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Effective leadership and decision-making are instrumental to the success of school improvement projects. BRT works to improve teacher decision-making in three particular areas. From a norm-referenced view, we help teachers understand how students fit in groups. From a criterion-referenced view, we assist teachers in connecting learning with specific skills. And with an individual-referenced perspective, we provide teachers with analytic skills for monitoring student progress over time. These three perspectives are incorporated into a complementary model for decision-making that provides dynamic feedback to educators in a ‘just in time’ model supported within a learning community.

BRT works with state departments to extend statewide tests and ensure proper training for administration. We consider the use of accommodations in the standard test, the reduction of complexity for students taking alternate assessments judged against modified achievement standards (2%), and the reduction of breadth and depth for students taking the alternate assessment judged against alternate achievement standards (1%).

While many educators are highly focused on state tests, it is important to consider that over the course of a year, teachers can build in many opportunities to assess how students are learning and then use this information to make beneficial changes in instruction. These curriculum-based measures can lead to both diagnostic insights for identifying student needs as well as provide feedback loops for teachers to determine the effects of making instructional changes. An experimental model of instructional evaluation is the basis for decision-making.

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