<p>The Education Commonwealth Project (ECP) works to support assessment of student learning and school progress that is valid, democratic, and equitable. Pushing back against the overreliance on standardized testing, ECP offers free and open-source resources that all schools can use. And thanks to support from the Massachusetts State Legislature, ECP offers additional support for public schools and districts in Massachusetts.</p>
<p>SQM honors the full range of what schools do, using data to support and sustain schools rather than to rate and rank them. Whether it means identifying new indicators for tracking progress, or visualizing data in ways that foster richer conversations, the SQM team is here to support Massachusetts districts as they work to assemble a fuller and more accurate portrait of their schools. </p>
<p>District leaders interested in working with ECP have a number of resources at their disposal. If you’re interested in our Quality Performance Assessment (QPA) work, we can help set you on a path toward authentically assessing what students know and can do. And if you’re interested in our School Quality Measures (SQM) work, we can help you create a framework that reflects what matters in your district, as well as identifying aligned indicators that will track your progress.</p>
<p>ECP can also support districts that want to go even further in this work—supporting central office in analyzing data and crafting improvement strategies. One key resource we can offer is our free and open-source data dashboard that visualizes SQM results in a clear and easy-to-interpret way. </p>
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<p>Whether or not we are engaged with the district, the ECP team can support school-level work around both Quality Performance Assessments and School Quality Measures. This can happen across the whole building, with subject-specific or grade-level teams, or with smaller groups of educators interested in new approaches to assessment. </p>
<p>School leaders and educators can use tools like performance assessments, student and teacher perception surveys, or team-oriented “walkthrough” protocols. Or you can work with the ECP team to design professional learning that responds to the need for fairer and more holistic ways of determining student and school progress.</p>
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<p>ECP is committed to including all stakeholders in addressing the challenges and possibilities of assessing student learning and school quality. ECP works directly with schools and districts, providing an alternative and authentic approach to determining what students know and can do (Quality Performance Assessment), and offering a broader and more democratic way of tracking school progress (School Quality Measures). But ECP also recognizes that family and community members are critical partners in supporting students and schools. Our team is committed to working with families and community members, building their capacity as change agents and including them in decision-making processes. </p>
<p>We can collaborate with you to design formal presentations about assessment, organize support for grassroots activism, and develop plans for including families and community members in change efforts.</p>