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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…
College and Career Readiness Flow Chart
Back to A-GAME Documents College and Career Readiness Flow Chart The Los Angeles County Offce of Education (LACOE), in collaboration with two of the county’s authorized alternative charter schools, DaVinci RISE and the North Valley Military Institute, used the A-GAME process to add more college and career-ready opportunities than are currently recognized by the state in its…
Responsive Goals Directory
Back to A-GAME Documents Responsive Goals Directory Are you searching for responsive goals for student populations, national situtations, or changes in data availability? A-GAME will help you get back on your “A-GAME”. Over the 2020-2021 school year A-GAME worked with 10 charter school authorizers and their alternative education campuses (AECs) to create over 100 unique…
Interview with Theda Sampson
Back to A-GAME Videos More A-GAME Videos Shatter Barriers – Jim Goenner NACSACon 2024 A-GAME: Self-Reflect (Interview of Lindsey Omlar and Emily Gaskill) A-GAME: Building Relationship (Interview of Indra Ciccarelli) A-GAME: Measuring Student Quality (Interview of Joseph Escobedo, Ed.D.) A-GAME Convening – February 14, 2024 A-GAME: WestEd’s Indicators of Distress (Interview of Dr. Aimee Evan)…
Interview with Erin Anderson
Back to A-GAME Videos Use National Data Not Found Anywhere Else! More A-GAME Videos Shatter Barriers – Jim Goenner NACSACon 2024 A-GAME: Self-Reflect (Interview of Lindsey Omlar and Emily Gaskill) A-GAME: Building Relationship (Interview of Indra Ciccarelli) A-GAME: Measuring Student Quality (Interview of Joseph Escobedo, Ed.D.) A-GAME Convening – February 14, 2024 A-GAME: WestEd’s Indicators…
Interview with Rashida Young
Back to A-GAME Videos Create Better Academic Goals! More A-GAME Videos Shatter Barriers – Jim Goenner NACSACon 2024 A-GAME: Self-Reflect (Interview of Lindsey Omlar and Emily Gaskill) A-GAME: Building Relationship (Interview of Indra Ciccarelli) A-GAME: Measuring Student Quality (Interview of Joseph Escobedo, Ed.D.) A-GAME Convening – February 14, 2024 A-GAME: WestEd’s Indicators of Distress (Interview…
Interview with Ron Rizzo
Back to A-GAME Videos The Resources Alone are Amazing! More A-GAME Videos Shatter Barriers – Jim Goenner NACSACon 2024 A-GAME: Self-Reflect (Interview of Lindsey Omlar and Emily Gaskill) A-GAME: Building Relationship (Interview of Indra Ciccarelli) A-GAME: Measuring Student Quality (Interview of Joseph Escobedo, Ed.D.) A-GAME Convening – February 14, 2024 A-GAME: WestEd’s Indicators of Distress…
Join the A-GAME
Back to A-GAME Videos Join the A-GAME Community More A-GAME Videos Shatter Barriers – Jim Goenner NACSACon 2024 A-GAME: Self-Reflect (Interview of Lindsey Omlar and Emily Gaskill) A-GAME: Building Relationship (Interview of Indra Ciccarelli) A-GAME: Measuring Student Quality (Interview of Joseph Escobedo, Ed.D.) A-GAME Convening – February 14, 2024 A-GAME: WestEd’s Indicators of Distress (Interview…
Interview with Sean Stalling
Back to A-GAME Videos A-GAME Partner — DeLaSalle Education Center More A-GAME Videos Shatter Barriers – Jim Goenner NACSACon 2024 A-GAME: Self-Reflect (Interview of Lindsey Omlar and Emily Gaskill) A-GAME: Building Relationship (Interview of Indra Ciccarelli) A-GAME: Measuring Student Quality (Interview of Joseph Escobedo, Ed.D.) A-GAME Convening – February 14, 2024 A-GAME: WestEd’s Indicators of…
How A-GAME can work with all schools
Back to A-GAME Videos In How A-GAME can Work with All Schools, school leaders of alternative education campuses respond to the question on how all schools should be measured. They discuss that each school has a different mission, course offering, and approach and that this should be considered when evaluating the school’s impact. More A-GAME…
Why A-GAME and its Impact
Back to A-GAME Videos Hear from school leaders about the impact A-GAME has had on their relationship with their authorizer, their ability to align their accountability goals with staff goals and to finally have charter goals that measure what matters. More A-GAME Videos Shatter Barriers – Jim Goenner NACSACon 2024 A-GAME: Self-Reflect (Interview of Lindsey…
