The SQM approach includes a wide range of indicators aligned with the domains of school quality that Americans value and that research supports. By assessing the many things that schools do, the SQM system seeks to honor and sustain the full mission of public schools.
+SQM includes a wide range of indicators aligned with the domains of school quality that are valued by the public and supported by the educational research community. The SQM system seeks to honor and sustain the full mission of public schools.
SQM includes 34 indicators of school quality, seeking to paint a more accurate and valid picture of school performance. By using multiple measures, SQM moves beyond the narrow and overly simplistic notion of “good” and “bad” schools that shapes public opinion and public policy.
- - Read more about SQM's Free-and-Open SQM Data Dashboard here + + Explore the SQM Data Dashboard here
- + See our Measures Menu Here
- + "> Read the Research on SQM
- + "> Speak with a Member of the SQM Team diff --git a/app/views/team/index.html.erb b/app/views/team/index.html.erb index 1ed83f1..72d9326 100644 --- a/app/views/team/index.html.erb +++ b/app/views/team/index.html.erb @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
Peter Piazza is the Director of the School Quality Measures project at the Education Commonwealth Project. He formerly led school quality measure work at the Massachusetts’ Consortium for Innovative Educational Assessment, a coalition of public K-12 districts piloting a non-test-based form of school quality measurement. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Penn State’s Center for Education and Civil Rights, and he writes about race and school integration at the <%= link_to "School Diversity Notebook", "https://sdnotebook.com/" %> blog, an affiliate of the National Coalition on School Diversity. Peter is also an adjunct instructor in the Leadership in Schooling Ed.D. program at the University of Massachusetts - Lowell. He earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College in 2015. He lives in Malden, MA, where his daughter is a student in the public schools.
<%= mail_to "peter@edcommonwealth.org", "Contact Peter" %> diff --git a/app/views/work_with_ecp/index.html.erb b/app/views/work_with_ecp/index.html.erb index f9b66b9..14aefce 100644 --- a/app/views/work_with_ecp/index.html.erb +++ b/app/views/work_with_ecp/index.html.erb @@ -1,40 +1,26 @@ -District leaders can adopt the ECP data dashboard and use it to inform district improvement efforts. The district would administer student and teacher perception surveys, and the ECP team would collect all of the other data required for the dashboard analysis. ECP will also assist in the analysis of the data and its implications for improvement strategies.
-Districts may choose to build their own data dashboard using any components they want from the ECP dashboard, as well as any other components they identify as important to their own school communities. The ECP team will facilitate this customization process.
-For districts interested in joining the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment, ECP will build their capacity to make this possible.
+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.
+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.
If a school or district leader wants to launch the creation of performance assessments across an academic department, a grade level, or a school, ECP will provide the guidance and resources to do this successfully.
-School leaders can administer ECP’s student or educator perception surveys as standalone data collection instruments. These surveys have been rigorously field-tested, and the ECP team will offer support in survey data analysis.
-The ECP team can assist educational leaders in developing team-oriented “walkthroughs” as measures of school performance, and support the analysis of the data collected.
+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.
+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.
Individual teachers who want to use high quality performance assessments for their students can access any of the numerous performance assessments that have already been developed and validated. If they want to design their own, the ECP team will provide guidance and coaching.
-ECP is available to work with educators who are interested in developing their own protocols for data use in professional learning communities or as part of other school improvement efforts.
-If families and community members want to learn more about assessment and accountability, ECP will give presentations that can be easily understood by people who do not work in the field of education.
+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.
+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.