National Forum on the Future of Assessment & Accountability

 

Forum Objectives

Attendees will:

  • Learn about and engage with ideas, innovations and resources developed by 90+ organizations leading the way on the future of assessment and accountability
  • Deepen connections and build bridges across disciplines and sectors
  • Identify areas of alignment and tension between perspectives and ideas
  • Reflect on both the technical and adaptive opportunities and challenges with assessment and accountability reform to identify paths for the field moving forward

Agenda Overview

Day 1: Wednesday 2/19, 11:30am – 5:30pm

  • Kick-off & Opening Lunch
  • Vision Vignettes: Design Principles for the Future of Assessment & Accountability
  • Sensemaking Session #1

Day 2: Thursday 2/20, 7:30am – 5:30pm

  • Dialogue Group Breakfast & Sensemaking Session #2
  • Keynote: District Leaders Fireside Chat
  • Networking Coffee Break
  • Concurrent Sessions
  • Lunch Break
  • Sensemaking Session #3
  • Concurrent Sessions
  • Day 2 Closeout & Gallery Walk

Day 3: Friday 2/21, 7:30am – 12pm

  • Networking Breakfast
  • Sensemaking Session #4
  • Learning & Application Labs
  • Full Group Sensemaking and Closing Keynote
  • Grab & Go Lunch

Concurrent Sessions

Participants will engage in dialogue while explore a range of design principles for future assessment and accountability policy, learn from examples of state and district innovations across the country and engage in facilitated dialogue on key issues related to school quality and improvement, student success and enabling future-ready systems.

Vision Vignettes: Design Principles for the Future

  • Civil Rights Principles for the Future of Assessment and Accountability
    Amalia Chamorro and Jenny Muñiz, UnidosUS; Adenike Huggins, National Urban League; National Parents Union and Civil Rights Steering Committee
  • The Future of Accountability Will Include Carrots – But We Can’t Back Away from the Sticks
    Karega Rausch, National Association of Charter School Authorizers, and Chad Aldis, Ohio Policy, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
  • Guiding Principles for the Future of Assessments & Accountability Systems
    Amanda Aragon, NewMexicoKidsCAN; Jenn Bell-Ellwanger, Data Quality Campaign; Anne Wicks, George W. Bush Institute
  • Ours to Solve, Once – and for All.  A new model for the US K-12 education system.
    Sally Bachofer, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Frances Messano, New Schools Venture Fund
  • Searching for the Perfect Score: Assessment and Accountability Innovation with Bumpers
    Lillian Pace, KnowledgeWorks; James Lane, PDK International and former Acting Assistant Secretary, OESE, USED

Future-Ready Systems

  • Defining and Measuring Success in the 21st Century: A Collaborative Approach Across Systems
    Maria D’brot, FocalPoint; Dr. Brook Meiller, Building Capacity EDU; Michelle Seybolt, Epic Charter Schools; Dr. Lesa Rohrer, Mustang Public Schools; Dr. Juan D’Brot, Center for Assessment
  • The Future of Assessment: A Roundtable with Carnegie + ETS
    Laura Slover, Skills for the Future/ETS; Sara Knueve, Wisconsin Dept of Public Instruction; Scott Bess, Indiana Charter Innovation Center; David Sherer, Carnegie Foundation
  • Innovative Approaches to System and Culture Measurement: A Better Way Forward to Triangulate Our Understanding of School Quality & Student Postsecondary Success
    Andrew Schmitz, Sam Koenig and Rachel Martin, One Goal
  • Measurement for Mobility: Prioritizing Long-Term Outcomes in K-12 Accountability
    Michael Deuser, Education Strategy Group; Chris Janzer, Michigan Department of Education Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability; Ajit Gopalakrishnan, Connecticut State Department of Education
  • Measuring and Defining School Quality More Equitably and Accurately
    Talia Gerstle, MIT Blueprint Labs; Jai Griem, New York City Public Schools; Bettina Hammer, MIT Blueprint Labs
  • Promising New Indicators for State Accountability Systems
    Michael Petrilli, Thomas B. Fordham Institute; Seth Gershenson, American University in the Department of Public Administration and Policy
  • State Perspective on Measuring Student Readiness
    Ben Erwin, Education Commission of the States; A representative from the Utah State Board of Education and the Nevada Department of Education

