Under the third phase of our Measurement, Assessment, and Accountability Action Accelerator, advocates came together to collectively build and share a repository of accessible information regarding measurement, assessment, and accountability co-created with and for students, families, caregivers and educators. Our charge was to:
Support organizations to gather existing MAA materials, create resources that fill existing gaps, and share these resources with direct stakeholders;
Help organizations meet their MAA goals through this project;
Foster a collaborative process that brings together all organizations to build and share this repository of information to direct stakeholders.
Learning Community
Migration Policy Institute
nationwide
The Migration Policy Institute created new and edited existing materials centering the importance and civil rights implications around English Learner assessments and made this information accessible to caregivers while extrapolating relevant messaging for the policy audience.
Council for a better louisana
louisiana
Through extensive research and documentation of the early history of Louisiana’s school accountability system, the Council for a Better Louisiana created a case study of the Louisiana accountability system to provide a much-needed resource for current and future policymakers. CABL also worked with the Committee of 100 (C100), and the Public Affairs Research Council (PAR) to create RESET, a targeted, nonpartisan effort focused on four state policy issues: education, state finance, criminal justice, and transportation infrastructure.
Colorado Education Initiative
colorado
The Colorado Education Initiative developed Future Ready Families, a website designed to provide Colorado parents with proven tools, resources, and strategies—in English and Spanish—to navigate their children’s education and development including assessment and accountability.
Ready Washington
washington
Ready Washington conducted an informal survey of five districts to learn how they communicate with families and held four discussion groups with families (two in Spanish, two in English) to hear from them how they would like to receive the information they need from schools and districts. ReadyWA used the learnings from this outreach to update an existing fact sheet for families about assessments (which they created in MAA I) and made a toolkit for districts to use in their outreach to families about upcoming assessments.
Kentucky Student Voice Team
kentucky
The Kentucky Student Voice Team devised and facilitated student-led roundtables with students from diverse populations and geographies centered around the culture of assessments from elementary to pre-college years and used this information to create discrete assessment discussion guides for students, parents, and school and teacher leaders.
Tennessee score
Tennessee
Tennessee SCORE is conducting a study incorporating school funding into the accountability system. They are investigating the intersection around per- pupil expenditures within the current landscape of COVID-19 around what is being publicly reported.
The Black and Brown Coalition for Educational Equity and Excellence
Montgomery county, md
Education forward arizona
arizona
Granite State Organizing Project: Young organizers united
Manchester, NH
