Prioritizing School Security – Think Different, Not More.

In today’s world, safety and security in schools is paramount, but the key for school leaders is to think differently about what strategies best serve their environment versus continuously adopting the latest trends. Watch Institute President & CEO Jim Goenner as he talks to Mark Paliszewski, Managing Director at Recon Management Group LLC, about how school leadership can be strategically…
A-GAME: Better Measurements for Schools

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Don’t Get Caught Off Guard – Know where your schools are financially

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Job Opening: Epicenter Partner Support Specialist

The National Charter Schools Institute is seeking an experienced, high functioning, results-oriented Epicenter Partner Support Specialist to join our team. This person will help us develop and grow a dynamic array of tools and services strategically designed to strengthen performance and productivity in the education sector and across the organization. The ideal candidate will have…
How do you measure SEL?

Back to A-GAME Videos The A-GAME Convened at NACSA in October 2022 to discuss the role of academic oversight to incentivize schools to create not only good mathematicians and readers but also financially literate, socially mobile, and thoughtful citizens. Listen to the ideas shared by some of the most thoughtful leaders in education today. More…
What are the Intangibles of Amazing Schools?

Back to A-GAME Videos The A-GAME Convened at NACSA in October 2022 to discuss the role of academic oversight to incentivize schools to create not only good mathematicians and readers but also financially literate, socially mobile, and thoughtful citizens. Listen to the ideas shared by some of the most thoughtful leaders in education today. More…
What Role Should Testing Play Today?

Back to A-GAME Videos The A-GAME Convened at NACSA in October 2022 to discuss the role of academic oversight to incentivize schools to create not only good mathematicians and readers but also financially literate, socially mobile, and thoughtful citizens. Listen to the ideas shared by some of the most thoughtful leaders in education today. More…
Meet the 2022 NACSA Panelists

Back to A-GAME Videos The A-GAME Convened at NACSA in October 2022 to discuss the role of academic oversight to incentivize schools to create not only good mathematicians and readers but also financially literate, socially mobile, and thoughtful citizens. Listen to the ideas shared by some of the most thoughtful leaders in education today. More…
Authorizing for All Community – Create Better Schools

Join our Community and change your practice by working with other authorizing professionals who are committed to creating better schools for ALL students by designing authorizing practices that are transparent, community-driven, rigorous, and inclusive for all. Whether you are fully immersed in Design Thinking and have attended our previous Authorizing for All sessions, or are…

Supplementing, Not Replacing: How Multiple Measures Work – By NACSA

See what NACSA has to say about A-GAME, in their article “Supplementing, Not Replacing: How Multiple Measures Work” Read Article!
A-GAME Community – Measure What Matters

The A-GAME Community is now welcoming new members! It took a country overcome by a pandemic, divided by politics, and distracted by social media for many of us to realize that schools are responsible for much more than teaching reading, writing and math. Charter school authorizers have the opportunity to influence how schools support their…
Assessing an AEC for Renewal

Back to A-GAME Documents Assessing an AEC for Renewal This rubric provides an example of how authorizers can assess an application to renew an alternative charter, and is consistent with the guidance and recommendations put forth in the A-GAME’s Measuring Quality: A Resource Guide for Authorizers and Alternative Schools. Download PDF Join an Engaging Community!…
Evaluating a New AEC Applicant

Back to A-GAME Documents Evaluating a New AEC Applicant This rubric provides examples of how authorizers can rate applications to open an alternative charter school and is consistent with the guidance and recommendations put forth in the A-GAME’s Measuring Quality: A Resource Guide for Authorizers and Alternative Schools. Download PDF Join an Engaging Community! More…
Measuring Quality

Back to A-GAME Documents Measuring Quality: A Resource Guide for Authorizers and Alternative Schools For charter school authorizers, alternative education campuses can be a challenge, as students tend to be highly mobile, are chronically absent, and are often years behind in academic learning. Therefore, data is scarce and not reflective of all students enrolled by…
Introducing the A-GAME: New Ways of Measuring Quality

Back to A-GAME Videos With traditional assessments unavailable, authorizers and schools are looking for new ways to measure quality. Join a session to learn about the Advancing Great Authorizing and Modeling Excellence (A-GAME) initiative on creating responsive goals based on student population. Focusing on alternative education campuses, 50 authorizers collaborated over the past year to…
Minding the Gap

Back to A-GAME Documents Minding the Gap: How State Policies Can Create Conditions for Innovation in Alternative Education Accountability Minding the Gap is a resource to help state education agencies, charter school authorizers, leaders of alternative education campuses, policy-makers, and researchers understand how states are balancing the demand for rigorous public accountability with the diversity…
Better Goals. More Learning.

Back to A-GAME Documents Better Goals. More Learning. Using Student (re)Engagement Levels to Create Meaningful Goals and Measures A-GAME originally set out focusing exclusively on measuring the quality of alternative education campuses (or AECs). Members joined as they were frustrated by accountability systems that rely on traditional measures, because they don’t tell the whole story. Schools…
Workforce Readiness Evaluation Rubric

Back to A-GAME Documents Workforce Readiness Evaluation Rubric This tool was developed by New Legacy Charter School in collaboration with the Colorado Charter Schools Institute and A-GAME and can be used as a student self-evaluation, advisor observation, and a worksite evaluation tool. As a workforce readiness evaluation tool, the rubric can evaluate how students feel…