Funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Supportive Schools (OSSS), the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE) is comprised of experts with direct experience in addressing the challenges of improving school climate and the conditions for learning at the school, district, State, and federal levels.
The Center is operated by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in collaboration with the Center for School Mental Health; Child Trends; the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL); EMT Associates, Inc. (EMT); Futures Without Violence; Macrosys; Sanametrix; and Vision Training Associates, Inc. (VTA).
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Healthy Students
- Paul Kesner, Director, OSSS
- Rita Foy Moss, Group Leader, OSSS
- Earl Myers, Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) for NCSSLE and Program Officer for the Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program
- Nicole White, Program Officer for the Project Prevent Grant Program
- Shauna Knox and Elyse Robertson, Grant Managers for the Trauma Recovery Demonstration Grant Program
Center Leadership
- David Osher, Principal Investigator (AIR), dosher@air.org
- Sandy Williamson, Director (AIR), swilliamson@air.org
- Greta Colombi, Deputy Director (AIR), gcolombi@air.org
- Pia Peltola, Lead on Survey/Data (AIR), ppeltola@air.org
- Jeanne Poduska, Lead on TA Support (AIR), jpoduska@air.org
- Kristen Darling, Lead on Product Development and Dissemination (Child Trends), kdarling@childtrends.org
- Tim Duffey, Lead on Training (Vision Training Associates, Inc.), tim.duffey1@gmail.com
- Kellie Anderson, Lead on Higher Education (AIR), kanderson@air.org