school community—and it's the right thing to do.
Building Bilingual Pride Through Credits for Proficiency
English learners entering high school have to learn both English and grade-level content to begin accumulating credits to graduate.
A Strategy for Predicting How Long It Takes for ELL Students to Reclassify
Our researchers write about how they used a methodology developed by medical researchers to create a useful tool for determining how long it will take students to pass a language proficiency test and exit English learner services.
Case Briefs & Publications
Supporting Multilingual Learners and Supplemental Intervention Services
North Thurston School District partnered with us to evaluate two of its programs—one for multilingual learners and the other for students receiving supplemental intervention services.
Pathways to Teaching: Teacher Diversity, Testing, Certification, and Employment in Washington State
To support diversity in the workforce, we looked at where candidates tend to leave the six steps of the Washington state educator career pathway.
Limited Certificated Teachers in Washington: Barriers to Becoming Fully Certificated and Needed Supports
How can states like Washington overcome teacher shortages? We looked at the data on what teachers need to become fully certificated.
Data-Driven Strategies for Teacher Shortages
Through a research partnership, we helped Washington state address its teacher shortage and increase teacher diversity.
Preparing Educators to Teach Multilingual Learners
An increasing number of U.S. students are multilingual learners, but teachers prepared to serve these students are almost always in short supply. A five-year partnership trains teachers to meet multilingual students' needs.
Dual Language and English Language Development
Beaverton School District has Oregon’s third largest population of multilingual students, including English learners, who bring valuable cultural, linguistic, and individual strengths, assets, and diversity to the classroom.
