How to Avoid Misunderstanding, Misinterpreting and Distorting Data
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When Steve started School Wise Press in 1995, he was moved to make sense of schools’ vital signs. He built a team of professionals who were ready to interpret and visualize education data that districts were publishing to meet the requirements of the accountability era. In 14 years, his company has helped over 240 California district leaders tell their schools’ stories. In 2009, he launched an assessment consultancy, the Owl Corps. And in 2013, his team changed gears to help district and school leaders build higher quality evidence to improve their ability to plan and manage instruction more wisely.
Since 2016, he has enjoyed leading a professional development team to teach site and district leaders the measurement skills he has spent two decades developing. He has developed curriculum for workshops, and his writing has appeared in Education Week and EdSource, Mismeasuring Schools’ Vital Signs is his first book.
Jill is a distinguished leader in the work of district governance, having served as a trustee of San Francisco USD for 23 years. During that time, she became a leader in the California School Boards Association, and in 2012 was elected president.
Among the education organizations that have benefited from her guiding hand are the National School Boards Action Center Board; the California Cities, Counties and Schools Partnership, and the Council of Urban Boards of Education of NSBA. Her areas of expertise include school finance, urban education and governance, full-service community schools, charter schools, school health programs, healthy school food, and labor-management cooperation.