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…
College and Career Readiness Flow Chart
Back to A-GAME Documents College and Career Readiness Flow Chart The Los Angeles County Offce of Education (LACOE), in collaboration with two of the county’s authorized alternative charter schools, DaVinci RISE and the North Valley Military Institute, used the A-GAME process to add more college and career-ready opportunities than are currently recognized by the state in its…
Responsive Goals Directory
Back to A-GAME Documents Responsive Goals Directory Are you searching for responsive goals for student populations, national situtations, or changes in data availability? A-GAME will help you get back on your “A-GAME”. Over the 2020-2021 school year A-GAME worked with 10 charter school authorizers and their alternative education campuses (AECs) to create over 100 unique…
Interview with Theda Sampson
Back to A-GAME Videos More A-GAME Videos Shatter Barriers – Jim Goenner NACSACon 2024 A-GAME: Self-Reflect (Interview of Lindsey Omlar and Emily Gaskill) A-GAME: Building Relationship (Interview of Indra Ciccarelli) A-GAME: Measuring Student Quality (Interview of Joseph Escobedo, Ed.D.) A-GAME Convening – February 14, 2024 A-GAME: WestEd’s Indicators of Distress (Interview of Dr. Aimee Evan)…
Interview with Erin Anderson
Back to A-GAME Videos Use National Data Not Found Anywhere Else! More A-GAME Videos Shatter Barriers – Jim Goenner NACSACon 2024 A-GAME: Self-Reflect (Interview of Lindsey Omlar and Emily Gaskill) A-GAME: Building Relationship (Interview of Indra Ciccarelli) A-GAME: Measuring Student Quality (Interview of Joseph Escobedo, Ed.D.) A-GAME Convening – February 14, 2024 A-GAME: WestEd’s Indicators…
Interview with Rashida Young
Back to A-GAME Videos Create Better Academic Goals! More A-GAME Videos Shatter Barriers – Jim Goenner NACSACon 2024 A-GAME: Self-Reflect (Interview of Lindsey Omlar and Emily Gaskill) A-GAME: Building Relationship (Interview of Indra Ciccarelli) A-GAME: Measuring Student Quality (Interview of Joseph Escobedo, Ed.D.) A-GAME Convening – February 14, 2024 A-GAME: WestEd’s Indicators of Distress (Interview…
Interview with Ron Rizzo
Back to A-GAME Videos The Resources Alone are Amazing! More A-GAME Videos Shatter Barriers – Jim Goenner NACSACon 2024 A-GAME: Self-Reflect (Interview of Lindsey Omlar and Emily Gaskill) A-GAME: Building Relationship (Interview of Indra Ciccarelli) A-GAME: Measuring Student Quality (Interview of Joseph Escobedo, Ed.D.) A-GAME Convening – February 14, 2024 A-GAME: WestEd’s Indicators of Distress…
Join the A-GAME
Back to A-GAME Videos Join the A-GAME Community More A-GAME Videos Shatter Barriers – Jim Goenner NACSACon 2024 A-GAME: Self-Reflect (Interview of Lindsey Omlar and Emily Gaskill) A-GAME: Building Relationship (Interview of Indra Ciccarelli) A-GAME: Measuring Student Quality (Interview of Joseph Escobedo, Ed.D.) A-GAME Convening – February 14, 2024 A-GAME: WestEd’s Indicators of Distress (Interview…
Interview with Sean Stalling
Back to A-GAME Videos A-GAME Partner — DeLaSalle Education Center More A-GAME Videos Shatter Barriers – Jim Goenner NACSACon 2024 A-GAME: Self-Reflect (Interview of Lindsey Omlar and Emily Gaskill) A-GAME: Building Relationship (Interview of Indra Ciccarelli) A-GAME: Measuring Student Quality (Interview of Joseph Escobedo, Ed.D.) A-GAME Convening – February 14, 2024 A-GAME: WestEd’s Indicators of…
How A-GAME can work with all schools
Back to A-GAME Videos In How A-GAME can Work with All Schools, school leaders of alternative education campuses respond to the question on how all schools should be measured. They discuss that each school has a different mission, course offering, and approach and that this should be considered when evaluating the school’s impact. More A-GAME…
Why A-GAME and its Impact
Back to A-GAME Videos Hear from school leaders about the impact A-GAME has had on their relationship with their authorizer, their ability to align their accountability goals with staff goals and to finally have charter goals that measure what matters. More A-GAME Videos Shatter Barriers – Jim Goenner NACSACon 2024 A-GAME: Self-Reflect (Interview of Lindsey…