Charting a Path Forward for Innovation

  • Accountability towards Equity: Developing Reciprocal Systems in Minnesota
    Virgel Hammonds, Aurora Institute; Jennifer Kabaker, Aurora Institute; Alul Yesak, Office of Public Charter Schools at Pillsbury United Communities; Zakariya Abullahi, Pillsbury United Communities; Larry McKenzie, Pillsbury United Communities
  • Coherence as the Foundation of Assessment Innovation
    Kristen Huff, Curriculum Associates; Ellen Forte, EdCount.com
  • Conflicting or Complementary? Reflections on the Impact of Federal Accountability on Public Charter Schools
    Christy Wolfe, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools; Charlie Barone, Democrats for Education Reform
  • Montana’s MAST Assessment: Benefits and Challenges of a Curriculum-Relevant Through-Year Assessment Model
    Julie Murgel, Montana Office of Public Instruction; Arthur VanderVeen, Kristopher John, Chris Gentile, Ourania Rotou and Jacelyn Spicer, New Meridian
  • Performance-Based Assessment Systems for Accountability: Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities
    Becky Kelley and Nikki Holland, MCIEA; Sara Christopherson, WebbAlign Program of the Wisconsin Center for Education Products and Services (WCEPS); Susan Lyons, Lyons Assessment Consulting; Julianna Charles Brown, KnowledgeWorks
  • Scaling Innovation through Concept, Implementation, & Ideation
    Trudy Clark, Nebraska Department of Education; Kelly Manning, Alaska Department of Education; Bailey Beach and Kellie Schmidt NWEA
  • Squaring the Circle – Finding reciprocity between Local, State, and Federal Accountability
    Doannie Tran and Jenny Poon, Center for Innovation in Education; Karen Perry, UK Center for Next Generation Leadership
  • Statewide Assessment Innovation at a Crossroads: Considering Paths Forward
    Susan Lyons, Lyons Assessment Consulting; Nathan Dadey, Center for Assessment; Kirsten Carr, Foresight Law + Policy; Cedar Rose, Montana Department of Education

From Insight to Action

  • Actionable Insights: Creating Proactive Pathways to Enhance Student Learning
    Michelle Odemwingie, Achievement Network
  • Assessing Brilliance: Feedforward Approaches for Next Generation Learners
    Tamara (TJ) Heck, Cognia; Jill Wertheim, WestEd; Stephen Pruitt, Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)
  • Bridging the Honesty Gap: Rebuilding Parent & Family Trust in Assessment and Accountability Systems
    Andy Rotherham, Virginia BoE; Dale Chu, Collaborative for Student Success; Alan Borusk, Marquette University Law School; Linda Jacobson, The74; Taslima Rahman, NCES
  • Community-Driven Accountability by Design: A Tale of Two Participatory Approaches to the Development of Measures of Conditions of Learning
    Amber Majors Ladipo, Village of Wisdom; ‘Malitšitso Moteane, Winston-Salem State University M.A.A.D. Lab
  • Data for Equity: The Promise and Challenge of Implementing Educational Equity Indicators
    Brennan Parton, Data Quality Campaign; Ashford Hughes, Metro Nashville Public Schools; Dan Farley, Oregon Department of Education
  • Death to Proficiency! Love Live Proficiency!
    Damian Betebenner, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment; Ron Sandlin, Indiana Department of Education
  • From Assessment Inventory to Audit to Action: Enhancing Assessment Literacy and Data Coordination for Improved Student Outcomes
    Dr. Cheryl Harmon, Cognia; Stephanie Snyder, DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education
  • The New Math: How New Methodologies Can Shape the Future of Assessment
    Temple Lovelace, Assessment for Good; Dr. Elizabeth Anderston, Embraced Wisdom Resource Group; Sasha Rabkin, AERDF
  • Unpacking SEA Capacity for Supporting Effective School Improvement
    Katie Carroll, (former) Virginia Department of Education; Anne Hyslop, All4Ed; Shayna Levitan, EdTrust; Nicholas Munyan-Penney, EdTrust

Learning & Application Labs

  • Community-Owned AI: Advancing Assessment Through Data Sovereignty
    Lisa Harmon- Martínez and Tony Monfiletto, Instituto Del Puente, Future Focused Education; Alexander Jacobson, Oforma AI
  • Data for Equity: How Summative Assessment Data are Supporting Equitable Decisions and Insights on Communicating These Uses with Families
    Nicholas Munyan- Penney, EdTrust; Ariel Taylor Smith, National Parent Union; Adam Ezring, Collaborative for Student Success
  • From Classrooms to Boardrooms: Partnering with the Business Community for the Future of Accountability
    Kyle Butler, US Chamber of Commerce Foundation; Christy Hovanetz, ExcelinEd; Duncan Robb, Waypoint Education Partners; Tim Cairl, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce; Kyle Baltuch, Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation
  • Harnessing AI Technology in Educational Assessment: The Future of Measuring Student and School Success
    Stephen Murphy, FocalPoint; Andy Middlestead, Michigan Department of Education; Will Lorie, Center for Assessment; Jill Abbott, Abbott Advisors Group; Christyan Mitchell, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
  • Inclusive Design as Policy Process: Innovating Understanding, Ownership, and Engagement in Allen County, KY
    Rita Harvey, Center for Innovation in Education; Karen Perry, University of Kentucky Center for Next Generation Leadership; Jenny Poon, Center for Innovation in Education
  • Leveraging AI to Reimagine Assessment and Accountability: Lessons Learned from Early Adopters
    Bree Dusseault, CRPE; Dr. Ángel Riviera, Mesquite Independent School District; Nick Zurlo, Crocus; Isabel Muñoz-Colon, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Maheen Soho, Quill.org
  • Mobilizing Around Shared Interests: Strategizing to Close the Gap Between Community and District Values and Priorities for Student Success
    Tracie Potochnik, The Center for Youth and Community Leadership in Education (CYCLE); Amber Majors Ladipo, Village of Wisdom
  • Post Pandemic Brain Changes: A Data-Driven Approach to Effective Intervention
    Nancy Weinstein, MindPrint Learning; Crystal Braswell, Little Rock School District

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