K12 Measures

Helping education leaders make sense of schools’ vital signs and evidence of student learning

K12 Measures is an analytic support project of School Wise Press. Steve Rees, co-author of Mismeasuring Schools’ Vital Signs, started School Wise Press in 1998 and now leads its K12 Measures team. Co-author Jill Wynns is also a member of our team. We are ready to bring analytic support of two types to districts: measurement centered professional development and evidence building.

Professional development takes the form of workshops in measurement, aimed at site or district planning, instructional management, and evaluating and communicating schools’ and districts’ vital signs. We have a portfolio of workshop offerings which we’d be happy to share on request.

The evidence we build is designed for visual analysis. We also deliver high-touch guidance to help you explore its meaning. In California, we’re well prepared to build comparative evidence to help district teams create the measures for their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs). We custom-fit that evidence to highly similar districts and schools. We’re also prepared to help school leaders create the measures for their annual site plans. Outside California, we’re prepared to build evidence customized to your needs.

We also build evidence of student record-level data aimed at instructional improvement. Multiple measures viewed this way can reveal EL students ready for reclassification, lagging readers, and more. The analytic support we provide, together with evidence of higher quality, makes your team’s success most likely to occur.

Our clients’ comments about our work tell the story best. Read about the impact of our work with the Napa County Office of Education. Learn about the effect of our work with Morgan Hill USD in building internal capacity of their principals in creating better site plans.

The benefits you’ll enjoy include saving time (less wasted instructional effort), and greater harmony (less friction and fewer frustrated teachers and students). We do this by making smarter use of all available evidence, reorganized, framed in richer contexts, and expressed visually.

Please contact us to discuss your riddles, and the role of analytic support in solving them.